Bons mots

  • "We live as though the world were what it should be, to show it what it can be."
    ~ Angel, "Deep Down," Season 4

  • It is difficult
    to get the news from poems
    yet men die miserably every day
    for lack
    of what is found there.
    ~ William Carlos Williams, from “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower”
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December 07, 2007

It's the little things ...

Today one of the buildings & grounds folks at Fabulous Girls' School moved my clock to the opposite wall of my classroom. Now I, rather than my students, can easily look at the clock during class, unlike the previous set-up in which my students gazed at time's passing while I had to crane my neck to see it. What a difference! This one change will do more for my teaching than anything else I can think of.

Plus, going jesus is gracing us with her second Cavalcade of Bad Nativities, a glorious collection of Christmas schmaltz with commentary guaranteed to bring a chuckle. (Okay, it's often a horrified chuckle -- "I can't believe someone is actually marketing this!" -- but funny nonetheless.) This year's Cavalcade has just gotten started and already features a leprechaun nativity (with the added comment: "King Herod's always after me lucky charms")! I highly recommend your heading over there right now and checking back regularly, no matter your religious proclivities. While you're at it, check out last year's edition as well, not to mention her collection Angels We Have Heard Are High.

It's the little things ...

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My mother owns one of those. Seriously. I'm not saying which one, but it's the one I find least objectionable ...

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Who is this What Now?

  • I'm an English teacher who recently made the move to teaching at a wonderful high school (the justly famous Fabulous Girls' School, or FGS), having suffered for several years at a horrible college (the infamous St. Martyr's). Life is good.

    I am partner to D. We live in a new-to-us house in Adventure City, where we manage to have relatively few adventures. Two cats -- the Muse and the Contemplative -- live with us and keep life at home plenty adventurous.

    I'm also something of a lapsed Episcopalian at the moment. Too much church damage over the last few years has made me anxious and fretful about church. I miss being part of a worshiping community and need to do something about this, but I'm not sure what.

    I'm slightly neurotic but in a quirky, charming way. Or so I tell myself. And I'm a big fan of blogging, through which I've met wonderful people I'm proud to call friends.

    Email me at whatnowblogger at yahoo dot com.

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