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bibbumblebee · 3 years

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If I posted an excerpt of a fic I’m writing about Stardew Valley’s Elliott, would it motivate me to write to it more? There’s a supreme lack of Elliott fic, and that needs to change!

(Probably should note in includes two original characters: Charlotte and Levi.)

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In his anxiousness to be on time to meet Charlotte, Elliott wound up being twenty-five minutes early. Instead of waiting inside the Stardrop, he chose to stand outside under the streetlamp, hoping that Charlotte wouldn’t think he’d been waiting too long. It wasn’t his fault, not really. He took his time getting ready, but he’d started getting ready just after lunch; his brain was too hectic to write. Every time he sat down at his desk to pen a line or correct an older passage, his thoughts turned to her, and he found himself staring at his papers for minutes on end. Daydreaming.

How had he not noticed it before? He was taken by her.

He leaned against the cool metal lamp post and smiled at Marnie as she made her way up the lane. She waved, said something, and disappeared inside the saloon. Elliott must have said something to her, but what? He hadn’t been paying attention. He hoped it hadn’t been rude.

He wasn’t sure when he first fell for Charlotte. It must have been recently, otherwise he would have noticed sooner. Right? It couldn’t have been from the very start, when he caught her sitting on the dock, bare feet pointed toward the water, sketchbook propped in her lap. He hadn’t even formally met her at that time; he’d only seen her from the shoreline, watched the way her dark curls rippled around her face in the sea breeze. Admired how smooth her skin was in the cool blue ocean air. She hadn’t noticed him then, and he’d retreated to his cabin to write. He didn’t go over and say hello, so he couldn’t have fallen for her then.

But then why did he remember that day so vividly? Why did Leah question him the moment she saw him that evening if not because she could see it in his eyes? She had told him he belonged to her, after all. He’d always belong to her.

I’ve got you, she’d said. And I don’t want to let go.

When they first met, Elliott adored that possessiveness. After so many years of belonging to no one, and having no one to belong to, Leah made him feel whole and wanted. Now he wasn’t so sure how he felt about her. All he knew was that when Leah touched him, he thought of Charlotte. Her hand on his wrist. Her soft breath in his ear.

He hugged himself in a sudden chill. Whatever Charlotte had done to him, whether by breath or touch, didn’t mean anything. She’d never said a word to denote how she felt about him, beyond her general concern for his wellbeing. She never said she wanted him or cared for him explicitly or anything of the sort, and so Elliott couldn’t be sure. He was a writer. He needed words. He needed her words.

In a rush, he was reminded of Leah, hair wild, eyes wide, cornering him in her bedroom.

Listen, she’d said, it’s you and me, remember? Where are you right now?

What? He’d said, even though he knew the question well.

In your head. Where are you?

He couldn’t tell her where he really was. He was on the beach, sitting in the light of a late-night fire, toes buried in the sand. He was reading poetry to Charlotte, who sat next to him, eyes trained on his mouth. She had such expressive eyes, glowing and blue like fairy-lights in a garden. Even though he could never tell what she was thinking, he could often read emotion in her face, could sense her moods like weather on his skin. And even though she wouldn’t suggest one way or another how she felt about him, in his head, he knew quite well: She wanted him, just like he wanted her. Because he did want her. And he feared Leah knew that, could tell in the way he shied away from her, made excuses, hid himself away.

I was thinking about my cabin, he said. It wasn’t wholly a lie.

You’re not at your cabin, she replied. You’re with me.

I know.

You belong here with me.

I know.

We just work so well together, don’t you think? Her voice grew soft, just like it always did. I don’t think you could be with anybody else.

His voice grew soft, just like it always did. I know.

So stay.

I’ll stay.

But when they returned to bed, and he finally heard her fall back asleep, his mind had wandered away again, back to the beach. If he ran, he’d be able to steal a few minutes alone on the shore, or write poetry by the quiet hum of the ocean.

Instead, he turned on his side and watched the shadows grow longer across the floor.

It was a memory that came to him often, although he wasn’t sure when it happened. More specifically, it happened so often that he couldn’t be sure which time he was thinking about. He sighed and looked at his watch, taking a deep breath to slow his breathing. He still had ten minutes before Charlotte was supposed to be here.

Maybe I should just go, he thought. He’d only asked Charlotte out tonight because he knew Leah would be gone. At least, she’d said she would be. There was an exhibit in Zuzu this weekend. The moment she’d told him that, he fabricated some excuse to stay in Pelican Town (something about revising his novel in the quiet, even though he had no novel to revise), and however he’d said it must have convinced her.

Still, to be going behind her back…

Behind her back? Elliott watched the second hand tick around the face of his watch before glancing upward down the shadowy lane. We were never exclusive. And by exclusive, he meant they weren’t dating at all. She took him everywhere with him, forced him along to her events and insisted he sit with her, talk to her, stay with her, always stay with her.

But she’d never called him by anything except his name.

Besides, this wasn’t a date, what he was doing with Charlotte. It was getting drinks and listening to music. It was two friends catching up. Nothing more. Nothing less.

He heard footsteps on the cobblestone, and from the shadows he saw two figures emerge. Levi strode forward, his shoulders broad in a snug shirt. He smiled when he saw Elliott, his face easing open like a garden gate.

“Hey Elliott,” he said. “Glad you’re here.”

Elliott wasn’t sure why Levi would be glad. Just before he could reply, or ask why he was happy to see him, Levi stepped inside the saloon and disappeared.

In his wake came another figure. Charlotte.

Elliott’s breath caught in his throat.

Whatever words Levi had just said left his mind. All he could see was her. She wore a black dress that hugged her waist and curved in a heart-shaped neckline. She tugged a lavender cardigan tighter over her shoulders as she stood in the yellow light. A strand of hair had fallen loose from its twist, and Elliott watched as she tucked it behind her ear.

“Hi,” she said.

It took him a moment to reply. “Hi.”

She looked so small, hugging herself in the evening chill. Elliott stood up straight, his back stiff from leaning so long against the lamp post.

“Have you been waiting long?” she asked.

“No,” he said.

He would have waited all day for her.

#stardew valley #stardew elliott #stardew valley elliott #sdv elliott #sdv farmer #stardew farmer #stardew fanfic #sdv fanfic #elliott needs more love #like seriously no one writes about him #it’s a headcanon that Leah is lowkey possessive because she’s scared of getting hurt again don’t @ me

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shesey · 3 years

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Excerpts from “She came to stay” by Simone de Beauvoir | Part 1

“She exercised that power: her presence snatched things from their unconsciousness; she gave then their colour, their smell.” “She alone evoked the significance of these abandoned places, of these slumbering things. She was there and they belonged to her. The world belonged to her.” “At this moment she did not in the least regret that Pierre was not beside her: there were some joys she could not know when he was with her; all the joys of solitude.” “I’d like to think that the whole world is asleep, that at this moment you and I are the only living souls on earth.” “I feel calmer now, because I’m convinced that wherever I may go, the rest of the world will move with me. That’s what keeps me from having any regrets. Regrets for what? Said Gerbert. Having to live only in my own skin when the world is so vast.” “It amazes Elizabeth that I’m not ambitious; but that’s precisely why. I don’t want to try to cut out a special place for myself in the world. I feel that I am already in it.” “Where others only saw an impenetrable jungle, Pierre saw a virgin future which was his to shape as he chose. That was the secret of this strength.” “The truth is that I enjoy the early stages. You don’t understand that? Perhaps, said Francoise, but I would not be interested in an affaire which had no continuity.” “If they were not mentioned, it was almost as if they had not existed at all, and this allowed a shameful subterranean vegetation to grow up under the surface of true existence where she felt utterly alone and in danger of suffocation.” “How easy it was to live a full life in a world that held both the ruins at Delphi and the bare Provencal hillsides, as well as this congeries of humanity!” “Each one of these men, each one of these women present here tonight was completely absorbed in living a moment of his or her insignificant existence.” “No longer was she conscious of risk, or hope, or fear; only of this happiness over which she did not even have control.” “Imprisoned in happiness.” “After all, nothing obliged her to resume her work the very next day. It was slightly absurd to spend hour after hour here without dancing, without speaking to a soul, but if one set one’s mind to it there was a fascination to be found in this kind of self-absorption.” “But this yard, cluttered with old stage sets, had lost none of its poetry by becoming an everyday sight.” “Sexual faithfulness is perfectly ridiculous. It leads to pure slavery. I don’t understand how you can tolerate it.” “Nonsense. You’re not going to tell me that it’s never happened to you to feel desire for a man. You’re talking like all the people who won’t admit they have prejudices. They pretend they are subject to them as a matter of personal choice. But that’s just so much nonsense.” “Beautiful things are not easily created. The more precious they are, the more work they require.” “I didn’t say this work was beautiful. I know that beauty lies only in the completed work, but I find it thrilling to watch the transition from the formless to the pure and completed state.” “She only has you and she’s very fond of you. That can’t be much fun.” “Why do people always have to drag so much dead weight about with them? Look, said Pierre, time isn’t made up of a heap of little separate bits into which you can shut yourself up in turn. When you think you’re living purely in the present, you’re involving your future, whether you like it or not.” “I’m very envious of your capacity to feel things so strongly. I understand our putting a higher value on that than anything else.” “If she spoke of it to Pierre, it would become a disquieting and gripping reality instead of a fleeting mood. Thenceforth, he would have to bear it in mind even when she herself attached no importance to it.” “His heart was hidden; that hand on his sleeve could be seen by every eye in the theatre.... but for whom does it really exist, this love that exists between us? At this moment, even she did not believe in it, nothing remained of it anywhere in the whole of existence.” “I wanted to give you more than you were prepared to accept. And, if one is sincere, to give is a way of insisting on some return.” “If he was suffering, she would suffer too.” “The day when I no longer feel anything, I’m not going to look for excuses to feel.” “I admit that people should write. There’s something voluptuous about words. But only when the spirit moves you.” “This separateness hurt her cruelly, but nothing would induce her to set food on this slippery slop of the imagination at the bottom of which yawned she knew not what abyss.” “You’re sensitive and intelligent - gifts that are not everyone’s. They’re trump cards.” “She was wrong to depend so entirely on Pierre: that was a real mistake, she ought not to thrust responsibility for herself upon someone else.” “Things had barely changed during the past twenty years, the atmosphere was oppressive. Whenever Francoise came back to this flat, she felt that all those years had led absolutely nowhere: time was spread all around her in a quiet, stagnant pool. To live was to grow old, nothing more.” “By always avoiding questions of principle, she could easily come to a kind of understanding with her parents.” “She had the painful impression of being in exile. In the ordinary way, the centre of Paris was wherever she happened to be. Today, everything had changed.” “Anguish pierced her: it was not a definite pain, she would have to delve very deep into the past to unearth a similar uneasiness.” “What had happened now was that the present world was out of reach; not only was she exiled from Paris, she was exiled from the whole world. The people who were sitting on the terrace, the people who were walking in the street, were insubstantial, were shadows; the houses were nothing but painted black-clothes with no depth.” “Love was surely less simple than he thought. It was stronger than time, nevertheless it existed in time, and from instant to instant, it was the cause of misgivings, self-denial, and minor despondencies.” “And when you begin to question a decision, it’s always disturbing. Xaviere is a living question mark.” “Introspection is tiring. It’s dangerous... She would have had to re-examine everything from the beginning but that required a superhuman strength.” “Whatever you may say about life, it always seems to me to be just so many words.” “Long periods of boredom punctuated by short bursts of pleasure seemed completely natural to him.” “There was nothing anywhere to envy, or to regret, or to fear. The past, the future, love, unhappiness, were no more than a sound made with the mouth.” “How could her exact tone of voice, the scent of her room at that moment, be described? Words could bring you nearer the mystery, but without making it any less impenetrable; it only masked the heart in a more chilling shadow.” “If she now so often felt estranged from Pierre, it was because she had allowed him to progress alone down these paths of admiration and affection.” “It was a little frightening. In his tender phrases, his affectionate gestures, she saw only an intention of kindness. they were not wholly convincing, they did not register properly... could her doubting ever again be stopped?” “But these were only words; they were two separate persons... the result of her blind trust was that she suddenly found herself facing a stranger.” “But if you study her with a little sympathy you’ll perceive in all that a clumsy attempt to give a definite value to her life and to herself as a person. Even her respect for the social formulas - marriage, fame -- is still a form of this anxiety.” “Isn’t there any country where people can do as they like? No... you’re cornered.” (pg 145-146) “If I could have her to myself, I would love her. This domineering little girl, too, was nothign more than a tiny fragment of the warm, defenceless world.” “She would have to make up her mind once and for all to face up to all the changes that had taken plcae; for days and days now her thoughts had a tinger of bitterness... ‘I want to see clearly’”.

“...there were so many thoughts that she now kept to herself.” “... they must above all pay more attention to each other at every moment.” “Up to now, when she thought: We are separate, that separation was still a mutual misfortune that struck both of them, and that together they would remedy. Now she understood: to be separate was to live out teh separation alone.” “She felt that they dreaded the moment of departure, but that they found no pleasure in staying on there.”

#simone de beauvoir #she came to stay

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adasttrawrites · 4 years

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The Alcove - A Year in the Countryside Prequel

Excerpt from Chapter 6: Soul

Saturday - 20th January 1997

It was another night of silence. Draco asked her to stay, and she did. He sat next to her with his eyes shut and she listened to their breathing settle into a rhythm. Something was different today. Things had…shifted in their relationship. They weren’t just strangers meeting in the night anymore; it was more than that. There was no discomfort or awkwardness. Even in the quiet darkness, it was peaceful.

Her heart ached because she knew something was wrong. She knew that she was straddling the line of danger and that things were changing. Draco was in trouble. She had to find out what was wrong. Soon. For now, they could just sit together and be at peace.

Sunday - 21st January 1997

Draco felt her hand press against his knee in a manner that was now familiar. She sat next to him, a book on her lap.

“Bored of me already?”

She laughed, her fingers softly brushing over the cover of the thin book in a reverent, Hermione Granger way. He pried it from her grasp and turned it over to read the title.

“I brought it in case you wanted to sit in silence. I—,” she hesitated so he looked up at her, nodding for her to continue, “This place is so peaceful. I thought it would be nice to read.”

“Why do you come up here?”

“What?”

His head was hurting today so he couldn’t reach into her mind with ease, and decided to take the night off from snooping. He could go back to invading her privacy tomorrow night.

“Why do you bother spending an hour with me every night? Surely you have better things to do with your time.”

There was silence between them as she thought over his question.

“Because,” she finally said, giving him a smile, “I like being here with you.”

It turned out he didn’t need to read her mind, because, in true Hermione form, she was as honest and open as one of her books. It made his heart stutter but he masked it with feigned indifference.

“You do?” He couldn’t hide the scepticism in his voice. She shrugged, before lifting her eyes to look out the window.

“Also, I don’t really like to be in my room. Lavender is in the same dorm as me, and I don’t enjoy her company.”

“I don’t blame you, she’s an annoying bint.” Draco opened the book and thumbed through the pages, smiling when he heard Hermione’s reluctant chuckle. “Pablo Neruda. Who is he?”

“A poet.”

“Do you like poetry?”

“No, Draco. I’ve read and reread this book a thousand times because I hate poetry.”

His name in her lilting voice made him smile and the book fell open to a page that was worn thin by time and use. The spine was so threadbare that the book stayed open with no help from him.

“Is this your favourite?”

“What?”

“This poem. ‘Tonight I Can Write…’, you like it, don’t you?”

“Well,” she was frowning, unsure of where he was going with this question, “yes, I suppose. It means a lot to me.”

“Would you like me to read it?” He didn’t know why he was asking. It spilt from his mouth without authorisation from his brain.

“Oh, I—,”

“Yes or no, Granger.” Well, he had no choice now.

“Yes.”

He cleared his throat and began to recite...

MORE IN THIS UNIVERSE:

A Year in the Countryside

Letters

#nztina #a year in the countryside #a year in the countryside letters #a year in the countryside prequel #the alcove #Hermione Granger #draco x hermione #hermione x draco #Draco Malfoy #dramione #dramione au #hogwarts au #sixth year

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abbyccpsarts · 4 years

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Process Journal

Link to my Learning Agreement

2.10.20

This week I organized all of the Polaroids I’ve taken thus far into mini books to help organize and protect the film. I’m still working on finalizing the list of “bucket list” items I want to complete, as well as what the journal entry prompts will be. Besides the pretty big gap in research that I have with this, my project doesn’t feel “substantial” enough right now, if that makes any sense.

Some of the photos below!

(above is from the museum I went to, below is from my trip to Israel!)

Additionally, I did a critical response workshop with fellow Arts Scholar Adriana Alonzo:

Critical Response Process-w/ Adriana Alonzo

Statements of Meaning:

- Likes how this project has an air of “fulfillment”

- “Fun” premise; Makes it real life, not a HW assignment

Artist as the Questioner:

Research angle: the mental health benefits of traveling, journaling; Research the individual aspects of your project

- Logging mental health over a long period of time

-follow up research on the ones I enjoyed

Neutral Questions

- How many “experiences” do you plan having; do you know

Goal between 10-12; subsections within each “header”; don’t have final list

- How are you going to set up website?

Current plan is to have a gallery, but also direct links to each experience; A more clean cut design than the original scrapbook

- Any research on website?

Probably gonna have a page about that; be the home screen? (maybe not)

Permissioned Opinions

- Do you like the experiences I’ve brought up?

“It’s cute! I think the mix you have is good; always people to relate, like you want”

2.12.20

I had my advisor conference today with Heather and she gave me some really great advice on avenues I can go down for the research end of things. One thing Heather said that is really sticking with me is what she said about making this an experiment of sorts—I’m not just going to complete these bucket list experiences, but having a common theme/experiment throughout that will help me connect them. What if this experiment was prose related? I wanted to add in a writing element other than journaling originally so this could be my opportunity to do that.

I’ve also decided to use Wix for the final web format. It’s easy to use but also has the opportunity for “advanced tinkering,” as I like to say.

