Which means it’s almost Ben’s birthday, then it’s almost Thanksgiving, then it’s almost the end of the semester, our anniversary, and Christmas! This is always an exciting time of year for me. Yay for fall and pretty colors, too.

While I’m here, how’s about a quickie weekend wrapup-type update? Continue reading →

Best thing I’ve seen all week (found near Mechanicsville). Until this, that is:

I’m sure it would be overwhelming for both you and me if I tried to cover all the intricate workings of my life in the past month, so permit me to simply skim some of the highlights (or you can just check out some photos), which will most likely primarily involve weekends, because that is when I do more interesting things. (If you are truly interested in hearing me drone on about Composition Theory, workshop-speak, why I’ll probably never write another sestina, or the challenges of working with English-language-learners or unmotivated freshmen in the Writing Center, buy me a drink or something and I’m sure I’ll have plenty to say about any combination of those things. But this doesn’t seem the place for that.) Continue reading →

I realize this is a paltry showing as my first post in nigh on a month, but I’m ankle-deep in drafting a 15-page paper for Composition Theory (yes, it’s a mind-numbing as it sounds) — of which paper I have thus far written the line “Good college writing is” — so I can’t stay long. I simply had to hop on here and announce the following: Gas in Richmond (specifically, at the FasMart on East Main) is below $3 a gallon! I don’t even need gas right now, but this seems rather monumental in my mind. I honestly did not believe I would ever see gasoline for less than three bucks again in my lifetime. But there it is. Yep. You probably didn’t hear it here first, but I felt the need to make note of it. For my next post perhaps I will break the space-time continuum.