2003-02-11 - 4:56 p.m.
I have been putting this off all day.
Not sure why, other than I just don�t feel like writing. But I have to�skipping out is not an option.
See I have this small problem, it is very easy for me to fall out of a routine if I am not vigilant. Then it takes 10 times the effort to get back into the routine. Love my ADD. No really�I do.
Last night was a rare treat for me. I got to listen to Henry Rollins rant and rage for 3 hours last night. This is now the second time that I have gotten the chance to see this fellah perform (spoken word), and hopefully not the last. (The first time I saw him was at Va Tech)
He is a truly amazing speaker and an amazing person�I have never seen someone so driven, so intense, so angry�except FoxPhotog maybe. But I think even he would have a hard time keeping up with Henry.
Henry speaks about things that many folks are scared to say or see. And he pulls no punches. He asks the hard questions that we think about but are often to scared to pursue. He addresses social issues that we all to often choose to over look or ignore. He forces you to think for yourself. In fact, sometimes I think he makes some of those harsh inflammatory caustic statements just so that you question yourself and your beliefs. He tries to force you to step back and think for yourself if even just for a moment.
But the entire time that he is trying to rip the blinders off your face and make you look at the world around you, he is also attempting to make things a bit more palatable with a healthy sprinkle of humor.
If you ever get the chance, I highly recommend that you go see this fellah.
Todays classes started off poorly. It turns out that I had prepared the wrong weeks lessons. Ugh�but to make things worse, my intro presentation that I have loaded on all the lab computers have been so nicely removed for me by the shits in automation�without telling me. God I am so really to get out of this place. I really am. It�s funny how much less I am able to tolerate this shit now that I am looking to leave. Everyday is a test�everyday I just want to throw up my arms and say FUCK THIS retarded dysfunctional Library System. Arrggghhhh!
On a good note, I got to talk to the Bossman yesterday�and I have been informed that word has come down from on high that he needs to find a way to let the slack assed children�s specialist go. Seems that the Director got word of the �noise� that she had been trying to spread about me in the system, and the director became enraged. Hehehe�guess it helps that I have a file full of nothing but praise and compliments from my students saying how wonderful I am and shit. So the long and the short of it is I get to help (cause Bossman is so rarely here) in finding something that we can use as grounds to fire her. Hehehe�told you ya shouldn�t poke Bears with sticks.
Did I mention that I had a deaf student today. Yeah, a deaf student�who can�t read lips and who did not have her hearing aid, and does not know how to sign (not that it would have mattered, cause I can�t sign either). HOW in the Fuck am I supposed to teach this woman? So I spent 2.5 hours today TALKING AS LOUD AS I COULD�just so this lady could sortta hear me. Now my voice hurts. Bah�
Well that�s it for today. I have to go relive the desk�and kill off the last half hour of work.
Take care world�and I promise I will tell ya what I learned tomorrow.
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