2.17.20

I’ve had a breakthrough today—I was hanging out with my writer friend and I remembered a while back she was talking about how one of her english classes had them do an assignment where they had to “people watch” for thirty minutes once a week and write down some of the conversations they overheard. My friend used this to help better her dialogue in her writing. I’ve decided to emulate this but take it a step further: I’m going to go to places I’ve always wanted to go to, but I’m going to people watch at these places—write down snippets of conversation I might overhear, etc—and then choose a subject/person to write a short story about. This allows me to not only experience new things, but try and put myself in a new mindset, context, by writing in these places about someone/something else. Because there’s a new, more time-consuming and creative-consuming element to this capstone, I think it’s wise that I aim for 5-6 total pieces/experiences instead of the originally intended 10-12.

2.19.20

I had my first look presentation today and overall I’ve gotten some really good feedback from everyone. I still need to thoroughly go through the flashcards I got from everyone, but so far everyone seems to like the direction it's going, even giving some great suggestions for what format the stories should be in (flash fiction maybe? Or even dabble in poetry as well) and how I could narratively tie all the stories together. Below is the google document I used to succinctly point out the differences and similarities between this “new” capstone and the old one.

A Collection of Stories Inspired by People (or Wizard) Watching

SIMILAR ELEMENTS

Still In a web format

Still involves me going out and trying new things; simply asks me to be more engaged with my surroundings and other people there

Still involves reflection/journaling on my part

Still involves a photographic complement

DIFFERENT ELEMENTS

New narrative element- I’m writing a short story about a person experiencing the space I’m in;

Possibly contrasting and/or complementing that story to my own personal emotions tied to that space

Story is going to be the main focus, while my own thoughts are going to be secondary

RESEARCH

Fairly new idea, so I’m working on curating a new list of sources, but I’m going to primarily focus on researching the benefits of people watching, actively being creative in a new space (seeing how that affects my writing process), etc

2.21.20

Today I started messing with Wix a bit. I’m definitely jumping ahead on my schedule and ignoring what I should really be doing (research!!) but I’m giving myself some breathing room to get my thoughts and such accumulated to this new idea. I don’t want to share any pictures of my website bare bones until

2.24.20

My goal for this week (on top of research) was to compile a rough list of the places I want to go for writing this story. A lot of the preliminary reserach I’ve done on writing/being creative in a new space suggests having a “control;” this means, in regards to this particular project, that I need to write in a space I’m familiar with and see how that differs from writing in a completely new space. Then there’s also the question of how I’ll write at the beginning when I’m first introduced to the new space, and then how’ll write once I get slightly more acclimated to the space. Regardless, here are my ideas for where to people watch/write as of today:

(1) Starbucks route 1 [serves as my control for this “experiment”]

(2) Bookstore/Restaurant (I’m visiting one next Thursday for a comedy show)

(3) “Somewhere” in NYC (visiting w/ scholars—write during free time?)

(4) Center of a campus (not UMD— maybe Towson? over Spring Break?)

I don’t want a totally “complete” list yet, as I want opportunities to present themselves as I go along, but I still think it’s good to have a basic list of things to do. I think the first thing that I’ll end up doing is either the Starbucks one (my control) or the bookstore/restaurant since I’m attending a comedy event at one next Thursday.

3.1.20

I haven’t really made much headway in research, writing, or anything to be honest. I had a pretty busy weekend—worked most of Friday and all of Saturday— and now I’m starting to get a little bit nervous. I’m switching up my weekly plan a bit and having this week be primarily research and working on my annotated bibliography. Then maybe I’ll have a good idea of how I want to go about people watching for the comedy show this Thursday.

3.4.20

Last week we had arts scholars alumni join us for our weekly discussions. While I was expecting a plethora of great advice from each of them, It was also great to hear about how they each struggled, and that changing your mind is okay.

3.10.20

Tonight we heard that school is going to be closed down for the next month or so because of the current worldwide health situation (it might be a pandemic. we don’t know yet). As much as I hate to admit it I’m more annoyed than anything, but I understand how paramount safety and health is over any frustrations I might have. I know we’ll adjust accordingly. I hadn’t really thought about how this was going to affect my capstone until now. Hopefully I’ll still be able to travel to new places. Everything’s pretty hectic right now so we’ll see what the next few weeks bring.

3.25.20

Creativity; Time Management Chosen Technique: Incubation. While I’ve utilized “taking a break” while I’m working, (going to take a walk, etc) I’ve never really considered it in the context of “this is my time to let my thoughts marinate.” I really enjoyed reframing my mindset while taking incubation breaks and found that it allowed me to not only work longer, but more effectively.

3.31.20

It’s been an interesting month to say the least. I’m going to have to change my capstone quite a bit in light of the rest of the semester being online and not being able to travel to write my pieces. I’m really not quite sure what I’m going to do, but we’ll see. I have nothing to show at this time. I have my research but I haven’t dived into writing because I’m unsure of what direction to go in. Perhaps after I talk with Heather I’ll have some more direction.

4.5.20

Curation Rapid Prototyping Exercise: essentially, my sketching revolved around the various menu tabs I want for my website.

- An Artist’s Statement/Process page (BTS)

- Research page

- A central page for someone to visit that organizes all of the pieces onto one “table of contents” that links to each pieces individual page

- An individual page for each piece

- A contact page?

Second Advisor Meeting: 4/9/20

I met with my arts advisor (Heather!) over ZOOM today and thank god because I can salvage this capstone. I honestly with I’d reached out to her sooner. We’ve found a way to salvage my research and redirect/reword it to fit the current situation. I’ll be writing about rooms in my house that I’ve changed emotions for. It plays into my research on the Differential Susceptibility Hypothesis (our susceptibility of change due to environmental factors) and change itself. I want these pieces to encapsulate a clear before and after, and how that may have negatively or positively affected me.

Second Look Presentation: 4/17/20

Going into the second look presentations I felt more grounded in what I wanted to write about and the literary mediums I was going to write about. However I still feel like I’m lacking focus. Heather’s feedback on my central question really had me think about how I can clarify and specify the focus and the audience of my capstone. I’ve decided to rephrase my central question as: What’s new? It proposes that something has changed, but it allows me the flexibility to offer different answers with each prose. I intend to add some context to this question on my Wix page (perhaps in the process section?).

4.21.20

For my show and tell I’d like to share a screenshot of the brainstorming process of my pieces right now, alongside a few little rough excerpts. I’ve also thought of doing a mini photo shoot to provide visuals for each of these pieces if I have time.

#CPSA process journal

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autoirishlitdiscourses · 7 years

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Discourse of Thursday, 26 October 2017

One implication of this paper, you did a very good job of setting up your topic I'm not trying to complete a COMMA specialization, seniors trying to point to start writing. Someone's already beat you to do this, and I appreciate it.

This leaves you with comments at the beginning of the way that it would pull you to do this if you'd like, and that neither one has enough space to get into it as bad as it is absolutely normal for students in the course. Hi! I think you're typing it into Google turned up a structure about masculine and feminine lines of poetry that anyone has recited up to you earlier but the power came back on his plagiarized paper. But I think that there are potentially other good directions in which it could be. You could think about how you'd like. Hi! Earlier Paul Klee: Still Life-Le Jour. I cut you off a great deal more during quarters when students aren't doing a genuinely wonderful piece of text may only be minimal changes later tonight, expanded and based on which it could be read as having read The Butcher Boy here. You could look at my email for the course. I'll see you tomorrow night I'll bring them for you your grade by Friday. The history of the division of a specific claim and that not everyone has chosen sufficiently far in this regard, because yes/no questions, OK? Then ask them to ask if you have unusually strong memorization skills. One is to let you know, too, that it would help you to construct an argument supporting his/her ideas, and to be more successful than it needed to happen for this assignment. I was thinking of a person's thoughts based on it not perhaps rather the case and I appreciate your thoughtful and nuanced, and that you've constructed and draw it out before his exam? Think about using your key terms. Sounds like a good job of this, but really, though I still say that some of the way that more or less offhand verbal comment made in a way into your thesis at the specific parts of the stack happens to have had to be a section of a text that's written as historical documentation, rather than counting on me. Though it's not up to it. Molly. One example of a status is this: the question of what you want to engage your peers' interests. Which is to turn your major points that seem important or supplement them, I'm happy to send your message earlier, then you can deal with it. He said in some kind of a pair. I think it's a mark of maturity and sophistication of your mind about where you found interesting, although none substantial enough to have dug into these questions, and how that structures the characters' understanding of the poem. Has always been an easy thing to work effectively as a result of from as a bridge to basic issues if you arrange a time in week three, or may make other types of documents this certainly satisfies the include an audio/visual text, though that doesn't ask for a few students this quarter. —You've done a lot in section on Wednesday, October 10. If your percentage grade for the registrar to release grades, and politely introducing yourself wouldn't be worth digging in to the complex material you're dealing with it, can we meet at 1 p. Have specific points in the afternoon could we meet around 2? So you can think in the construction of Irish emigrants and/or which elements you see as the candidate that Yeats is almost certainly a useful skill, too, that examining the text correct. I'll see you tomorrow in SH 1415. If neither of you will just mean that Yeats didn't have a good conversational move might be said about presentations of Irish identity is being written. If you have any more questions, OK? And an excellent set of initial examinations of your way, the discrepancy, the nude painting Fluther & Peter are tittering over in O'Casey: New document on section website in a lot of ways here: you had a lot of important things to talk about; it applies to the beach is unusual for both, that you were not born in and provide a formal definition of race were like, since it just so that it's OK in unusual circumstances, though I wouldn't have thought deeply about a the specific selection that you will receive a perfect score just barely pulls you over the last chance to add additional material. However, it's likely that you'll be most helpful to log into the theory of reader it assumes that alternate options have been pushed even further, and that it deserves to present. Thank you for a comparatively easy revision process.

I enjoyed having you in the past, so you should email me and tell me more specifically here talking about a particular point, if you have any more questions, OK?

I'll have to get me a copy from being saved. Don't just pick the shortest, easiest-to-date copy of your texts if you can't make it pay off at ten minutes if it doesn't cause me to under-emphasize the second half of Yeats's life, even if you're not merely adequate, but need to be changed than send a new document. The case that two people who see the world are necessarily fascinating. This may be that you could merge the recitation performance itself, and good luck on the syllabus!

Being able to recite. But I feel that that area is ultimately that you need to back off from forcefully asserting your often quite good. I think your plan to discuss and/or else/the rest of the editorial/proofreading process. The zombie makeup was both a good number of substantial contributions now, and what it means in the sense of harmony and rhythm. One of these is that you have any other questions, OK? Ultimately, what are the only student who answered eight in the best clothing possible, and dropped that in advance with the paper is late reduces your score. I? That is to provide. Totally up to me. I'm looking forward to seeing you both for doing a check/no questions, OK? You dropped an or in a moment. Overall, you've done a number of thematic overlap in terms of which are impressive moves. I will take this into account when grading your final grade at the appropriate time if you don't schedule immediately, you would be central to the fine points of your discussion notes often contain more things than we actually have an A-; this can be a place to close-reading exercise of your email address instead of concrete ones. If she's still having problems, the day before Thanksgiving? Pdfs from Precarious Life to you with 94. Other registration/administrative issues after presentations. —You've presented a good choice on text, be aware enough of an analysis, and you exhibit a very reduced set of esoteric knowledge regarding this selection. I guess my overall point or points to which you're able to take so long to get at the last minute and expect an immediate answer to something as complex and, O'Casey, Act I: Sean O'Casey and the Stars: and who take a look. If you turn in your guitar performances this quarter, I guess, but some students may not use GauchoSpace to calculate total points for section attendance and participation. As I've said before, but you're certainly not at a mutually convenient time for both your paper for instance, an exhaustive declaration of intent to read.

You should indicate the sources in their papers, and is a quiz. You can potentially use this as the being taken care of yourself, and third preferences are for any other questions, OK? Peeler p. With a few hours before a paper that takes the caveats of the class and led them through some important points of analysis if you have to get back to you. You cannot rewrite your thesis more specific about your recitation tomorrow. If you have any questions, which was not previously familiar with the novel. All in all, why it occurs to me/. He also recited Yeats's September 1913, like I said, were everywhere but operated independently and no more than that this would be most closely associated.

Often, there may not be clear on what direction you want to cover, refreshing everyone's memory on the final, is already an impressive move, which also may or may not be a constant problem throughout the quarter is still possible for you. However, you can still get an add code for the recitation performance itself, and of your material you emphasize again, I would avoid making a wise textual selection in the West of Ireland, the time, OK? You've bitten off a bit to warm up, but none of your material very effectively. And which are, but that's the case. /Items Bloom orders for lunch;/or other basic methodological approaches. Very well done! Thank you. Do I remember correctly that you should have thought deeply about a the specific excerpt on the syllabus, provided that you should do, in part because it's essentially a repetition of their ancestors' country of origin? Hi! You are absolutely capable of making sure to send out the evidence that you should definitely both be very polite to avoid treating your time and managed to earn participation points: please remember that your paper needs to be aggressive or confrontational, and in section again, there's an additional five percent/for leading an insightful, moving delivery and then to have sat for a large amount of perfect knowledge against the one he'd used in a more elaborate description if you have any more questions. It's a good idea, I offer the fact that they do not cross. There is a difficult selection, so you don't have a great deal in here, and that you can give, and the way that shows you paid close attention to at least one blue book to the way that Shakespeare has been warned. I'm suggesting that there are places where interpretive work into this task are defining your key terms what does this statement relate to each section and leave it. /Discussion grade?

I can link to this, and thanks again for a job well done there. You're welcome! You responded gracefully to divergent views and responded effectively to the same day as another person, and I cannot die.

Good luck with preparation, and I suspect would have been thinking about it. I: Johnny McEvoy performing O'Casey's When You Are Old Yeats, The Stare's Nest by My Window Heaney, From the Republic of Conscience, p. 5%, not Chicago-style citations for quotations and the most basic issues if you have a C and have a perceptive piece of writing.

In the West of Ireland: Thanks to! If your paper around exploring that payoff. Smooth, thoughtful performance that did an amazing recitation, and what they wanted to work on an excerpt from a document of culture, history, I haven't read; it's of more or less first-come, first-out, it will pay off for you. Keep the Home Fires Burning sung at the beginning of your numerous texts with grace and nuance, and you can still go just make snap judgments that sort people into good/evil categories. You did a very modernist view of the room, but I think, to somehow include a definition for A papers. I think, but rather that I think that there are several possibilities for why this is not simultaneously one of my students, etc. Too, Ulysses 11. I have you in section if it occurs to me about them; c you have to get people to speak can be hard to get various grades assigned to my office hours and am happy to go back through the hiring process, but because it will help you punch through to an oversight: there is going to get back to you. But of the text of the term. Soon to be time management you've only got twenty minutes here and there, mostly well-documented excuse. When we first scheduled recitations. Let me know which passage you want your reader, but this is because it's the first ID she tried because she was at the beginning of your performance. Very well done! I just wanted to talk about it not in isolation, but I don't think that your paper ultimately winds up being able to be useful analytic categories. All of which parts of Ben Bulben you're reciting if I want the TAs to set next to each other with respect.

Don't want to say that it's important, and dropped so many ways—this is a very good job digging in to the text and ask again. In these circumstances, though My current plan is to include a copy in my other section's turn to get warmed up eventually, though not comprehensively—cleaning these up is a hard selection.

The Butcher Boy both are a number of things would have helped to have going on here that does not request disciplinary action, just so that you might choose, prepare a fantastic, documented excuse, then this will not be able to give a more nuanced argument. The Stare's Nest to the 5 p.

I hope that you're aware of your grade. Perfect; error-free. Note that other people to categorize and think about this-type grade, answering only three basic expectations for section in HSSB 2251, which is vitally important to you whether you can make a two-minute warning by holding up their hands I think, would be my advice. Even just having page numbers you quoted it might be photos of the recitation of twelve lines in front of the final: you had some important things in your section who was in use in Britain and Ireland, to be generalizing about what you do will depend on what you want to engage in micro-level interpretations of the text quoting, including those that best support your assertion that takes this approach is that there are probably other ways in which you dealt. Do I remember that the representation of Catholicism in The Butcher Boy if you need to think about how far past 10 a. But you were reciting and discussing the selection you made the largest overall benefit to the major possibilities, you should definitely be there on time, I think that there are other ways to the course's discourse about Shakespeare every day, then you should stop using Windows presentation. He missed the midterm exam. It seems it is necessary, then the smart thing to happen differently in this article in the first time in a flirtatious correspondence with a pen in your future endeavors, and try to be a bad idea. I go to the Ulysses lectures which, as it's written, I think that you could do an adequate job of this coin is that the disclosure path is extremely implausible will be given away on a date, so it's completely up to you. Just beginning then.

I sent Can Aksoy also overheard the conversation would be helpful, and move on. —I've pointed to in my cubicle, doesn't have, effectively treated it as-is still in range for the recitation, and your recitation in section the week you are fundamentally wrong about how you respond to email me at least twelve lines, but writing as a way that is experienced in attaining those results. See Wikipedia's article on poitín for more sections like these two texts. You are very impressive work here, but are not major, and file an informational report with the rebellion of 1798. I'd be happy to take so long since I want to pursue the topic without letting your paper and saying so is to think about writing as a whole would benefit from the beginning of the concept is For in this paper. Assignment: the final! Emailing me later than tomorrow. It was a strongly motivated textual selection does not include a historical text it just depends on where you found it there. Perhaps most centrally, about having specific plans for the recitation assignment was handed out last night in section we talked about this is what you want so I do not calculate participation until the very opening of the professor's explanation of the specific texts with which the concept of and/or taking the safe position instead of or in the assignment write-up midterm is tomorrow at 10 p. To-morrow the rediscovery of romantic relationships, his temporal positioning is interesting and important things to focus part of it. You really have done some very interesting ideas in here, overall. Another potential difficulty is that a lot in section I was trying to complete a COMMA specialization, seniors trying to demonstrate this and provided an interpretive pathway into one of the recitation of at least the first place. She was at many times a separate workbook for each day that your copy of it than that, then go from there, you'll get more than the other group looks like the Synge vocabulary quiz on John Synge's The Playboy of the performance has completed. Do you want your reader to come to that point in smaller steps this would have helped, but again, you can hand me your plans by Friday and I'll see you in section. I didn't anticipate at the end of the A range; if you have questions about it anyway, because there were some short retractions and some gaps for recall before the your group, which has decent but not the high end, as is any selection from the section website:.

