substitute_e_o_i substitute e_o_i This title was intended to convey the good news, which is that yesterday's interview went well and I am now signed up as a substitute teacher to a school that has student art on their walls, which seems to me a good sign, and that they pay better than the tutoring, but of course the teaching won't be as regular and I'm kind of nervous about being in front of a class full of actual high school students, not imaginary ones... ...but then I wondered: how easy am I (or "e_o_i") to impersonate? Seems to me rather easy. I mean, I could even impersonate myself: ... A LETTER FROM JAMES JOYCE TO AMERICA, MINUS THE DIRTY BITS Ineluctable modality of the visible means freedom is the freedom to do math! -Noam Chomsky Hi America! What's up? Where's Gertrude Stein? Is she still doing ads for Ford? Let's home not. (I left that typo in on purpose, I swear. I did not mean to say a naughty world.) The flowers of theramin dreidels percolate in insoluble fiber as her skirts sweet through the streets of sweeper mines. Drone sources gargle monotone highways, yet her smile lights up my solar panels and her eyes laser welts of primal pain in pressure-induced eczema. I never have time to write. That has nothing to do with doing dishes. Kirsten, I did dishes yesterday. You did dishes tonight. Kirsten! Are you sure you don't want to? You're not being very communicative. This argument is ridiculous. I'll do them myself. (Phew. Stanislaus is finally out of here. Don't know why he insists on calling me "Kirsten." Did you know that name means "Spiderman's girlfriend" in Arabic?) Writing down everything I hear. Kurt Browning if you want to medal contention. Only one successful. Here in Sochi now heading into Sochi. Kurt, is that still the case? Back to back to back. Mental strength still a favourite out of this competition if you looked like him into a triple axel. He took all the air out of the building. We expect as many as ten men this evening. The American very slow strike composes Jason dungeon just last month. Build off that success subpar Olympic failed a fire. We're talking someone who off of the ice is one personality. Turn off the light in the kitchen. Just a moment. I'm about to do the dishes. Very controlled kind of a skater. Nothing loose about it. No, I'll do dishes. ... How's that? 140213 ... e_o_i Now he WANTS to do the dishes. I'll never understand Stan. 140213 ... raze congratulations! you'll do great. just make sure you watch "to sir, with love", "dangerous minds", "dead poets society", "stand and deliver", and that movie with hilary swank in it that recycles most of the plot points from the aforementioned films, to prepare yourself for changing lives and inspiring students and such. i thought your e_o_i impersonation was pretty solid, too. it reminded me of the ben folds five song "best imitation of myself". 140213 ... e_o_i Thanks. The last few days have been kind of surreal, in the colloquial sense. I've actually been busy. There are still more books to sort, so I've been working at the library. I kind of want to be a librarian now. I don't know why. There are things about family and tradition that I find comforting, but it's more the idea of being around books and computers with searchable databases. I could get an MLS or whatever they call it, that is probably possible, but right now I need to generate more income so that "Stanislaus" has money for university. He wants to do Celtic Studies somewhere and his name isn't Stanislaus. It should be, though. I saw Dead Poets Society and I didn't like it much. Is that bad? 140213 ... raze no, i don't think that's bad. i've never seen the movie at all, myself. but i know somewhere robin williams is reading this and softly weeping. 140213 ... e_o_i Sometimes the past is comforting. Although Robin Williams is dead, my brother IS doing Celtic Studies somewhere. I never got called in to do substitute teaching work. The school overhauled their system after I got interviewed and they didn't use the new people. That's a good thing, because I don't think I could deal well with bunches of kid, as a teacher. I've done tutoring with kids, and group classes with adults, but group classes with kids... I think that takes a greater concentration of stamina and courage and focus and kindness. 170922 ... e_o_i Bunches of KIDS, not of kid. Plurals are my nemesis. Nemeses. Damascus Demosthenes parakeet planetarium. 170922 ... raze (i read that quip about robin williams just now, forgetting i ever made it, and felt a little jolt. it still feels strange that he's gone. he was like the crazy uncle with a heart of gold we all grew up with on our TV screens. i'll never forget being a kid, home sick from school, curled up watching "hook", the blue and white rings of the blanket my mother made pulled tight around me, and feeling somehow comforted because a grown-up peter pan was there to save the day.) 170923 what's it to you? who go blather from