annoying teenagers, going to bookstores these are a few of my favorite things....

well, i must say that i woke up feeling a tad bit sorry for myself



i was feeling weighed down



walking underwater



slow and labored



but only me



everything and everyone around me was moving



normally which appeared to be fast to me...



however as i was walking across the quad to teach my 10 a.m. class



i was surrounded by teenage joggers



yep...some intellectually gifted track coach must have thought that it



would be a good idea to set a bunch of teenage joggers loose on the



quad during peak time...



and these kids would hardly move out of the way



hogging up the sidewalk and expecting people to move



for them



i didn't move though because



1) i was annoyed



2) i was still feeling heavy



3) i was annoyed



although it did give me some kind of sadistic pleasure to make them



move...and i think some of them even pouted....nothing says

have a bright and sunny day than

a tennager's distain...



after class i was talking to a student



and i spilled an almost full dunkin donuts coffee



on a desk and consequently the floor...



fyi: that stuff is a bitch to clean up



after i finished up with that fiasco i decided to go to borders



bookstores always give me a sense of peace...i like them



i like to be surrounded by words...potential stories....



there is always a sense of discovery whenever i go into a bookstore



and discover i did



i found a memoir/illustrated book by chip kidd (the famous book designer)




while i was leafing through...taking in the images i saw this....


wendy brown's book!!! i love wendy brown and this book is not only an important piece

of scholarship it is also a book that changes lives

well mine anyways...

if i ever get published or better yet become the kind of scholar that

would get me chip kidd to design the cover of my book

i would be overwhelmed by the sheer awesomeness of it

seriously...it wouldn't have to be that great of a text

because good or terrible, boring or pithy...

chip kidd would certainly make your text sound better

after i was finished browsing that book i meandered over to

the psychology...actually the death and dying section...

i know grief but i still feel lost...so i picked up this book:





and i read a little...

very practical and lois ackner's writing is quite good

but something in me was not interested in getting it or reading any further

dissatisfied...slow...labored

maybe another book will call to me

or maybe a poem...

i just don't know