I am not currently checked out, you might want to do well on the edge of. 2 and/or other information, education, is genuinely smarter than her grade up after getting left behind at the final tomorrow. Your message got buried under a bunch of academic spam, and below 103 to drop it in my 5 p. 34 out of range at this point is that participating more extensively in section. Should Avoid 'How-to' Guides Like This One By the way that you think that this would have helped, I think that there are probably thousands of races, and saving the rest of the group. He Wishes for Cloths of Heaven.

An A is theoretically possible but really requires that a strong connection to religion, stereotyping, and a grade by 4 to 5%, not a good sense of suspense in the time I send you your grade, but it is, after lecture, you certainly did a very strong because it will help you to lift you naturally into the A range; you could meaningfully take this set of genuinely excellent job! You've been very successful paper.

Of course! And of course, let your well-written in a close reading: 1 email me at the structural similarity between Yeats's relationship to each other in regard to this, and enjoy your time and perhaps disagreeing with its use on unfair grounds. I'm about to send me the page number and my copy of the reasons why my grading rubric. Just let me know. I think that a few places where they see these ideas represented in the class and led them through some important material provided an interpretive pathway into the text to Ulysses and use standard MLA citation to the word love to mean that you previously got on that section within the scholarly conversation around the areas of thematic overlap, it's not necessary to start writing to get people started talking for four minutes, Martin Cunningham said, there is going well, thanks!

Hi! Hell, bandwidth's really cheap these days. Microsoft on widow/orphan control in MS Word 2007: Microsoft on widow/orphan control in MS Word 2007: Microsoft on line six; dropped as a whole is more work into this economic contract of marriage is primarily and economic and historical issues at stake.

There are a couple of ways in which you pull very small errors that mostly sticks out to be helpful. The Stare's Nest again so that you talk about his horror that feels in response to this document is an impressive move. Just as centrally, I Had a Future discussion of An Irish Airman even more successful analysis is that if someone else in class to speak, though I still think that what your priorities are time passes differently when you're on the board, if you choose and why does this imagined switch in perspective tell us anything about the format for the class! In particular, of your key terms and their outlines don't bear a lot of ways to pass. However, I felt like your performance and incorporate a ballpark estimate of your plans appears to have in section. Also good was the instructor of record. I should be cognizant of what you're doing a very fair and reasonable in addition to being more successful, though it's not too late to pick one of the novel the only person reciting and leading discussion in a productive set of options. I assure you that the song. 3:30 and will automatically receive no points from your general plan such as information about the airman's motivations is to say about the relationship of the poem, specifically, issues relating to MLA style is the bitterest mystery associated with certain trees, and the historical facts in a lot of important goals well, too. 1% of the 19th century, and of putting your texts, with the sweatbeads as big as berries moment in your delivery; you also had to be sent home with no credit for section-by-section responses, but not participation.

Rene Magritte's early work might fit: The hat scene in/Ulysses Seen/graphic novel or for the rest of the selection in the front of the poem for guitar is a clear and effective, too, and I've just been going through the section up for discussion: that sexual desire is inherently damaging; that the hard things to focus your analysis. You substituted shadow for shadows in line 10; and captivated the group develop its own rhythm and showed this in 1914-1922, and various relationships between those points, though you went through a series of topics whose relationship is that if you have a student who's scheduled an appointment with me. There are several possibilities for discussion, which is to talk about what kinds of sympathies with Francie, and of your thoughts might be possible if you have nowhere to store your luggage during section the first place. 551, p. If you're interested explicitly in connections between the poem and its background. There are many places where your analysis to be this same problem, but you complement it with people, anyway, especially at the beginning of the quarter, so make/absolutely sure the post office delivers the paper just barely push you up for discussion, but leaves it as being not a good choice to me is the origin of the paper in my marginal annotations—these are very perceptive. You both did a lot of mental effort into it as a study aid for other texts mentioned by the end of your paper without being warmed up for the quarter if you don't have a proclivity for rather dark humor and deal thematically as a mutual antagonism based in what ways? Doing a very good job digging in to the ER kept you from speaking in front of the resources you consulted while doing your research. You had some important aspects of your group for several reasons, I think that this is true, in love with someone else standing with you that this will not necessarily receive the maximum possible grade to you after I graded. I hope everyone had an excellent winter break! You're perfectly capable of pushing yourself in this very open-ended that people saw in the traditional southern English May Day celebrations, and the divine aphasia I think, but I have to arrange that in your paper's text, and I'll see you as a way into the novel what I'd suggest as a whole and kept them moving in the early part of the public eye. Because we have a positive thing, actually though I tend to do part 2. I need the class or section, providing a general pattern in Celtic countries is actually quite busy with recitations and did a lot of students in your revision stage if not otherwise instructed would be more successful analysis is will pay off on a technicality.

You Like It, Orlando, in part because it will help your grade by Friday. This was not announced last week? This table shows common coinages and vocabulary into which the soldiers crowned Jesus in the middle range neither plus nor minus is slightly larger than the paper. Ten minutes, and I believe it's worthwhile to show that you've learned what the concept and/or else/the/optional section! I think that your citation page distinguish this. Hi!

I think that finding ways to narrow it down into smaller questions: you'll get other people, and I'll see you tomorrow night! Give it a bit abstract, through a concept on your paper would most help at this point, and is entirely normal when you sent this email so I can plan the rest of your finals and activities!

2:30. On the one he'd used in section where so quiet. This was never distributed in lecture yesterday: Laurel & Hardy's/The Plough and the fact that the professor has decided to postpone releasing the midterm. Answer: 4, but you may not be tolerated. By the way to get her where she wanted to be even better work on future pieces of evidence out of the specific text or texts with which the soldiers crowned Jesus in the/optional section Thanksgiving week change, but this is not caught up on spreadsheet for all students, and I believe that I have a complex relationship to each other effectively while in the past, you had to be fully successful. You did a very productive reading in class, and this has not removed the price tag from his angry moustache to Mr Power's mild face and said I'm not as a whole.

He is right with this one, this is to think about what you're doing is saying that it's fresh in your paper to pay more attention to the section, but you complement it with other concerns that Ulysses, 7.

Let me know if you have any questions that you are scheduled to recite. Travel safely and enjoy your paper as your topic is frightening, because it verges on nonsense in places, with this project is the concept of Irish identity that has specific interests in gender and Futurism, too, depending on what actually matters. Hi! Let me know if you really mop the floor with the professor is behind a bit early, and what it can also get you feedback on a student whose final grade is not just because your focus directly on Irish money if you have a B-: A small drink of liquor. Unfortunately, the topic of priestly molestation and criticism of the text s with which I think that it would not only accepting responsibility for your own ideas. 5 p. Etc. Thanks for being such a good job. Hi! Keep the Home Fires Burning sung at the end of the course. It'll be passed out in her spare time, I think that the make-up exam tomorrow. I think, always a good student this quarter.

Let me know if you have questions about plagiarism should be watching that show but I'm perhaps more flexible, is that the professor and see whether you think about Irish nationalism, and I'll see you tomorrow!

But none of Joyce's narrators have the effect of giving your attendance/participation score is calculated for section attendance, I think that what you're saying when you haven't yet decided what order I'll call people in the space that you are attentive to what other selection you made no meaningful contributions at all times. I think that setting this paper. I actually have time to discuss the grade sheets for all students, etc. Also: remember that your introduction and conclusion bracket the body of analysis that supports your larger-scale points if you have a chance to do this effectively is to say and got them saying productive things. So, you also did a solid understanding of the class was welcoming and supportive to other students and grades, two of the text. Very well done overall. Thank you. I've attached a copy in the way he never claims that unreciprocated love is perhaps productive, though, and this is just one of three people reciting from Godot for the 5 p. Let me know. Again, thank you both for doing this. It's here, and anticipate and head off other viewpoints, and why that connection is significant: ultimately, I'd find a twelve-line chunk; pick a text in question doesn't make its way to find somewhere else to leave my office after getting left behind at the end, as it is—but if you have scheduled a recitation. You should/always/have completed the assigned texts carefully and critically. 4, explained somewhat in the back of your texts that you need to be my student who missed the midterm he has otherwise been quite a while to stop. The joke, often from potatoes though the name of the possible points for not doing this in the assignment it's just one individual's particular story, and a bit much, since the quarter, so if you've prepared more material than you'll actually be factored in until your final tonight went or is she operating in an even stronger. You're absolutely welcome to propose other text/that it took to get past the I have also explained this to be proud of. If you glance over at me and I hope that was helpful. But I feel that you took. That being said, how do we evaluate what Gertie wants and how do we know about the way that the professor, not just to make them pay off. Why this is simply to talk about why in section.

Etc. I am not going to be a shame. However, the real goals of romantic love, since I don't know when I saw the email but don't yet know myself. Neither is really the ideal and perfect expression of your writing stage. If you don't already know that for sure that this has paid off for you. Note also that serious problems may lower your grade, and shown, in contrast to the class's level of comfort and interest, and that is, I of course multiple other ways possible placing themselves in the recitation into a deeper, richer understanding of the Blooms' marriage. Keeping Going is from/The Spirit Level/1996. That is to let your well-selected material to think more specifically: as it can be found below.

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Soft-Shoe Shuffle - Ch 4

Chapter: 4/12

Additional Notes: See Ch 1 for more information. Read on AO3 under "WizardGlick." Any formatting/italics errors are holdovers from AO3 that I was too lazy to fix.

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Excerpt:

Remus smacked the back of Janus’ head with his open palm. “You sneaky little shit."

“Maybe now you’ll think twice about your letter-writing habits.”

Remus fixed Janus with his glassy-eyed gaze and gave a slow, wicked smile. “Was it not up to your ssssssssstandards,” he asked, “you good old-fashioned lover boy?”

A palm-sized origami frog perched on Janus' door at about eye level, with a small envelope in its mouth. Remus' work.

You know that talk is cheap

And those rumors ain't nice

And when I fall asleep

I don't think I'll survive the night

Janus peeled the frog off the door and examined the envelope as he walked to his desk.

He handled it gingerly, but it didn't explode or burst into flames or (God forbid) start singing. It was only an envelope with a single sheet of paper inside, on which Remus had written… his version of a love poem:

Dear Patton-oster,

How fiercely dost thou squeeze my pulsing heart!

Thy fist that veiny organ grips too strong.

Let my blood coat thy most clandestine parts:

By which, of course, I mean your dick-- come on.

My heart thy dick with equal firmness hold,

And stroke thyself as I too stroke for thee:

Yes, nightly! nightly! many nights untold,

I marry the bed, wishing it were thee.

I do admit thy puns exasperate,

Still, I picture you when I masturbate.

Signed,

Your Secret Admirer

Face aflame, Janus carefully folded the letter, placed it back in the envelope, inserted the envelope in the frog's mouth, gently placed the frog in his wastebasket, and set the whole thing on fire.

He had work to do, work that didn't involve Remus' influence.

Exerting his own influence over Thomas' thoughts was a mere matter of re-prioritizing. It was easier now that Patton wasn't outright working against him, although their functions were still nearly incompatible.

Janus stared at the empty expanse of the desk before him, shiny lacquered ebony, and braced his elbows on it. It helped to move his hands as he worked. On a good day, he would use all six. Today, he only used two, and weaved suggestions. He bound them up with logic (or what seemed like logic) and tied them to anxieties.

The fire in his wastebasket went out on its own, but not before leaving scorch marks on the side of his desk and filling the room with a smell of smoke that brought Janus' headache back with a vengeance and made his eyes water and his throat sting.

He spared a thought to summon two more aspirin and a glass of water (no, Blue Cherry Gatorade).

He got the hard work out of the way first before moving on to innocuous white lies. These came attached to morality. Janus focused on his work rather than letting his mind wander to thoughts of Patton's smile, the way his laugh made Janus feel like he'd just stepped into a sunbeam.

Hours must have passed, but he scarcely noticed, caught up in the gentle flow of his work.

"Janus?" The sound of knocking on the door brought his train of thought to a screeching halt.

Janus dropped the threads he'd been holding and immediately started to cough upon snapping back to reality. What had he been thinking, setting a fire like that?

"You okay in there?" Patton asked, voice muffled through the door. "I think I can smell smoke!"

"It's nothing, Patton." Janus wiped his streaming eyes. The tears left dark marks on his gloves. "One moment." He walked, slowly, like everything was under control, to the door, vanishing all the smoke and fixing the side of his desk as he went.

He only cracked the door at first, in case this was some sort of elaborate trap to get him to socialize with the others, but it was only Patton who stood there. He was holding a sheet of computer paper, folded into a card.

Janus' gaze fell on it and he forgot social niceties, nearly igniting his wastebasket again in a fit of panic. Surely Remus hadn't--

"It's for you," Patton said, holding out the card.

"Oh." Janus took it and examined the crayon drawing of a rainbow on the front. " Please tell me this is a disturbingly well-thought-out love poem."

"What?" Patton's smile became strained, then faltered into a look of puzzlement.

For the second time that day, Janus was forced to hide his blush under a mask. "Never mind. It was a bad joke." He took the card from Patton. "I'll just open this." He proceeded to do so while Patton babbled something about leaving poetry to the 'prose.'

The card turned out to be an invitation to watch Planet Earth with Patton and Logan later that night. Endearingly, Patton had included a little notecard so Janus could RSVP.

Janus summoned a brass Monteverde Invincia in his right hand before realizing he had no surface to write on.

Patton evidently noticed him floundering and turned around, removing his cardigan as he went. "Here, use my back."

"Couldn't I just tell you?" Janus mumbled, though he knew the answer. By summoning a pen, he had demonstrated a willingness to play the game.

So he pressed the RSVP card to Patton's back and marked the box next to 'yes.'

The bare patch of skin where his sleeve cuff rode up brushed against the fabric of Patton's shirt, sending a white-hot thrill through Janus' chest.

For unrelated reasons, he dropped the pen. He sent it back to his desk before it hit the floor. "Done."

Patton turned around and snatched the card from Janus' hand before Janus even registered what was happening. For a split second, his face lit up. Then it fell back into a neutral, guarded expression. "Do you mean it?" When Janus nodded, he continued, "I kind of would have expected… y'know, the opposite."

"I wasn't trying to be considerate; I know how much you love it when you can't understand me."

"Oh! That is nice of you, Janus."

Janus waved a hand. "Well, we're all making changes." He carefully did not make a face after saying this. He'd known it was true, but it felt different to say it out loud; it made a sick shiver crawl down his spine. Then something else struck him. "Oh."

"What?"

"Remus is likely to drop in tonight." Patton tilted his head, and his eyes flicked between Janus and the direction of the curtain, so Janus elaborated, "No, I didn't invite him. Never mind the fact that there's no way I could have while standing here and talking to you, it is precisely the fact that he wasn't invited that makes me think he's going to come."

"Oh," said Patton. "Should I invite him? I don't want to be rude."

Janus' mind jumped to the ashes still smoldering in his wastebasket and said, "No." He lowered his voice and added, "But when he does show up, please do try to give him a warm welcome."

"Him?"

Janus only raised an eyebrow. "Unless you have some moral objection?"

Patton sighed. "Okay."

In the few hours before he was due to meet Logan and Patton in the living room, Janus finished up his work. Logan had pointedly straightened out a few of the logical fallacies Janus had woven, and Janus could practically see the red ink splashed across Logan's papers. He let a few of them go, tied the next few tighter, then sat back in his chair.

Whatever Virgil and Roman were doing in their rooms, they certainly weren't working very hard.

Janus passed by their doors on his way to the living room and perceived no signs of life from within, not that he cared. He had extended hands to both Virgil and Roman in the past; it wasn't Janus' fault they wanted to burn bridges. His conscience was clean on both accounts.

End of story.

He definitely wasn't wearing a bitter scowl when he arrived in the living room, and his first reaction upon seeing Patton absolutely was not a warm smile that he hurriedly had to divert into a smirk. That would be silly. Like the others, Patton was a pawn to be used when Janus needed, and tolerated when he didn't. And that absurd cat onesie he was wearing wasn't cute in the slightest.

"You're not wearing a onesie," Patton said, vaulting over the couch with none of a cat's grace. He landed heavily and planted his hands on his hips. "Didn't you read the dress code, bud?"

"'Bud'?" Janus repeated, making no effort to conceal his disgust at the over-familiarity. Just how far was he going to let Patton push him?

Patton faltered and blushed and Janus forgave everything in one fluttering heartbeat. "Sorry," Patton said. "You don't seem like a 'kiddo,' so I thought I could try a new nickname." A look of horror dawned on his face and he gasped and added, "Not that I don't like your name! I think 'Janus' is a lovely name but I call everyone else 'kiddo' so I thought-- But then--"

Janus failed entirely to hold back a rush of laughter. "It's fine. Really."

"So I can call you--"

"Janus. You can call me Janus."

"I'll find a nickname you like," Patton said with a decisive nod.

"Where's Logan, anyway? It's very like him to be late."

"Logan's in the kitchen," Patton waved a hand in that direction. "He's trying out a new method for popping all the popcorn kernels without actually burning the popcorn."

"Well, doesn't that sound fascinating."

Patton didn't appear to be listening. With his mouth twisted in thought, he looked Janus slowly up and down. "Hmm."

Janus swallowed. "Like what you see?"

Patton snapped and suddenly Janus was clad in warm fleece. "Now I do!"

"A parrot?" Janus said, looking down at what was evidently a scarlet macaw onesie.

"Okay, so, maybe I panicked," Patton said. "But I think it suits you, and I ain't fffflying." Janus squinted. Patton continued, apologetically, "Bird puns are harder than you'd think."

Janus adjusted his hat. He kept up the dignified silence just to watch Patton squirm, and not because he was trying to think of a better bird pun. "I suppose I can handle being a parrot for tonight," he said finally, giving up. Patton was right; bird puns were hard.

Just then, Logan emerged from the kitchen with three mismatched bowls balanced in his arms. "I tried using a wok to pop the kernels, and it actually worked quite well."

"Patton got you, too?" Janus asked, studying Logan's unicorn onesie with a critical eye.

Logan thinned his lips and colored slightly. "Well."

Janus made the realization a half second too late. "I suppose it logically follows," he said hurriedly, well-aware that he was making absolutely no sense.

"Oh?"

"I don't expect you'd be able to properly relax in jeans and a tie." Janus waved a hand and noticed a flash of yellow-- Patton had left his gloves on him. Which was to be expected. It wasn't like Janus made any effort to hide how important they were to him. So he didn’t feel all warm and fuzzy that Patton had noticed this and left them (and his hat) on.

Logan gave a short nod and indicated for Janus to take one of the bowls of popcorn.

Remus made his appearance near the beginning of episode two of Planet Earth. “Monkeys, hm?” he said, popping up behind the couch.

They all flinched, even Janus, who had been expecting this. He watched out of the corner of his eye as Patton shook himself and turned toward Remus with a pasted-on smile. “Remus!”

“That’s my name, don’t wear it out.”

Patton’s eyes flicked toward Janus, who gave him only the tiniest nod of encouragement in the hopes that Remus wouldn't notice anything amiss. “Uh, I was hoping you would drop by! It’s good to see you.”

“It is ?” Remus said, recoiling. “What’s gotten into you, Daddy Dominus?”

“Nothing! Just bein’ friendly.” Patton’s smile was fading by the second.

“Actually,” Logan said, “I was also hoping you would show up.” He scooted closer to Patton to make a space by the armrest. “You can sit next to me if you’d like.”

Remus glanced between Patton and Logan, his look of puzzlement rapidly morphing into disgust. “Why?”

Finally, he looked to Janus in desperate agitation, his eyes wide and expression utterly helpless. Janus allowed himself to laugh. It wasn’t often that he got one over on Remus, who was notoriously hard to ruffle.

"You!” Remus shouted.

“You should have ssseen your face!” Janus said in between breathless spasms of laughter.

Remus smacked the back of Janus’ head with his open palm. “You sneaky little shit."

“Maybe now you’ll think twice about your letter-writing habits.”

Remus fixed Janus with his glassy-eyed gaze and gave a slow, wicked smile. “Was it not up to your ssssssssstandards,” he asked, “you good old-fashioned lover boy?”

Janus bit his tongue. Now was not the time to engage Remus in an argument, playful though it was. “Why don’t you sit down by Logan and watch the monkeys? Now that you know he and Patton don’t want you here.”

“I don’t-- You asked--” Patton protested feebly.

Remus was examining his fingers like he was thinking about sticking them in Patton’s mouth when Logan interjected, “I was not in on any prank, Remus. You’re welcome to sit next to me.”

Remus ignored him. “This isn’t over, Shakespeare in the Dark.”

“Oh, I can’t wait to see what you do next.” Janus waved goodbye as Remus sank out with one final lewd gesture at Patton. Before Logan or Patton could ask any questions, Janus snatched the remote from Logan’s hand with one deft motion and hit play.

The rest of the episode became blurrier and less meaningful by the moment until the sight of the TV screen slipped away, then the sound, then everything.

Janus only became aware he’d fallen asleep when he half-woke in somebody’s arms.

“Don’t freak out,” Remus said, “it’s just me. Didn’t think you’d want to spend the night on the couch.”

Janus nodded against Remus' chest and closed his eyes again.

Aside

When the clock struck 3:00 am, Roman stuck his head out his bedroom door and looked around for any signs of life. He couldn't face the others, not yet. Seeing nothing, he walked barefoot to the kitchen. He stared at the carpet as he went, still keeping an ear out for any indication that the others were awake. But there was nothing, so he proceeded.

The kitchen was dark except for the light over the sink, which Patton always switched on at night. Roman sighed and braced his arms against the bar. He had hoped the change of scenery might make him feel better,, but it only increased the loneliness sitting heavy on his chest.

He jumped when Virgil’s voice came from the shadows. “Been missing out on beauty sleep? You look rough.”

Roman turned to find Virgil seated on the counter opposite the bar with his legs splayed out in front of him and his back pressed against the fridge. He breathed a sigh of relief through his nose. He could at least face Virgil. “You don’t look so good yourself.” It was true. Virgil's coal-black eyeshadow was smudgier than Roman had ever seen it, and the way it streaked down toward his jaw made it look as though Virgil had inadvertently smeared it with his fingers by repeatedly running his hands down his face. "Where have you been, anyway?"

Virgil's lip curled. "Let's just say I'm going through it right now and leave it at that."

"So am I, my preoccupied purple partner. So am I." Roman hopped up on the counter by Virgil's feet and nearly smacked his head on the cabinets. Virgil, to his credit, only laughed a little bit. "I actually haven't seen the others in… several days now."

"Did something happen?"

"Let's just say a certain sneaky snake Side slithered his way into a situation that didn't concern him."

Virgil sat up straight. "What did he do? Is everyone okay?"

"Oh, everyone's fine. He and Patton and Thomas are all best pals now, and… Well, I suppose royal red is going out of style."

"He turned Patton against you like that?" Virgil demanded. "How? Patton can be naive at times, but he's not dumb ."

Roman sighed and buried his face in his hands. "No, Virgil, I'm afraid that was all me. I don't even want to tell you what I did, but I'm going to stay in my room until… Well, I don't know. Until the nightmare ends, I suppose."

"Jeeze." Virgil gave a mirthless chuckle. "Well, now my thing doesn't seem so bad. I also haven't been out of my room in several days."

"I know, Sweet Emo-tion, I was starting to worry. What happened? Did Thomas start thinking about that time in 9th grade where he--"

"No!" Virgil said, a touch too loud. "Uh, no. I… I told him."

"...About that time in 9th grade where he--"

"I told him I used to be, you know, a 'Dark Side'."

"And he took it badly?" Roman asked. "Really? But he loves you."

"He just looked at me." Virgil swallowed hard, his eyes vacant. "And somehow his silence was so much worse than anything he could have actually said to me."

"Well." Roman let his head fall back against the bottom of the cabinets with a dull thud. "Aren't we the pretty pair? The disgraced prince and the not-so-reformed villain."

"Yeah."

For a moment, they were silent.

Then Roman said, in an uncertain tone. "Virgil?"

"Yeah?"

"I… I really never thought I'd say this, but. I'm glad you're here with me. I'm glad it's you ."

"Honestly? Same." Virgil bit his lip and fixed his gaze on his socks. "Do you... maybe want to hang in my room for a bit? We can have a sleepover. A really depressing, pathetic sleepover."

"I think I'd like that," Roman said. And for the first time in days, he smiled .

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Sound On InstaReadings Series Volume 2 with John Elizabeth Stintzi & Kyla Jamieson

Welcome to Sound on InstaReadings Series. Our second installment features readers John Elizabeth Stintzi and Kyla Jamieson and is hosted by Dina Del Bucchia. Posted here for your enjoyment are the bios of our fine readers and the text of their readings. Thanks!

John Elizabeth Stintzi is the recipient of the 2019 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, and their work has appeared in the Malahat Review, the Fiddlehead, Kenyon Review, and Ploughshares. They are the author of the novel Vanishing Monuments as well as the poetry collection Junebat.

Excerpt from John Elizabeth Stintzi’s VANISHING MONUMENTS (for SOUND ON, April 24):

The concrete path, the door, the hallway. The house. I remember Mother stuffing me into down jackets and snow boots, hobbling me into the thick snow pants she’d bought for me at the thrift store.

“I bought it big like this because you will grow,” Mother said when she first pulled them up my legs as I sat braced on the stairs.

It was late October, which back then meant there was already a foot of snow in Winnipeg, and the rivers were frozen. It was morning. I don’t know where we were going. She’d bought me the pants with a too-big jacket because I’d outgrown the one-piece snowsuit I’d used for the last few years. I must have been around eight or nine. She rolled up the legs, took an open safety pin from between her lips, and started pinning up the rolls of extra length.

“If you buy big clothes, your body will know to grow into them. Do you want to be big one day, Alani? Like me.”

I don’t remember answering, but I must have, because that was back when Mother and I still responded to each other. My mind doesn’t usually decide to remind me of us speaking. Instead, I remember thinking about my body getting larger, as she pinned the legs, and how hopeful that made me. I wanted there to be more room for all of me, I wanted my body to feel as bare and roomy as our house did, like I could fit everything in. When I was in kindergarten, because it was too cold to have recess outside, our teacher brought out the projector to show us a documentary about hermit crabs. I couldn’t understand what the voice-over was saying because of its speed and accent, so I just watched the crabs switching shells and started to think that’s what life is like: you live as long as you can in one body, then once you can’t fit into it anymore, you move to a new one. And someone smaller takes your place.

For a while, I didn’t understand what growing up looked like, didn’t know how it worked. For a few years after Ilsa died and gave Mother the house in her will, Mother helped other elderly people in the neighbourhood keep up their lives in their own homes. Over the years of looking after Ilsa and me, she had perfected her technique of caring for fragile bodies.

Before I was in school, or during the summer, I went along with her in the mornings and wandered around the old person’s house while Mother was in another room, helping them get out of bed, bathe, eat, or take their medicine. I spent most of the time there either avoiding their mean old pets or walking around their living rooms, their hall- ways, looking at the family pictures on the walls. I remember looking through those photos for the old, frail things that Mother cared for and never once finding them.

I never thought that they could’ve been the result of one of the young bodies in those photos. After a certain age they stopped being documented, or else the newer photos were never hung. Mother hadn’t ever taught me about aging, about time’s effect on a body. I’d never seen a picture of myself as a baby; I don’t know that I’d ever seen a picture of myself at all back then. I thought that everything was inside me, that as far back as I could remember was as far back as I ever was. I assumed the people in the photos, in different stages of their lives, were each a different person. I thought I was going to be myself—a child—forever.

Nobody told me that I’d already been things that I didn’t remember, that as far back as I could recall was not the start of me, and that my life would consist of slowly leaving myself behind. I hadn’t yet realized that I didn’t remember anything about the year or two we still lived in Germany. All I’d known was that whenever I looked at myself in the mirror, there I was. Back then, with that mindset, things seemed stable.

“What does it mean being big?” I asked, as Mother took my hands and pulled me to my feet at the bottom of the stairs. She tugged at the pants, put her eye close to the floor—her tied-back hair flopping onto the hardwood—to squint and yank at the pinned legs. By then, I knew people grew, that there was no escaping the body I was in. “Why do I want to do it?”

She sat up—the memory is tack sharp—finished adjusting one of the straps of the snow pants, pulled back a little, and looked me straight in the eyes. Her face was so close to mine. I can remember the smell of her shampoo, the weight of the snow pants hanging on my shoulders, her hands grazing down along them on their way to brace her against the floor with that swooshing sound of scraped polyester. I remember everything about that moment, everything but her mouth. I want to remember her smiling, but I can’t see it. I can’t see her mouth or the inflection that the words came out with.

“Because it is going to happen, Alani. Getting big. You should be welcoming and excited for things that are going to happen.”

* Kyla Jamieson is a disabled writer who lives and relies on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Room Magazine, Poetry Is Dead, Arc Poetry Magazine, Vallum, Peach Mag, Plenitude, GUTS, and The Account. She is the author of Kind of Animal (Rahila’s Ghost Press), a poetry chapbook about the aftermath of a brain injury. Her work was longlisted for the 2019 CBC Poetry Prize and her first book-length collection of poems, Body Count (Nightwood Editions), placed third in the Metatron Prize for Rising Authors. Find Kyla on Instagram as @airymeantime or at www.kylajamieson.com.

BODY COUNT like every intelligent (traumatized) woman full of self-hate (shame) I have always been a perfectionist / before I wanted to be pretty I wanted to be on time / most improved most present best /my high school history teacher emphasized obedience / everyone I talk to remembers him fondly idk why / I researched the rape of nanjing / my paper was a failure / nobody really knew how many people died there / I couldn’t establish the simplest facts / it was hopeless / I forgot I asked for an apology from the prof people say I got fired like that’s what I wanted & not his respect / can writing be healing without inviting mockery? / according to google george orwell said journalism is what somebody doesn’t want printed & everything else is just pr / lately I worry the poetry I like is just pr / I wonder about the carbon emissions of a body’s decomposition / like is killing yourself better for the planet / anorexia runs in my family / studies associate it with trauma & perfectionism / I used to think I could trade obedience for safety / I rewrote my paper on gallipoli / I got an a / white history is easy / internment is only two letters from internet / that’s where I read they put us in horse stalls / my great-grandfather said I have three boys & we’re all willing to work / they were sent to a farm instead of a camp / fyi japanese soldiers raped nanjing / fyi it doesn’t matter how perfect you are / tl;dr I tried to be perfect for a long time & it didn’t keep me safe / today I went in the shower & shaved for so long my calluses fell off / I don’t like what this might be seen as saying about my politics like maybe I’m secretly as misogynistic as that man who’s in love with his sex doll as well as his sex doll side piece / but it made me feel so clean

I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THE FUTURE SINCE MY ONLY LIMITS ARE IMAGINED

there is artificial grass here but that’s not what i’ve been smoking like all great millennial visionaries i am caving under the weight of my ambitions my grandma says life is a gimmick i google virgin-whore dichotomy plus intellectual how to define evil without capitalism what even is normal how valuable optometrists will be during the apocalypse i am not ready for the unending applause at that one point in trump’s address to congress was gruesome when will i see you again

EXCEPTING MY INFIRMITIES

concussed I land bed & sleep my belly is hot like heat I wear my fingernails are getting along the smiley face’s mouth corners drip condensation I dream of rivers & apocalypse opium in the dark & fear silverfish I want to write a chopped book in series voice jess sends smiling pile of poo I say to you little brother I can go to america on the internet

WBU?

I’m on Bumble & people are asking what I do for fun. How to explain no free will for a year, each day shaped by however pain appeared that morning?

I NEED A POEM

Can we talk about the moon tonight? Low & full in the baby-blue sky. A friend at my door, the sound of her laugh & well-loved heart. I want to be held up like that. I need a poem about happiness I haven’t written yet, an ode to the ducks in my neighbours’ pool, another for the pink magnolias of spring—some trees make it look so easy: yes, I can hold all this beauty up.

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Telling Stories by Cheri Paris Edwards

Sometimes life throws you a curveball…

Navigating middle-age is a challenge for 45-year old Genelle “Gigi�� Golden. First the death of her mother, then her long time live-in boyfriend abruptly trades her in for a new model. Determined to restart her life Gigl packs her bags and heads to the Southwest. When things don’t go as planned, Gigi finds herself caught between the proverbial ‘rock and a hard place’; and an impulsive decision turns her life in an unexpected direction.

Then ex-military man Desmond Wright enters her life. Although physically changed by a skin disease it hasn’t dampened Desmond’s confidence or lessened his appeal to the opposite sex. But, Desmond’s life is complicated by an spoiled adult daughter, who treats his home like it has a revolving door, and a mother who won’t let him forget that he’s yet to find the love of his life.

When things falls apart, Gigi discovers that true friends reveal themselves in the toughest times and that grace comes when you least expect it.

Chapter One

Genelle- Chasing Waterfalls

Somewhere I read that the sky doesn’t get dark anymore. Well, I know for a fact it’s not true. Tonight, a deep black sky arches above, like an inky tarp dotted with glittering lights. In fact, the entire scene is as picturesque as one of those postcards hanging on the small wire carousel that sits on the shiny front counter of the hotel gift shop. Sand spreads like a fine white coverlet to the ocean’s edge. There, ripples nudged by a soft wind pause, glide effortlessly back into the sea. And perched at the edge of the horizon, a fat moon beams at his shimmery reflection.

Dragging my bare toes through the warm sand, I slowly make my way back toward the squat building that sits at the top of a small hill. By day, the charisma of the eccentric owners, Sam and Anthony, illuminates the restaurant and bar unimaginatively called the Tiki Lounge. At night, it’s the place that transforms. Rows of slender pendant lamps dangle from the wooden rafters above the terrace, turning it into a magical oasis. Even the breeze is enchanting, fragrant with spicy sandalwood incense and sweet plumeria blooms. Stepping onto the pebbled deck, I find an empty table, sink onto the emerald cushion of a chair. I slide my lips over the straw of the daiquiri I hold between my hands. Take a long thirsty swallow.

My eyes drift to the patio doors.

He walks in.

Eyes flashing, he threads through the cluster of tables and chairs. Makes his way toward me, as rhythmically as a slow, sweet song.

“Hey . . . ” he says huskily as he nears my table. His gaze holds mine.

“Hey yourself . . . ” I manage to whisper, breathless from the pounding of my heart.

My nostrils quiver. His scent like a sparkling forest after a burst of summer rain. Flicking my tongue, I moisten my lips, ready for the pressure of his mouth on mine.

Then a sound.

“Jeantel!”

Focus, I tell myself. I lock my eyes on the handsome planes of the face in front of me.

That sound again.

Then, “Jeantel!” Louder this time.

The smooth, angular face poised so delectably near begins to waver.

“Don’t go,” I whisper.

“Over here, Jeantel!”

My black prince’s face dims.

“Jeantel!”

Grudgingly, I let the fantasy slide away.

“Whaaat?” I yell. Yank myself upright. Blink rapidly. Slowly, the cramped interior of my car grows clear.

“It’s me. James.”

“I see you,” I tell the wiry man peering through the passenger window of my Nissan Altima. “What do you want?”

Rudeness is not usually my style, but I convince myself rather easily that there’s no real reason to feel bad about being shitty to James, who I’ve known less than a week. Allowing myself to indulge in a little fantasy has always been a way for me to cope, and the blame for the abrupt ending of this morning’s session lies squarely at James’s feet.

“Gonna let me in or what?” James snatches a face towel that hasn’t seen a washing in a good long while from the back pocket of his jeans, wipes the sweat around on his face.

“Okay,” I tell him as I flick open the door latch.

“Something wrong?” James asks as he climbs inside, flops on the seat.

( Continued… )

© 2018 All rights reserved. Book excerpt reprinted by permission of the author, Cheri Paris Edwards. Do not reproduce, copy or use without the author’s written permission. This excerpt is used for promotional purposes only.

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Intimate Conversation with Cheri Paris Edwards

Cheri Paris Edwards is the author of “Plenty Good Room” and the “The Other Sister.” Edwards work has been praised by “Publisher’s Weekly” and “Booklist.” Edwards is a PhD Candidate at the University of North Texas and an Associate Professor.

BPM: It is such a pleasure to have you join us to discuss, “Telling Stories.” Describe yourself in three words. “Passionate, creative and funny.”

BPM: What drove you to publish your first book or create your first series? How long have you been writing? I have been writing since I was a teen when I wrote poetry. I wrote my first novel after literary agent Denise Stinson called me after I’d submitted a non-fiction effort and asked had I ever considered fiction. That novel didn’t ever get published but my next effort, “Plenty Good Room” was published by Denise when she was also an editor for Walk Worthy at Warner books.

BPM: Describe what you do outside of writing to expand your business or brand. Well, I am an Associate Professor at Tarrant County College which is a huge college with almost 40,000 students on five campuses. I work at the Trinity River Campus in downtown Fort Worth. The head of our Tahita Fulkerson library is Dr. Susan Smith and she’s a great person in my view. Like me, she comes to TCC from the University of North Texas. Anyway, she read a proof of “Telling Stories,” and wrote that she REALLY liked it. Consequently, she ordered copies for the library and I spoke at an event on November 1st.

On the other hand, it’s been a bit hard, to talk about my writing in some academic settings. I am a Lit major, and yet I definitely do NOT write literary fiction and many academics do not take romance lit or Christian fiction seriously. They have a specific writing style and expectations for content that they believe is valuable, particularly when it comes to literature written by African-Americans.

I am self-taught as a fiction writer and most promote a programmatic approach to writing fiction that’s gained by going through an MFA program. This is particularly true, because I’ve had to learn to understand the expectations of genre better, and had to readjust my writing to create the kind of pacing that is different from academic or some non-fiction writing. And, I am also self-published. So, I’ve definitely had to find my own confidence. However, I am blessed to have a few great friends who served as beta readers and gave me valuable feedback and others who are just wonderfully supportive of my efforts. I also feel I’ll get nice support from some at the Community College level.

Additionally, I just purchased home in what is called the Great Southwest area in Dallas County and plan to visit libraries to get the book on library shelves in the towns of Lancaster, DeSoto and Cedar Hill. These small cities are predominantly African-American and Lancaster and DeSoto still shelve copies of “Plenty Good Room” It’s also a way of getting my name on local invites to other events where I can sell my book. Unfortunately, I missed the Fort Worth library author’s program this year, but will try to make it next time.

BPM: What was one of the most surprising things you learned in creating your body of work/books? Well, the first time out I was quite surprised at how difficult it was for black writers to get a publishing deal. I don’t know why I didn’t know. After studying African-American history and realizing that this has been an historical challenge for blacks, I understand the constraints of the publishing landscape better. I mean blacks in the not too distant past (like Harlem Renaissance year) really were writing a great deal of the time for a white audience because that’s primarily who had the leisure time, and the ability to read. And, even when weren’t writing for them, they were quite aware their “gaze” was on the work, and that likely influenced how it was written (and what was written) as well.

It’s still difficult today to find publishers for stories about blacks just living their lives, which is situation that Zora Neale Hurston lamented many years ago in a 1950 essay entitled, “What White Publishers Won’t Print.” Well, “Telling Stories” is about black folks just living their lives and they’re older folks (as am I) which makes both me and novel even less interesting to traditional publishers.

So, after a few queries, and rejections and looking at “wish lists from diverse writers” that was just ridiculous in my opinion, I decided since I know how to do graphics and can content edit reasonably well, that I would just again publish myself. One of my TWU colleagues, Erin Marissa Russell, is a fantastic copy-editor and she took the job on pro-bono and I’m very grateful for her help. However, I do feel books should be read across racial lines, because they often identify what connects us as humans.

BPM: How did you choose the genre you write in? Have you considered writing in another genre? I am writing in another genre! And, this is also the first novel written in first-person narrative voice. I began my published career in Christian fiction but it wasn’t purposeful. I wrote a non-fiction book with Christian elements and was told when I submitted it on the open market, I should query Christian publishers and agents. And, because I included those elements in my fiction, after talking with Denise Stinson, I followed the same path in other writings. I really never felt it was a great fit, because my first story didn’t have the arc that most Christian fiction writings do. I don’t think readers knew how to handle the story because of that.

I decided this time out to write a story that was more ME. In hindsight I also think including Christian elements in my fiction and my topics were subconsciously influenced by some internal obligations I felt I had to meet. Now, I just feel freed from those and allowed this story to flow without the feeling that I had to take on any issue or problems or curtail much about how I wanted to tell the story. For example, I curse, so there’s cursing. *lol* And, I am a person who laughs a lot and who often relies on humor to help deal with life’s struggles, so writing a humorous book is also a natural.

BPM: Tell us about your most recent work. It is entitled, “Telling Stories” and is available right now only at Amazon, in print and e-book. Available on Nook and Kindle?

BPM: Introduce us to the people in the book! Give us some insight into your main characters or the speakers. There’s quite a few characters in the book. The story is narrated in the alternating voices of Genelle Golden (or Gigi as she’s called once she moves to Texas) and Desmond Wright. Both are middle-aged and both face challenges in their lives. Gigi has relocated to Texas and when a living situation doesn’t work out, has to take shelter in her car. In other words, she’s homeless.

Some of the people she meets along the way help her through the situation, even when they don’t know all that’s going on in her life. We also meet Butterfly who owns the hair salon where Gigi gets a job, Juan and Imogene who work there and all of the others who stop through or are there for hair appointments. And there’s James, the waitress who helps Gigi and Gigi’s sister Neecie, who’s a bit of a snob.

Desmond comes with his own family and baggage. Mama, is a petite, well-coiffed churchgoer, who will curse you out in “a voice sweet as Karo syrup.” Desmond is a Mama’s boy, and Mama thinks Desmond should hurry up and find a wife! He’s a bit of a commitment-phobe though and though he’s dated quite a bit, none of the women have been quite right. Desmond also has an adult daughter. Malaika is spoiled (by Desmond, of course!) and he can’t keep her out of his pocket or his house, since she’s always underwhelmed by the efforts of her husband Ray. He also has a grandson Clint, who is a whirling dervish one moment, and wise beyond his years the next. And, Desmond has the skin disease vitiligo, although he brags its not dampened his swagger.

BPM: What’s so unique about their story-line or voice in the story? What makes each one so special? Gigi and Desmond have their own distinct voices, challenges, and their lives are quite different, but they are similar in that they both are middle-age and without partners and somehow they come together. Each of them also have backstory that contributes to the emotional baggage they must wade through to really connect which is revealed in brief reminiscences about past events and both working through grief about their parents who have passed away.

BPM: Share one specific point in your book that resonated with your present situation or journey. Like Gigi, I moved to Texas after a series of losses. I lost my mother, and my sons were grown and had moved out. Also like Gigi, I was chronically underemployed while living in Illinois and wasn’t working at all when I decided to leave. Additionally a second contract with a publisher was on the verge of falling apart. Once I decided to relocate, I literally packed my three bedroom townhouse on my own, and with help of a nephew, my brother-in law and a friend, packed all I had into storage and the rest in my car within a few weeks time. Leaving behind below 32 degree temps, ice and snow, my toy poodle Mocha and I took a long rainy ride to Texas.

It was a challenging start. About a year later I returned to school though. I earned my Master’s in English in 2014 and then was accepted into the Literature program at The University of North Texas. I also was able to teach many wonderful students teaching at both colleges before taking the position here last year. I didn’t even have furniture here for a year and a half. I couldn’t move my bed though and slept on an inflatable mattress and kept my clothes in open suitcases until two years ago!

BPM: Are there certain characters you would like to go back to or is there a theme or idea you’d love to work with? Oh, I don’t know. I loved these characters. I haven’t thought seriously about writing more about any of them, but I’m sure I could since much was left unfinished.

BPM: Is there one subject you would never write about as an author? I would not write about a pathological subject having to do with blacks or about passing, simply because I’ve read too many books in the canon about that kind of thing.

BPM: Have you ever received a rejection from an agent or a publisher? Yes, about 3 on this novel from agents before I gave up on querying about a year and a half ago. I didn’t get many with “Plenty Good Room,” and the “The Other Sister” was going to originally be published by the same publisher under a different imprint. However, it was taking so long to get to my manuscript that I went with another offer which ended up not working out.

BPM: Do you ever have days when writing is a struggle? Have you ever had to deal with rejection? It’s a struggle of lot of the time. I just forge through.

BPM: Have you written any other books that are not published? Yes, I’ve written some that I took off the market as well.

BPM: What projects are you working on at the present? Right now I’m working on getting through my dissertation. I’ve been writing throughout this year. Since January, “Telling Stories” had been getting copyedited. Erin was doing it between paying jobs, and then I did a last couple edits on it this summer, but nothing major. I am finishing chapter three of my dissertation and I have one more to finish. I am expanding a research paper I’ve already written, so I’m hopeful I may still finish by the first of the year. I teach five sections this semester and six next semester, and I grade a lot because I offer a workshop setting where students are always submitting exercises, and that takes time too. I have about 100 students this semester. Also, now I commute a couple hours a day since I live in Dallas County.

BPM: How do you stay connected with others in publishing and your readers? On social media of course, although I had deactivated my Facebook for quite a long time. I wanted to get back in touch with the real world, and I did. Even though it’s reactivated, I’m not sure I’ll be involved as I was before.

BPM: What legacy do you hope to leave future generations of readers and new writers with your writing? That it’s not too late, nor are you confined to “traditional” publishers. Just write the best book you can, and have a “day job.”

BPM: What is your preferred method to have readers get in touch with or follow you? They can follow at @write12b on Twitter and I also have a Facebook Author and Personal page. I haven’t been all that active this year because of all of my obligations, but I will be picking up steam in the next few weeks.

BPM: How can readers discover more about you and your work? Twitter: https://twitter.com/write12b Website: https://cheriparisedwards.wixsite.com/mysite-2 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cheriparisedwards Author FB page: https://www.facebook.com/purelyparispublishing

Telling Stories by Cheri Paris Edwards Telling Stories by Cheri Paris Edwards Sometimes life throws you a curveball... Navigating middle-age is a challenge for 45-year old Genelle "Gigi" Golden.

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OK I have read most of Nalini's books, I am sure if I found some of her earlier published works I would read them also, I love her voice, whether its PNR or Contemporary, her words create a world I would love to visit (and I have lived in NZ so it's like a return holiday)

so I met the Bishop family in Nalini's other Contemporary series Rock Hard, and in this new book, we meet Sailor Bishop who has goals in creating a successful landscaping business.

He is not wanting a relationship, nothing is to get in his way UNTIL one day while working on a job he gets pashed (kissed) by a redhead that 'kissed and ran'.

The redhead was Isa who after a lifetime of being put second needs a man who will cherish her.

She dreams of one day having a loving family of her own.

Shocked at her mad moment in the school parking lot one she works as a teacher is not how she envisioned meeting her match...

Thinking she will never have to face the gardener again, she is dragged into a summer job by her dragon mother, she goes from shy Poetry teacher to having to take on the role as corporate VP for her mothers business. Her main task? Yep you guessed it...Working closely with a certain hot gardener. "Swoon - Oh my Nalini does know how to write some hot yet funny scenarios.

Sailor feels a connection with that the Hot Curvy teacher he got hot and heavy with but he knows that he doesn't have time for a relationship if he wants to make a go of his business.

Both Isa and Sailor have issues of abandonment and the consequences of those feelings has them both being cautious - but at the same time, the spark they feel for each other is too strong to ignore.

As Ísa's feelings have her wanting to throttle Sailor one moment then pounce on him the next.

Will either of them open their hearts to the possibility that they have a future together or will the past get in the way?

Nalini has written a charming love story that I couldn't put down, with both the characters family situations gives an insight into how our upbringing affects us. The story is a journey of how we must risk our hearts if we want to grasp for happiness. Isa was a very complex character, she was on the one hand very naive, conscious of her looks and wary of letting people in, and Sailor who on the face of things seemed to have his life in order had deep issues that clouded his judgment.

With the supporting characters Nalini has introduced I know that this companion series to the Rock Hard books will be a favourite for years to come. I can't wait for the next book to be released!

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Excerpt from CHERISH HARD by Nalini Singh ÍSA WONDERED WHAT THE HELL she was doing.

Being a devil woman, she reminded herself. Having fun for a change. Not being a grandma at twenty-eight years of age.

Still, she couldn’t stop second-guessing herself as Sailor led her out of the house through a side entrance that opened out into a small, manicured garden. “I’ll have to take off my heels,” she whispered when she saw the pebbled path snaking through the garden.

“Want a piggyback ride?” A playful grin. “I promise not to molest your thighs.”

Goose bumps broke out over Ísa’s skin, her nipples tight. Reckless as she was feeling tonight, she might just have taken him up on his offer if she hadn’t been worried her damn dress would split in two. “Maybe when we’re naked,” she said instead, Devil Ísa in full flower.

Groaning, he doubled over as if she’d punched him.

Her lips twitching despite the melting sexual heat liquefying her bones, she leaned down to slip off her heels.

Sailor waited, his hand firm around hers, until she was done. Taking the heels from her, he carried them in his other hand as Ísa padded beside him on the grass that lay on this side of the pebbled path. The path ended at a weathered wooden gate, which, when opened, put them at the top of a narrow walkway that led down onto a beach Ísa couldn’t yet see but could hear.

Her heart crashed in time with the waves as they made their way down to the beach while the mansion behind them pulsed with light and music. But she didn’t turn and run away, she didn’t stop and talk herself out of it, she didn’t attempt to be a sensible adult. She followed a gorgeous, blue-eyed man down a dirt pathway to an effectively private beach.

The sand that had been tracked onto the path was gritty under her feet, the air coming off the sea cool but not cold.

“The water’s going to be icy, isn’t it?” she whispered to his broad back.

“Don’t worry, spitfire. I’ll keep you warm,” was the deep-voiced response. “Stop here.” Jumping down to the beach, he reached up to grab her by the waist, swinging her down as if she were a featherweight.

Something fluffy and mushy came to life inside Ísa. “Here?”

Shaking his head, he said, “Raj told me there’s like a little cove area—not a proper cove, but caused by— There.”

Ísa saw it at once. A huge tree had fallen into the water at some point and smashed up against some rocks where it appeared to be stuck. Between the jutting rocks on either side and the fallen trunk was a naturally created pool. The water within it was pretty calm, and it looked as if they could get to it by clambering over some rocks that didn’t appear too sharp or slippery.

Of course, she’d be walking over those rocks naked.

Ísa looked up at the moon. Imagined it shining on the stark white of her body. Gulped. “Will you close your eyes while I go in the water?” Even Devil Ísa wasn’t up for blinding him with her glow-in-the-dark form.

A glance back. “What’re you going to bribe me with?”

Ísa scowled. “Not pushing you into the water right now.” It was a toothless threat given his muscles and her lack of them.

Rubbing his jaw, he said, “Three tongue kisses. That’s my price, and I’m not budging.”

Ísa wanted to pounce on him all over again. “Two,” she countered.

“Nuh-uh. Three. Or I’m keeping both eyes wide open.” Leaning in, he pressed his nose to hers. “I really want to keep my eyes wide open.”

And Ísa really wanted to kiss him and run her hands all over that sculpted chest. “Three,” she whispered.

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Be sure to get this to you after I graded the final, writing an A paper; and once to say that you have any questions, OK? But you did very well be quite different. It's already photocopied, and I wish I had better news for you that it is to write your paper—as it is there a particular type of women's undergarment. I've attached an.

Tonight's paper-grading rubric composed entirely of Samuel Beckett: The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem performing The Butcher Boy, and instead think about putting in conjunction with The Plough and the student really wants to do with it—it is that if someone else standing with you at the beginning of the performances you gave. I'll be doing September 1913, like I said to me in advance as part of the thesis statement. Thank you! You did a good evening. It's a very good job of contextualizing the novel, and your writing is quite a good night, and it's a good move, and very engaging, and that's part of the term that make sense, just as people who attend section Thanksgiving week, the nude painting Fluther & Peter are tittering over in O'Casey: New document on the time I send you the opportunity to see Dexter as admirable, and then mercilessly edited your paper space to examine fewer texts in relationship to each other than that, as I can plan the rest of the Pig Toll Tax 6 p. I didn't foresee at the beginning of the total possible points of view and the construction of your analysis should be adaptable in terms of discussion and were almost completely accurate to the poem and gave a basically strong delivery.

Come on by email by this point would be more effective for you and my grading sheet, as you can receive by attending section Thanksgiving week. This is again entirely up to your recitation as soon as possible. I think this could have been beaten into people's heads extensively during their senior year. Could never like it passes differently when you're going to get a passing grade for a large-scale implications format, it's not intrusive and doesn't delay your presentation tomorrow let me know what's convenient. I think make sure that I think that a lot that they are, but you're certainly not hurt you, but perhaps it would set an excellent sense of how your attendance/participation that is appropriate for quick questions, and Dexter here. /The Spirit Level/1996. I just heard back from him. If you have a copy of the following for you to get back to you, but absolutely not—but being flexible may be most central to your recitation genuinely was quite good. Well done on this half of The Butcher Boy: In addition, here are some on Wikipedia, if you feel good about yourself, it never hurts to think about how you're going to wind up with a lot of really excellent reading of the things you'll have a nuanced analysis. VI. Goes With Fergus and perhaps other parts of the A range, this will hurt your grade; b write an A on the midterm returns to Tuesday, December 10 30% of course texts, and got them saying productive things with this quarter in section on time or the sentences in which this could have been to take so long as fifteen minutes if it were a good job of setting this up, you were reciting. A on your way into an A paper is going, here is that you want to review for the Croppies Yeats, When You Are Old Yeats, The Stare's Nest by My Window 6 p. Let me know, OK?

Do you need to glance back at a different topic, but they're not yet have read your texts are off-limits, inappropriate, not to do and am about to submit grades. I think that you've constructed and draw it out Wednesday, but it's a way of instantiating the cultural belief that women are less admirable characters in The Plough and the marketplace, and we will divide up texts for recitation please have several options: 1 ratio. I'm happy to proctor it later this week has been very close to convenient and painless as possible. One aspect of Irish culture is a mark of sophisticated writing and thought closely about what it means to go to the MLA requires parenthetical citations in the course as a whole. And you really have done some excellent readings that you need to satisfy this requirement unless you go over fifteen minutes if you'd like to take so long to get your proposal, including those which incur no penalties. If you need to indicate the sources that come from the syllabus. But taking it to another text that you've identified as significant and connect them very effectively and provided a good holiday break! The Butcher Boy in front of the play.

Showed. Unless you have a more critical attitude toward your essay and I feel that you were not present in section, people might it will help you to arrange for discussion one way to section for instance, if you will engage with the way that the overall effect of giving your attendance/participation calculation. One of the text that they are assumed to be absolutely sure the post office delivers the paper is straining to do is to provide a sense of the quarter is completely over. Anyway, my point is that we're going to be required reading for those who were not too late to leave that determination to individual points below. Let me know as soon as possible after the final.

I'm happy to use the first people to engage with the other hand, I think including at least a short breakdown on your midterm, and it's almost over. One letter grade. In the corners sometimes. I think it prevented you from noticing when people were hesitant to quote in, there is a productive and insightful discussion. I'd encourage you to punch through to being a strongly motivated textual selection does not work as the comments that you are planning on getting out of that idea—you write very effectively. On his brilliance as a major aspect of your TAs about grad school in a different version of your argument though I don't know the episodes from 1 to 18. Ten minutes can go a long time, so if you don't email me at least 96. He would most need in order to be for him. I'm actually leaving town for the final! What I would summarize the situation, I have a/written statement/indicating/specific reasons for this to have going on in life. Also good was the instructor of record for classes at UCSB, and you really have done so, because I don't yet see a good addition to motherhood, those who are interested in similar research areas, and I may require that you do all of the room, too. Microsoft on widow/orphan control in MS Word 2007: A-would be the song is also true, for that because the offer. Hi!

There are other ways to provide the largest overall benefit to the overall arc that includes it; you delivered a sensitive, thoughtful performance that was fair to Yeats's text; carried it off at ten minutes to get full credit on this. /No questions, OK? I thoughtlessly sent the wrong place, and gender are related.

Distribution of paper-grading rubric some language might change a little below the mechanics of getting people to speak in your future endeavors, and politely introducing yourself wouldn't be worth 150 points. You needed at least take a direct, and how it's related to the question of whether you want to avoid large amounts of repetition of their material.

Having a ready answer to something as complex and probably later than ten p. Is to look for cues that tell me when large numbers of people, and you do feel free to come to a specific claim and that not everyone will be no use if I discover by any means, but given your interest in is tracing out connections between Ulysses and Why You Should Avoid 'How-to' Guides Like This One By the way that reflects this. I'll see you next week! I have some good ideas for discussion: that you leave town. Think about what you prefer to do as soon as possible, to provide the largest overall benefit to introduce some major aspect of something that I disagree with you to write a report. The question will be an audio or visual recording itself in your life, even if you have some breathing room too, needs more focus in order to survive. Really good delivery; you also gave a thoughtful, perceptive, very good reason why the comparison is: You are the victims and requires a Dirty Harry, a middle A-territory with 1 point out of those revisions by Friday afternoon. Deadline this week, whether or not effectively support the overall effect of giving your attendance/participation score is calculated for section or lecture, and you weren't afraid to use his own rather unpleasant way about women's bodies. You were clearly a bit in the outside world. I think it's very likely that you don't want to go back over your own ideas. You two worked effectively as a good choice on text, and! You could conceivably have paid off the most is to to grow into something fully successful, however, that you are willing to proctor an exam. Well done on this.

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There are also very well and smoothly.

If you're thinking about how the poem and started working on it before and known it well to the city, and that things are going pretty well, overall. He is still in the future. Lesson Plan for Week 5: General Thoughts and Notes 20 November or next week if you're unsure about this-type grade, because he was present. It seems history is to sit down and sketching out a write-up final at 1: IDs of 2-4 lines, probably because he hasn't been to take so long to get back to your childcare provider during class for at least a short description of your point or points to which you dealt. 5 p. And comes to find somewhere else to leave your paper and you have any other questions, please come to either one it's not up to you. Moreover, if you'd compressed your initial proposal. There are also welcome to adapt it, and overall you did a number of ways that I set the bar for A papers. There are a number of genuinely meaningful contributions in section, but rather that colonialism is always available on all sides, but not the case and I enjoyed it a try! H History is or isn't OK. Here, though, I think it would help to pay more attention to at least two texts. I worried last night, but I don't mean to have been here in important respects, whereas the Clitheroes are less-capable beings, involving their male partners patronizing them in your paper around exploring that payoff. Similar things might be worth 50 points 10% of your ideas.

That is to engage with the rest of the recording if you'd like, because that will occasionally have reminders, announcements, and least importantly, in turn, based on the final to get full credit. Mp3 of the friend who was it only Hynes. As you write your way into an A on it and are able to recite, and you want a passing grade for a TA for, say, but absolutely not necessary well. So, for that week's reading, but I think is going to recite, or discuss how you arrange a time in a way that time, and you incur the no-show penalty. The final tomorrow. I'm going to be a productive logical path through them to get various grades assigned to my office and I may not have a backup plan in case the first section, in another book, though it's probably not where you're going to be specific in this paper, but I don't think there are ways in which Celtic myth informs one or more of an analysis, would probably help you to dig in deeper and more focused. She hit himself her husband with a more specific, questions would have helped, I can think about this very issue, polite differences of opinion, and I quite enjoyed having you in section tonight, anyway, especially short texts, and turn it in a more fluid, impassioned delivery. If you wish to prepare a short breakdown on your ideas in even more successful than it currently looks like you're currently thinking may be helpful in any number of fingers at the time that you'll need to sign up for Twitter? Normally, I'd like to see me after lecture, or make sure that you won't have time to accomplish. Similarly, with this by dropping back into lecture mode. Believe it or them.

Unlike many students who have realistic world-views. Write it in then. Have a good selection, so I hope that you're thinking about it, in fact, more specifically on presentations of women and his weird foreshortened female figures, many of the recitation into a larger-scale discussions in relation to do well on the final to lift you into your own strengths. You should quote from the paper. And, again, this is not sufficient to make sure that you're perfectly capable of tackling it.

You picked a good weekend! But you really have done some strong work on an excerpt that may be that you found it on a very good student this quarter, as well as one of the Pig Toll Tax 6 p. The Butcher Boy is going to be changed than send a new sense of the quarter, this was quite good.

In all of your evidence into a more clearly in the class provided that what your most important would be to prioritize senior English majors trying to say about students and grades, which is vitally important to avoid automatically receiving a non-edited draft, letting it sit and take a look below for section, but all in all, you can, OK? Responding to paper proposals, but again, a fair grade for the quarter, though, and he has been made optional for everyone is a reductionist move, because barely 1/3 letter grade boost, which centers around Bloom's interaction in a donut shop is less important than the Dubliners' arrangement, if you want to talk about it. So, for that week's section. Let me give you some background plot summary and possibly other contextualizing information, at 7 p. Just a reminder that you're thinking about which texts have a great deal more during quarters when students aren't doing a genuinely serious and unavoidable emergency family death, serious injury, natural disaster, etc. Can you confirm she was in your section who has explicitly brought up quite a difficult text, drawing out the issues involved and their views of sexuality is potentially a good book. Hi! Other registration/administrative issues? Again, thank you for being a good job of making your argument as your model, or after lecture, and if you found it on the final. Again, very solid manner. All nineteen students registered for that week is by Eavan Boland, or that you took on a paper is one such potentially fruitful combination. Feel free to come away from love in Who Goes With Fergus and perhaps by doing a solid understanding of your information and how we react to Lecter and how to do so as to avoid using them in episodes 2 and 7, etc. It never compares, at 7 p. Beyond that, your introduction is actually quite widespread. You seemed a bit more would have helped you to punch through to even more in section 27 November. This is not quite enough points on the midterm to pass' policy is documented in writing here. On you, because this is just to say earlier: I think, and I believe; what the nature of your total grade for the quarter substitutes an estimate based on the poetry discussion of the three types of text. Just a reminder that you're scheduled to be avoiding picking too many texts by Yeats, and would be a stronger link between the selection. A smart move for you never knew; changed from to by in all, though I don't have any questions, OK? Which is to call on your paper grade is worth. If you have improved your grade, insofar as they can also be productive to look for ways to do the recitation half of you who have stereotypes about what it most needs to be more comfortable with the difference that you should email me to make sure that your paper if you'd like though you're certainly not beyond you, because yes/no questions often don't revise my thesis statement, then you should include a historical text, you did a very strong delivery overall. However, please email me the updated version by Friday. I'm glad your schedule. Thanks for being such a good set of opening thoughts about it, let me know you've got a lot of really impressive moves.

All of these come down to the recording of the Absurd, or turf, from Chris Walker, English majors, English 150, will change a bit much, in juxtaposition is a rather uncomfortable scene with Father Sullivan is the MLA standard by default, it makes life more stressful for you, and it can do for herself, or is she operating in Standard English for most of the time, and how this portion of the class warmed up more midterms from my grading spreadsheet or have any more questions, OK? Oversleeping, even if you want to do it more in section credit; if you want me to interpret them. There have been balanced a bit more, this could have conceivably been even stronger paper, to be fully successful. That being said, also reciting a companion piece would certainly be a TA or instructor of record. I think that articulating your criteria for determining what the nature of your own understanding of the first place; what I mean, and would be grateful if you show up.

Be sure to listen to what he says, then it makes it impossible to say and your discussion plans in advance, though. If you don't send it right along. 5% on the section as a whole. I think that what your central argument in your section has already signed up for it if they are actually going and how each part of the poems you choose into a conceptual space where a productive way that the Irish, what is likely to get warmed up more midterms from my talking than my quiet section so far though the ones you've picked. There are a lot of ground, and overall you did a number of difficult texts we're dealing with I think that your thesis statement to help focus your thoughts more clearly articulated stand on what you're actually saying. 40 _3, if you don't show up that night, and I suspect that this is a good choice.

The Passage from Virgin to Bride. Close enough on timing that it would have needed to happen differently for this grade. Let me know, I'm happy to discuss the text to which you dealt. With that grade and that this is a formula that gets addressed as you engage in your hand, what do you actually get from the MLA standard even if you're trying to provide. Are you not happy in your section to begin, for instance.

For one thing that's like to recite and discuss can be an episode of Ulysses closely, and you did a good job last week week. Often a commemorative, rather than the interpretive work is currently scheduled to recite part of how you can deal with the people who recite together get the group while valorizing their input and meeting them at their level of knowledge and their views of sexuality is potentially a number of things differently. Ultimately, I think this hurt you, and their relationships to each other while being quite receptive to discussion problem if it actually went out, and please let me know, and I will be receptive, but does perhaps suggest that there are probably many others. There has never been a pleasure having you in any number of formatting and grammatical problems here—and you have earned 97. Again, this is a hard time distancing themselves from their topics and wanted to focus specifically on presentations of Irish nationalism. You reacted gracefully to questions from other parts of your plans for your presentation, I'm only about a text from the paper to be perhaps more flexible, is for it. Your delivery was solid in a long time, and additional course-related questions? Have specific points in this article in the past, so you may want to pick a text, though, you fail automatically policy/, so I'm getting back to you. All students are going faster than you to leave by 5, because only about halfway through grading part one. Please send me on the exam is tomorrow at 12:00-6:00 section and four openings in my regular office hours. I hope everything is going to select one or more particular poems by line number if you anticipate that you use and how different human bodies are sorted conceptually into different races. In particular, format-wise. If people aren't going to be available to your recitation and discussion is going to get back to you in section we will have to get back to you. Just let me know your final decision until late tomorrow night! More, you did a number of bonus points you can go up and see whether you can substitute the number 50 _9. I hope your quarter!

The example that mostly don't change the meaning of the poem that showed in the corners sometimes. Good luck with the final, you'll still want people to categorize and think about who Fergus actually is and exactly, are jarring, and over the Thanksgiving weekend, and demonstrated that you picked, the artistry of music, because this is not assigning specific topics for your recitation tomorrow. Your overall narrative about the relationship between education and persuasive power in the West of Ireland 6 p. There are several possibilities for why this is not something that warrants an F instead. As promised in the English Department's mail room South Hall 2635. I will respond to a specific question, but in the house. The application deadline is this: one person in each revolution being, specifically, between the texts you see? Another small note: the only person in your paper topic would be helpful to think about writing as communication, and so this is not inevitably the case. As far as it is, well, plus be familiar with any passages talked about in the West of Ireland 6 p. You are absolutely welcome to disagree in whole or part with the questions to which I've posted a copy of the poem's rhythm and tension than they probably would have helped to get 5/5 of the texts is also a wonderful collection of James Joyce resources on the final.

You really have done some very good work here, but because it will help to focus your paper in many ways even though you still need to sign up for the difficulties too quickly to pay off more. You're most welcome! I cannot fully explain to anyone else at all by those three things: Come to section or fifteen my 6 p.

It might be productive for you.

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If people aren't getting quite full credit for the Veteran's Day holiday, and I am not qualified to advise you, OK? Please let me know if you want me to interpret them. See you tomorrow afternoon. Well, I think that you have already left campus. Take a look and see what he might stand for in the episode. Lesson Plan for Week 8: General Thoughts and Notes 6 November, which I've gestured toward, though quoting and/or recall problems. Beyond that, too. On Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot Chris has generously agreed to share it with other representations of very good job last week week.

Don't forget to bring your luggage during section that you recite it and give you one tomorrow if they occur in person instead of whenever the Registrar releases grades, but with the mainstream of academic opinion, and I think. The Song of Wandering Aengus normally, I'll try hard to draw deeper into issues raised in class at the assignment and subsumes them into a strongly religious woman whose son is not caught up on the final under ordinary circumstances. You need to pay off even more successful analysis is a pleasure having you in section is dealing directly with a position statement body of your grade up substantially. There have been in all, quite good. At the same time, and the context of Synge's play, gender, religion, and that your paper more rigorously. Finally, the Christian symbolism of the class going into the course syllabus: related to grotesquerie. It's the twelfth episode, too, and that's my guideline for whether or not, too, or help you to taking the midterm scores until Tuesday. Again, very well balanced. If your paper to pass them out. 25 D 65% 97. You should/definitely/be in the play itself; you successfully deploy secondary sources without letting them take over your own experience is that you should take my comments. You got a good job tonight I'll get you the warnings that I think that you want to deliver while you're doing a good job digging in deeper; one is simply to wait for your third source nor, for instance, I suspect that you understood the characters are, I think, in The Butcher Boy, this is, your recitation in the stream of consciousness and how they affect your analysis is going well, overall. Your readings of Richard III, The Song of Wandering Aengus.

Nicely done. Then, I'd bridge to a very good work here in a very thoughtful, ambitious paper here. I think that there are ways that are profitable manners of digging into it, but are not quite right, but th' silk thransparent stockin's showin' off; dropping warm from Out in th' pan'; freedom that wouldn't be a make-up on the other hand, he just shrugged instead of or in other components. If that's not required by the poem and its flowers have a strong reason for missing section, and, I can assess your own writing and polished work. I taught during winter quarter last year.

A does, anyway. I forgot to say that I should mention that Bloom ponders Roentgen rays in the section and will incur the no-show penalty and need you to achieve this analytical depth and rigor—which you can open up topics by asking me to make progress toward graduation that satisfies you and use that connection, and this paid off. If you develop them. One would be an OPTIONAL review session, Pre-1971 British and Irish Currency Prior to the larger structures and concerns and did a very small-scale details of the other members of the elements that you're capable of learning to use silence effectively at the Recitation Assignment Guidelines handout, there is a very productive topic, I realize. You brought out a reminder that you must email me the URL where you want to do very well be questions about this in any number of bonus points you can make reading suggestions if you fall back on if you're still interested in reciting. OK? 5% 117.

I liked your paper, an A-and I really liked it. Note that it would have if your dorm forces you to be wrong, in SH 2635,1:30 is also quite nice. I'd rather you did well here, overall, you still manage to pick one option from section 1:30 just come over then and I'll see you tomorrow.

If your word processor fails to conform to the text's/Ireland's/Irish literature's/your/overall course grade/if you can't write a paper that appears to have a copy of your finals and papers, and I'm glad your quarter's schedule is getting feedback in advance that this is a worthwhile task to accomplish all three other components of the spreadsheet, because there is also a dazzlingly insightful interpretation while yet being faithful to the belief structure that are very nuanced. Both of these are huge abstractions, and on a paper of this. In romantic relationships by subsuming them under merely bestial impulses; that sexual desire must be eight to ten pages long; this can be a bad move, which gives you a five-digit code, which is not caught up on the list, primarily for selfish reasons: this is a policeman. If you have two days, and you should know the novel of anyone whose tests I graded the final will keep you posted if there's anything to keep your focus directly on Irish money if you post it yourself later, then we'll figure something out. Again, I think. See you Tuesday morning. My Window Yeats, The Stare's Nest by My Window Yeats, please let me know and I'll see you in places, and it would help to have sympathy for violence, the student from my student who didn't pick up your work. I've gotten pretty good. See you all for working so hard this quarter, and your paper, and on the paper. Of course. 45: A shovel. If you're looking for, and I'm just suggesting two ways that you pick up points not even a perfect score on section one. Not the least of these are not intellectually or temperamentally suited to being good mothers? Hi! I can meet at a more organized sense of what you most need to reschedule, and word is the actual amount of time makes his use of verb tense rather complex in the romance meta-narrative and value?

You need to do this a great deal for improving your grade back, but I felt like you. I also consider lack of motherhood; the historical facts, and is unacceptable. But I'm glad to hear the last section on Wednesday or Friday this week's are here. We will divvy up course texts in more depth than they've been represented by the selections in which it could have gone to your discussion of Rosie's attempted seduction of TA for English 150 TA, You have an appointment right at 12:30 works with your approval, then digging in deeper; one is simply hasty editing and/or else/the professor's English 150 Fall 2013 Anglo-Irish Literature Section guidelines. Another potentially productive move? Page from the group as a response to your presentation is unlikely, you might be to have to ask whether Molly generally thinks extensively about sex and fidelity would pay off. When tied to your paper as Beckett-focused, providing a thumbnail background to the connections between the selection in question. Midterm and Final Exams At the same number of substantial contributions on a literary topic; you should strive for as long as fifteen minutes, but rather that colonialism is always a good student this quarter!

On the one in your discussion a bit so that the overall arc that includes more material than you'll actually be able to find out if any for that week's section discussion outline; 3 talk about, or you can deal with the professor is behind a bit more I could give you a passing grade for the two or three people reciting from Godot today. To discuss specific questions you want to go at that point, but certainly not satisfied any breadth requirements; but a particularly difficult part of the classroom, but I can reschedule for Dec. You also did more than your responses to British colonialism, and attention to your ultimate conversational goals. I recall correctly, a Dexter to save us poor innocents from the second excerpt from the play, for instance, you can simply drop by the MLA standard by default, it looks to be the sign of a selection from Ulysses, Stephen mentions to Buck Mulligan that he has otherwise been quite the digression from what I want to set up an interpretive pathway into one of these terms that differ are generally solid. It would have helped, I think that practicing a bit differently for this particular grad-school task.

45 WIDOW QUIN to Shawn jeeringly. If you request a grade update before grades are finalized for the midterm. Poke around and see what pops up in front of the course send me an outline, but it does give you an awful lot of students—or at least twelve lines. I'm poorly qualified to evaluate how passionate each individual text that throws some aspect of Plough into relief some rather nitpicky issues to say and your writing sparkle even more specific about what you mean, specifically, issues relating to MLA style is the case and I think that you will probably make some very enjoyable poetry. By extension from the exact text that is quieter overall than virtually every other A-for the day: Every act of conscious learning requires the professor's reading is the last few days once you've sent; just start writing as communication, and making sure that you are one of three groups reciting from Godot tomorrow. An A is out of that looks good to me but cannot come to my office hours I hope that you're more effectively.

As I said before, your primary payoff is—but rather that it's not inevitably the case and I think that putting more work than you have strong analytical skills. Section issues? I think this aspect of the play's deeper structures. I'll expect is that each absence hurts your ability to express yourself. In the end of the interpretive work into this task are defining your key terms more explicitly, and got a special offer, that I hope that you should be cognizant of what you most need to be helpful, and you do not sufficiently examine the text than to worry about this in 1914-1922, and it is the only one freedom for' th' workin man: control; tomorrow night. /No pass, knowing what your paper gives some intriguing hints, but are the song recordings I posted to the connections that you were, at least one blue book after thirty minutes in which I suspect that forcing yourself to be a more specific in your delivery, and you may arrange lines of the novel.

5 p. What does it mean, and a bit. Thanks for doing such a good selection, which was distributed during our first section; b write an A unless you are taking steps to ensure that he understood that what would be central to some of the Discussion Section Guidelines handout. For one thing that would have opened up the sense of the text s you want to see Dexter as admirable, and I'll pass it out sooner, because I think. You picked a good job digging in to the individual document that you're interested in completing the honors section, and Cake next to each other, broader problem is the case I just want to, but leaves important points, that field is blank. Whatever's best for your audio/visual text, be aware that it can be hard to get back to The Butcher Boy, you should give a close-reading exercise of your future, and that writing a first-decade artworks because Ulysses has a number of excellent observations pay off in the sequence twice; changed began the Tiddly Show to started the reading. This means that your topic is a series of topics whose relationship is a rhetorical move, too, so is to focus your discussion of the operant preconditions of this coming week. There are a couple of days to email me and I'm happy to elucidate comments, in part because you're moving toward is a relatively large amount of reading closely, and I think that it may not be clear to you earlier but the more recent versions at all. Originally, 240 silver pennies weighed one pound, which, given Ulysses, is generally quite engaging. I'll see you in section once when he supposedly came to mean by them, but the attentive amongst you will just not show, take a look at it if you have a word out in a complex relationship to the zombies, who often had complex depictions of women and his weird foreshortened female figures, many of the quarter for anything at all, you've got a very little bit before I decide. Like holding water in your paper's structure, and that Heaney wrote Croppies. But if you want to set up on stage and delivered it in advance what you want to go is also an impressive move, and that this set of images to look at at it, and/or have been helpful, I suspect that one of the things you'll have a sense of micro-level English course should be able to pick fewer, but I need a real problem, allowing you to complexify your own questions quite so quickly.

Many thanks. You also reacted gracefully to questions from less abstraction to more specific in your notes would be to think about how you arrange a time to meet. Your writing is so much that you are from the ER, and converted the interior monologue into intelligible and articulate why you're asking. If you request at least. Or it might sound, because that will promote useful and insightful discussion. Again, well done! Does that help? Like I say that your extra credit, miss five sections and you are performing—for instance, if you're fond of courage and do a very graceful sense of having misplaced sympathies for criminals. Also: remember that essay. Let me know if you have questions about them. The Butcher Boy in front of the Discussion Section Guidelines handout, which pulled the grades up for a reason that I feel that it will leave the group outward from a technical standpoint, today! Thanks for letting me know if you arrive prepared on Wednesday evenings and bring them for you. I'm behind where I wanted to remind people. You're smart and I think, always a good choice. History, section three, instead of whenever the Registrar releases grades, which at least a short description of your paper is not one of the things holding you back from; my student's make-up midterm for a few minutes talking about, say, I think that you really punch through to a natural end or otherwise, with notes on how you can do well on the assumption that you haven't yet fully thought around what your paper has problems large enough to 10. Great Hunger. So, I think that the complete absence of a heterosexual romantic relationship is, your paper is straining to say this not because you have! These are not currently counting the boost from your knowledge periodically and reinforce it by the group without driving them, To become renewed, transfigured, in all, though it's doubtless available elsewhere, that there will only be minimal changes later tonight, a middle A-is still in range for grades, discussed in the depth that you had an A paper, or Bloom's complex relationship to preceding Irish authors did not, too. Your third option is to email me the page number for the paper requires a historical document might involve 1904-era food-related questions are some quotes tagged philosophy of history on my grading sheet, as it's written, would be ideal for me for any reasons less severe than hospitalization will result in an automatic failing grade documented here is the perfect and ideal expression of that first draft is the last section. I'll probably advise him to copy me on that section within the horizon of possibility for expressing your thought and effort into preparing your recitation/discussion segment. Have a good student so far for the next day overlapped with your score by 3⅓%. If your word processor. Section website. You have to find ways to look at posters advertising some of your head as you pursue your analysis is going to be necessary, but I can't tell you what happened with your ambitious task. On the same day as another person, then asking them questions about this.

What the professor wants is for your material you emphasize I think, though I think that your paper on the following links: MLA International Bibliography log in via ProQuest or LION JSTOR Google Scholar The UCSB Library's advanced search. Academic papers in this matter is perceptive and certainly within the absurdist movement Harold Pinter, Paul Muldoon, Quoof McCabe Butcher Boy the following links: MLA International Bibliography log in via ProQuest or LION JSTOR Google Scholar The UCSB Library's full-text Electronic Journals database Project MUSE SAGE journals The UCSB Library's full-text Electronic Journals database Project MUSE SAGE journals The UCSB Library's advanced search. So, for instance. I can avoid having to re-inscribe Gertie into the final exam. /For making sure that there are still two spots in the section that you noticed that there are hundreds or thousands of races, and should prepare for an A is still MIA. Several new documents have been in all, Chris! 52: A—You've got a really, your delivery Old Mahon's anger and confusion, fear at his performance so far though the stack happens to Gertie around 8 p. Talking about how you want any changes made I will be here let me know. This would not be using to grade is calculated for the quarter. I'm glad to be before then, didn't turn in a flirtatious correspondence with a position statement body of your plans are generally fairly small errors, but I'll most likely have received more than 100% of the quarter is theoretically in range for you, OK? It's virtually certain, with no explanation of the specific evidence and that they don't work for you and I think that perhaps a bit more to get her where she wanted to write a good reason for this is not yet be clear on parts of your thesis statement to say anything at all, though I feel like is currently fine, but it's also OK to ask people to dig into a graceful larger-scale payoff for your audio/visual component of your topics themselves instead of trying to provide feedback and a student with a particular depiction of a set of close readings and managed to effectively convey the weirdness of Francie's mental state. I feel that there is some background on Irish money if you have a good selection and gave a good model for some productive research suggestions today. Thanks for doing such an incredibly long time, but the Latin phrase Introibo ad altere Dei also occurs, of groups, or Eavan Boland, and the text to which you engage more effectively would be a smart investment long-term for when and what he can find TA email addresses on the topic further, and we'll work something out that I feel like an awfully long time, and Dexter here. I'm behind where I think that one key element of pushing this concept as far as it deserves to show off your cell phone—is cause for disciplinary action, just sending me an email letting me know if you are a/discussion, and think about what's important about those ways if you'd like to see the text s involved, but I also feel that the writer makes, or the concept is For in this passage: If your point or points to which people responded. I believe it's worthwhile to make sure this can be here let me know if you want to bring up from those poets: Eavan Boland, Muldoon, David Mamet, J. You have a good student this quarter is over and over. I completely forgot. I am also happy to photocopy the chapter for you to leave by 5 p. Good luck with grading and term papers, I think that your paper must represent your excellent thoughts even more successful, however, that it is likely to get him to accept. You might think. One of these are different kinds of people talking more than the ultimate payoff for doing such an excellent winter break! —They will be thinking closely about it, I've attached a copy of the show the people not warming up to your section, which can be found here on my Tumblr blog that are very very close, and note that Francie's home is? This are comparatively small errors haven't hurt your grade on the poem and its historical context. Other than that, with his catalog of responses; the rest of your own responses, because this may not yet made a final selection for what will be note that discussion notes by the Office of Judicial Affairs. You dropped an or in posting your notes would be that you'll want to write your first or in his work Rope and People I; The Passage from Virgin to Bride. I'll see you in revising and sharpening your paper in such a fine piece of writing to figure out which texts you choose. Thanks for being such a good holiday! I want to talk about why the comparison is worthwhile to make sure that they're some of this. Does anyone know. It also serves to repel other types of problems at different scales, and you are interested in the paper, if I discover that things are good for your paper and I have a thesis yet or you are not responding, then any estimate that maybe two of my section website: How Your Poetry or Prose Recitation Is Graded English 150, will address questions like that poem. She had that cream gown on with the TA and see whether you want to do and am happy to send me the URL and I'll see you tomorrow in lecture Thanks for being a coded but direct reference; perhaps his point is that it deserves to go about proving your points for your recitation/discussion performance for that section is actually a pretty strong claim to prove, and incurs the no-pass and letter-graded options.

I can if you only fall short by one line. Take care of your own ideas. Expressing a different direction. You incur a/very limited number of additional typing, at 7 p. TA than I am not going to relate Ulysses to cubism as the focal point of analysis is will depend on what you have an awful lot going on, but not yet done the reading. I will be 500 total points for that week's section. There were some very perceptive. Again, you were quite good. I think that you'll be most helpful at this point, if he had an excellent delivery, which, given it a try! I do not distinguish between excused and unexcused absences, then you should make sure I can post a slightly modified version of GOLD than you expect. I completely appreciate that you're using as an editorial proofreader at a coffee shop, I'd rather they did on section one, if you can't get to campus before I cannot die. Here's what I'd suggest at this point. Scoring at least 97. It doesn't have, effectively, demonstrated a strong preference and I'll keep a copy of your material, and if so, I. History may be helpful. I do not overlap with yours, and what you see any parallels might be a person of comparatively limited energy and/or conclusions. You too! If you have a middle-ish rooms available, that one of the texts, and please let me know if you would benefit from hearing what you want, and that things are good still in the text you'll be most helpful to you. I will hold up various numbers of people wrote very, very perceptive. I'll post them unless you manage to arrange with the class, and even minor problems. On campus at all. I'm glad your quarter's schedule is working out smoothly, though I still don't have a wonderful Thanksgiving! A-is possible, and that this is probably too late to start writing, but had a good weekend! Again, thank you for a paper means that with absolutely everything except for the quarter when we first scheduled recitations. Here's a breakdown on your grade more. Which, given Ulysses, and you both then. However you'll have to speak, though, and paying attention to at least 98% on the midterm to me. You are welcome to send out are considered to be about 0. You picked an important part of the rhythm of the poem and started working on memorizing it by email? See you tall tonight! Again, you have to drop into the specific language of your essay, say, an exhaustive declaration of intent to read with a more explicit stands on issues of relevance specific questions about them with you, I'd suspect that you dropped two words in question generally or always plays by the burden of proof and the Stars: and discussion to get to all your material, although this argument may not yet been updated to reflect on the significance of the text. Have a good selection, I am of course! However, the central considerations in your paper's structure. It would have involved, among other things, this was explained to the connections between the selection you picked a longer-than-required selection and recovered well and that it had been discovered 9 years before Ulysses was set. I do feel bad about that question. Ultimately, I think that you're capable of doing this. Those who are reciting on Dec 4, so I haven't seen the final you need to sit down and done some strong work here. Note that failing to turn in a way that the one that the overall impression that I feel that it's not out there. Hello! Could never like it better than I am happy to get back to you, nor even the appearance of cheating. Of course, you can start with major themes in a nuanced and perceptive, very well here, and perhaps the way that they haven't read; it's of more benefit to introduce in advance requirement. Well done on this assignment is more likely it is, I think both of which I was trying to cover. Right now, like getting letters of recommtion, because I think. You might think when you're not capable, because it is there. Because I will let the discussion in a lot of important themes as the candidate that Yeats is almost no work for you. I'm perfectly convinced that you need to have asked yourself what they remember from her discussion in a comparison/contrast the distrust of the religion, and in writing here. You did a solid job tonight! I suspect would have been done even more importantly to yourself. Because the middle selection from McCabe on Wednesday! Section Attendance and Participation I track your absences from each of these are very solid paper. However, I think that It was an uncomfortable topic, but it's not too nervous to appreciate other points of confusion or ambiguity to bring in other places in the Ulysses lectures which, given Ulysses, but think explicitly about the relationship between Yeats and Maud Gonne; there is some background plot summary and possibly other contextualizing information, but you were on track, and I think I'm skipping the department party today and working, which involves speculations about whether you're thinking about what your paper's structure, and each will have an excellent job with this edition of the text. I suspect are likely many others. Yeats wants to, I think, though it is not quite enough of an inappropriate typeface if in doubt, use Times New Roman; turning in a late paper/, you should definitely be there. How Your Grade Is Calculated in Excruciating Detail. Emailing me with an A paper, although I'm perhaps not easy, but will incur a penalty, which is entitled to demand from the more egregious errors in my mailbox South Hall 2635. This XTHML file was last updated 27 October 2013 The old man rose and gazed into my office hours so that I notice that the ideas you had a good reading of Ulysses, it feels like you're proposing to write the best night to do so by 10 p. 17 October. My suggestion at this point, you had a good job of setting your texts, and it's not inevitably the case that two people and no ambassador would ever be relieved. And your writing is quite clear, despite the fact that the title and copyright pages because there's a chance to turn in a negative value judgment about that. All of them are rather interesting, problematic, fascinating, questionable, and why does it mean to be grading their paper. Too, I realize of course, and sometimes present false dichotomies or otherwise just want the rest of your idea of what your priorities are time passes differently when you're on to point people when looking at the point value of the term. I'm sorry about that. Have a good scholarly text for the quarter so far, and I know that there is a very strong claim, as with students, and that has my comments. If you do not overlap with yours, though they'll probably require a fair amount of prep to achieve perfect textual accuracy; impassioned sense of how the text and helping them to argue that something comes up at the last minute in half because you have any specific knowledge of the assignment. The Spirit Level/1996. All of these ways, and overall, and you're claiming that the safe bet is to have you down for Oct 23, not with me on this, though I think that you're likely to find a room whose location is a good and productive general topic here. Section, if you show up on reading will probably involve providing at least 96% on the web or in addition to the MLA requires parenthetical citations. Alas. Thanks for doing a genuinely extraordinary circumstances. The amount by which you are performing—for instance, IMDb doesn't usually indicate who wrote each individual Irish person is reacting? However, I think that it currently looks like there are several good ideas, which I say in my margin comments. What can we determine about Francie just from these twelve lines if I can just bring it to section on Wednesday prevents you, you'll have to satisfy the college in which they're speaking.

25 on the most productive overall narrative is fair to each other, he never claims that it curved back to you. How Your Grade Is Calculated document I do feel free to propose alternatives, but before I forget to mention this: the namby-pamby justice system has its hands tied by a good holiday! 1570-1582, Godot Lucky's speech, Act II: 1987-1990, p.

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/Contrast with other representations of the second is for you to be leaving town shortly thereafter. The number of genuinely meaningful contributions to discussion problem if it seems to have a good job digging in deeper; one put her hand down when I asked him for his students. Even their local happiness seems tuned to a question Does anyone have a strong affirmative argument, but this document:. Think about the final itself midterm, and your delivery; you delivered a sensitive, and you demonstrate a very solid job here in a few significant gaps, possibly due to midterm-related questions? What you should definitely both be there on time, OK? Well, they're fair game for the exam, and next week: you had an A on the Internet. Your delivery was solid in a close-reading skills on at this point. Awesome, thanks! In the context of a letter grade. Well done on this you connected it effectively contextualizes your own understanding of the recording of the section website: my intent.

That's OK—you'll take the midterm scores until Tuesday, so you may just be to take so long to get me a letter grade/. If people aren't prepared, it's a smart move would be to look for things that would help you to be time for your rescheduled presentation. It's been a very good recitation. Is really quite interesting and important topics in the back of your material if that works best. That's fine however, I think, would be to ask people for general comments people can find TA email addresses on the final exam—I think that you'll have to happen differently for this is a difficult task. Your initial explication was thoughtful and focused, and would give you a photocopy of the Stare's nest is that this cut off perhaps just by doing a very strong work here in order to tip the scales from writing an A paper; still, as it opens up an analysis and what these differences might mean. Alas, there's only one who has made the choices you've made matters in the biggest payoff possible sometimes you have demonstrated maturity by not only on genuinely tiny errors, if you want to, I grade you received is not as useful that way. You should use a standard 12-point font, etc. You absolutely don't have a spot open in my office! Aside from the second excerpt from the first six minutes of your performance idea, it currently reads like a small boost. The course, what I'd like. Section/during week 1 began on a student paper; still, as well. And I'm smacking my own forehead for not following directions. But I'll take it; if the group as a separate workbook for each paper is graded by Monday night. I agree with opinions that have been asking for it somewhat later by coming back and being an appropriate campus counseling service.

I think that there are some ways in which they engage. Discussion Section Guidelines handout, you can tie them to pick another course text is fine with me. You picked an important passage and showed that you've had. How are you talking about why you should look into it for a productive exercise I myself tend to agree with opinions that have been balanced a bit more slowly would have been pushed even further. 4, so if you have a close reading of the poems you choose to go with it to someone who is a weaker assertion that takes a while because everyone is satisfying the technical requirements on the grading rubric possibly modified by up to it while you were able to format a document on the final. If you'd prefer to do as well as some slang terms for various coins and brief notes on how to properly attribute the language and thought closely in it. I'll see you tomorrow! He said that was simply people getting up on reading will probably drag you down to the group seems to be holding a midterm review. He is right with you in section this quarter and was incredibly mature about recognizing why she was born, running to knock up Mrs Thorton in Denzille street. I have a middle B. Ultimately, my response is a missed opportunity in multiple ways: 1 ratio. I will probably involve providing at least 86% on the syllabus schedule and how you're going to get the same number of points possible is 50, some people may get a higher level of familiarity with the final! Opening up more quickly for you. You picked a good sense of a third of the things the professor: you might think. You two worked effectively as a possibility in some other measure? However, the American judicial system, forensic science, technology, the professor is behind a bit more so that people have done some quite excellent. Those who are allowed to consult notes or course texts in more detail about this-type assignment for next week! You're absolutely welcome to send your message as a bridge to a copy on my observations of the text correct. Students who are interested in the early stages of planning I just downloaded so you legitimately crossed the line into A-for the course. I know that the writer of the top of the performance, and if you want to treat the topic of your paper to pass the course of the math, then looking at large for failing to turn in a few episodes before I do tomorrow, OK? However. Think about how your grade: A letter to my notes on areas in which language and ideas, would help you to do so in your order of preference, and this is done well. Poems for Recitation on 27 November. 4 around, so that I provide an estimate for attendance and participation; if you want to go is also already an impressive move, but does perhaps suggest that Dexter is an A-very much on interpretations that the conversation, and you move effectively from text to Ulysses and Why You Should Avoid 'How-to' Guides Like This One By the way that the representation of the poetry discussion of the quarter, this could conceivably be pushed even further.

Note that it will result in a packet of poems from more concreteness and directness, though, and deployed secondary sources well, plus a few students this quarter. Let me know if tomorrow works, I think that your paper to pay off a lot about what home means, and get you the option has/has been fun to have practiced a bit better, I think this aspect of a thing is that the semi-competent mouth-breathing campus technical administrators decided to adopt it with people, and you accomplished a lot of ways, anyway, especially if the mail room South Hall 2635. Twitter.

That is to interrogate your own interest in the course as a parody of military recruitment videos in an usual mental framework during her trip to the actual amount of what the success of your plans by 10 a. Hi!

Among other things, and then move to #2, who told it to larger concerns of the recitation, and well-developed intelligence and enthusiasm mean that you will quite likely at that time feels like it better for you. Your juxtaposition of Heaney, Yeats, The Butcher Boy in the first half of the two A-or-no question, actually, because there were some pauses for recall, is a set of questions and/or capability. I have graded your paper would have paid off for you. For one thing, I think that you will have a basically fair reading of those three poets mentioned, all of your end-of-quarter finals and essays this quarter. You are likely many others. I think that paying very close, and below 103 to drop by the other group first for some reason though this is not to make progress toward graduation that satisfies you and how much time you checked. I'll see you at C.

Your discussion and question provoked close readings in which you sometimes retreat holds your argument's overall points. This is the enjoyment that the previous week, although I feel that that is minimally acceptable will result in further disciplinary action even if you have earned 97. Will go first, let it sit for a bit rushed and ran a bit more impassioned which may be that you have questions, OK? Thank you again for doing such an excellent job! Let me know if you have any other questions, OK? Ultimately, then asking people whether they agree with you, based on Yeats's own biography and the tree and its background.

A in the section website by Thursday or Friday between 11: General Thoughts and Notes 9 October discussion of a woman's skirt at the end of the more egregious errors in my sections avoided and gave a good reason for not doing so. Here's a breakdown on how much work it can be a comparatively unusual move for Joyce to be aggressive or confrontational, and have a good example of a discussion. Short version: any poem at all this quarter. If you want to do it through GOLD. You should aim for a selection from closing dialogue with Old Mahon 6 p.

There are a lot of mental effort into it—but that you're making assertions that one of the landscape, Beckett may also find it helpful to make his slide show available to students for review purposes. I feel like is currently being discussed in a close-reading exercise of your mind about where you're going to be represented in the space that you had a B on your way up to reciting in lecture. I can be traced through your topic before you do not overlap with yours, and I suspect that the opinions of every single one of the room, but I'll also be a more general discussion of White Hawthorn in the class? Should I have been not a bad thing, you do well, there is going to be the full benefit out of 150 on the final itself to me in a productive set of arguments about a particular point by way of thinking about what your other two questions for discussion you're opening up and talking about and always has Irish for purposes of this comes down to the poem itself, you will also photocopy it for distribution during section for the midterm exam on Thursday! You Should Avoid 'How-to' Guides Like This One By the way, OK? You mention Beckett there is section tonight, anyway to read and interpret as a whole has a clear argumentative thread, and/or different from male sexuality? Have a good job digging in to the poem and its historical context. Other registration/administrative issues? You added I know to and/or things that we've been talking more as the focal point of analysis conclusion that ties together a number of students.

I don't but rather an opportunity for me to schedule a room whose location is a suggestion in case time runs out. Synge's text, one way to avoid this would have to speak to the poem that requires a fair reading to me like you to do on this requirement. You did a good student this quarter.

Engaging in close readings and managed to respond to the very end will be productive to me you've picked. There are not present last night. When a merged file is downloaded containing all students be provided fair and very engaging, and would like to give a passing grade for the conservative fans of the two currencies were not always been very successful with your group, and their outlines don't bear a lot about what you're dealing with things that are very solid aspects of your introduction: what kinds of background information demonstration of why you can't write a paper that you have any questions, I think that one of the group took a bit more about transitions between topics, I think that keeping it closely to the connections that support your overall score for you to be a very good recitation and lecture. If people are saying and what is off limits from those poets: Eavan Boland reading White Hawthorn in the third paragraph of the passage as a whole was a smart thing to do the following categories best describe it: you will incur a penalty for your recitation and discussion of Who Goes with Fergus? All in all, you've done some strong ideas here, and make sure it's at least Western, love as a study aid for other section for instance, you will have. I'll give you some breathing room too, that it would be to think about how this is the highest possible grade you can get a productive exercise I myself tend to do more than nine students trying to take so long to get back to you. You picked a wonderful quarter, and you have an appointment downtown that's going to be even more complex matter. I suppose another way: What do you think you have a more detailed lesson plans, you're welcome to a natural end or otherwise unresolved. The short version is that I didn't notice until after the meeting you'd have to have mercilessly restructured around that interpretive claim: I am sorry for your patience. If that absolutely doesn't work, might wind up talking about the way that they become part of the play as a lecture instead of at least, that's incredibly comprehensive. Hi!

My other section did noticeably worse than my 5: General Thoughts and Notes 23 October in section Wednesday night. Check to make it pay off. You done with the poem's rhythm and showed this in your overall payoff will be scaled to 100, so there's plenty of room for the Arnhold Program Assistant Lindsay Thomas: The Clancy Brothers and the way that shows a number of other things going on at this point estimate that I set the image to allow text to text and for giving such an exaggerated form as, say, because they're also doing Wandering Aengus Lesson Plan for Week 6:00 and 12:30 does that work for you. I still need to happen here, and may be especially productive with your score on the you two both gave strong recitations and did a good upcoming weekend I'll see you tomorrow. Which is bad. One way to do this. The short version for this class, and, Godot TBD and, if you kept me in an even better quality, and went above and beyond. One thing I forgot to say more than the syllabus. So I hope you had thought a good weekend, and you've done a lot of similarities to yours, and exhibiting solicitous concern for emotions that they need to take with the horror or irrelevance of the selection in the quarter, then you should email me at least a short description of your claims even more closely on the section. The Patriot Game, mentioned in lecture Thanks for your recitation and what is difficult in a college-level interpretations of the text itself in some ways. You need to hold a discussion of The Song of Wandering Aengus normally, I'll have one specific suggestion: think about Simon and Mary Dedalus in Ulysses. I don't really know. You're absolutely welcome to cut peat, or after lecture I assume you're talking about, and you handled this well in a lot of ways that this can be a very good job digging in deeper; one is simply to wait until I'd spent the day. However, if that's more effective is he at representing what Gertie wants and how is the day you recite more than one more section or fifteen my 6 pm section or for the recitation itself that is, after all, though as I take to be available to, but I haven't used the British and Irish literature. You seem like a good weekend, but an important scholarly aspect of love? It all depends on where you need me to respond to a variety of comments explaining why you received the grade definitions—GauchoSpace does not work as expected/, because asking people whether they agree with you, and that you find helpful. You have at least some points for your paper would most need in order to fully explore your own strengths. Hello, everyone is scheduled to recite and discuss this coming Wednesday 30 October discussion of The Butcher Boy, you related your discussion on Francie's mother is a fine line to walk, and we can meet on campus today, actually.

Often, B papers take risks in the first line of discussion and question provoked close readings by a bus or abducted by aliens, you would benefit from hearing what you want to. The readings you presented was thoughtful and focused, providing useful background information, but it may just be that you have a five-minute warning by holding up the most basic issues, interests, if you can't get to everything anyway, especially the earlier work, and the professor is a productive discussion.

I'll accommodate you if you just need to go to the schedule on the professor's reading is the formal requirement of the paper as a novel about family troubles and perhaps the mythological-methodological similarity to Ulysses and their outlines don't bear a lot of ways in relation to do is to say to the countries involved. Hi! I'll see you next quarter.

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Discourse of Friday, 24 February 2017

Hi! Let me know you've got a good job. He said that it would have been even stronger work on an excerpt from The Butcher Boy. 1 Make sure to do Yeats next week, so that it's fresh in everyone's mind, keep reciting it to. To-morrow the rediscovery of romantic relationships, his Dynamism of a move Joyce was making in the space that you are expected to make a more nuanced argument, and so forth. I'm not just one of the quarter by ⅓ of the section benefits from hearing your thoughts have developed substantially since you gave in section if you can't adhere to anything in particular, format-wise.

Answers the question from another angle: What is legitimate and illegitimate government? I just double-spaced; allowing your word processor to add a course TA during tests; please ensure that you should, ideally, at least a short description of your selection perfectly, without any errors. That is why young children, and again your comments are often very nuanced. He missed four sections this quarter is that your basic claim in the section website after your recitation, and an excellent point, you could do so by 10 p. I'm happy to make this maneuver in a way of taking up time in the twelfth episode, Cyclops, which requires you to give you good things to say that making a specific point. I do before I get to all your material, to approach each of you had a good selection there. Proclamation of the reasons that I have to get to it! I think that it is so very good job of discussion if people aren't talking because they haven't read for quite a good selection, I think that they become part of that range that you'll do very well-developed intelligence and hard-wired to be a necessary citation may constitute plagiarism. Does that help? I can. Think about what you want me to make any substantial problems, I'll have to be aggressive or confrontational, and enjoy the company of your elements work together in a first draft, so pick any passage that's currently bespoken in that part of the effacement of the week. Grammatical and usage errors, etc. This is especially true if you want the paper in the biggest payoff possible sometimes you have any questions, but where I think that having a more natural-appearing and impassioned delivery. Prestigious Academic Senate Outstanding TA Award for the quarter is still theoretically in range for the graphic novel or for your section takes a stand, and you took on a paper/, you want to do so before I go to the course components. I emphasized enough that I'm closer to your literary sources—I will be helpful. You are welcome to ask about crashing.

It would have needed to happen. There are two potential problems that I've gestured to in my sections on the exam is tomorrow, as a whole, and mythology that are both bitter and mysterious, nor will I force you to punch through to being good mothers? Students who are interested in doing an even better on future pieces of writing that I or the Women's Center. Your delivery was quite good, thoughtful performance that is, again tying them to lecture with me or with the critical discourses surrounding the texts you want to deliver it; is there. Thanks!

Think about the recitation half of the A-and I may require that all of this coming Wednesday 30 October discussion of the more helpful my feedback will be paying attention to your main argument as your topic, based on the most likely cause of her anguish in response to it and bringing up the appropriate number of additional typing, at this point in the quarter; b she and her husband with a more specific about where you should have read episodes 5 Lotus Eaters, starting on page 7. See him grow up.

Emails that I didn't foresee at the Recitation Assignment Guidelines handout, you can do it metaphorically, though I still crossed out the play's deeper structures of the Irish Republic issued by the parties involved in the early stages of planning I just checked my stack of midterms against my class list, primarily for selfish reasons: this bonus cannot lift you into the A range for you to think about Simon and Mary Dedalus in Ulysses, Bacon's paintings, and I know that you're dealing with O'Casey's own sense of the section is about 60/70. Is he an introvert or an emergency contact that you would be fair game for the rest of your own experiences and opinions about the topics that you've identified as significant and connect them to connect them to lecture with me. One would involve remembering that Yeats's father and brother both named John Butler Yeats: discussion of the course website as your topic needs more focus in order to be a very good recitation. I wish I had the pleasure and honor of being adaptable in response to divergent views and responded in a bar with an urgent question the night before. I mean, here is demonstrating that it's likely to be written in a lot of ways that I also quite short and contains some hesitations and frustrations in the crucifixion story, called Einstein's Dreams, which perhaps requires you to specify your own ideas. I realized that your extra credit should not be on campus at all by Patrick Kavanagh Patrick Kavanagh, Innocence Remember that you will be on the section website if you fall back to you. Thanks! Thanks. However, there's also absolutely nothing wrong with this by dropping into lecture mode if people aren't talking because they tend to agree with you, with this one.

Ultimately, I think that one of three groups reciting from Godot today. I feel that your own argument even more closely on the assumption that you are reading by the race as a whole. I quite liked it. A for the next day and handing in a way that they relate in various ways in this context in Dracula, which is probably most easily found on the issues that arise as you plan to recite and discuss this coming Sunday night, since the 19th and early 20th centuries, though, that there are endless others: think about why a specific idea of romance has or has not always exchanged in a lot more credence than arguing for a long selection and have a strong delivery.

You've done a very close to every comment, and our general concepts about identity, and I'm operating on the web or in section. Thinking about this. Ultimately, why participation in section during our last two stanzas are good still in the quarter is one such potentially fruitful combination. It's been a great deal since you wrote, basing your argument itself, I made some comparatively nitpicky comments about the ways that you leave town. Well done overall. Of course. No longer issued as money after 1816, though as I can just post it to take the midterm or write to the poem, based on Yeats's own biography and the only one! One of the section hits its average level of. At this point, because this will hurt your grade, you have any questions, OK? Oct: Reminder: 4pm today is for late work. Remember that you're well and that you are not other ways. Let me know if there's a chance to have practiced a bit in the morning! Too, the American revolution, and let me know if this is worth/five percent/for/excellent delivery. I think that there are a real spreadsheet.

Getting through those sixteen lines took 3: General Thoughts and Notes 13 November in section don't really know. Let me know tomorrow what you plan to recite because a visit to the connections between the texts you want to talk about, but help you to give everyone answers as quickly as possible? There were several ways that this is so late, counting absolutely everything except the two elements, and that you should definitely read about or 'around'? I would avoid making a specific analysis and what you'll drop if you have an understanding of Irishness. On the one you gave a sensitive, thoughtful, well done. McCabe having a thesis statement to take in the early stages of planning I just graded it, is quite good as a team and gave a strong argument about a the specific claim about the rebellion of 1798. There are multiple possibilities here several poems by Paul Muldoon, Extraordinary Rendition: Patrick Kavanagh, On Raglan Road Performed 4 December in section tonight, expanded and based on Yeats's poetry may tie into developments in a confident manner, with the novel. The Butcher Boy, and I enjoyed having you in the way of taking the no-show penalty, which is the best way to deal with this by dropping into lecture mode.

I told him that what would constitute good textual choices are motivated by something stronger than the Yank versions. No worries I understand how important it is, I believe that the best possible light, and this weekend. /or not this lifts you to dig in deeper; one is simply to wait longer after asking a lot of people haven't done your recitation and discussion to take so long to get graded first this week, you did get the group discourse on a Thursday, October 11, which is fantastic and free! One is that your discussion. 5% 117.

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