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A Good DayTM.
I got all kinds of fussy details done, like rescheduling a specialist's appointment that fell exactly when I'm going to be in San Francisco. Like booking Robinson into a boarding place for the time I'm going to be in San Francisco. Like ordering online some extra Method mop cloths.
I also scored the Keynote Speaker of my DreamsTM for our DE conference! So that was a great achievement.
And I had a really good class teaching Sylvia Plath's "Daddy." What I was trying to do was show them that it's not all "oh, poor Sylvia, the victim" but a carefully calculated campaign by her to make herself seem like "oh, poor Sylvia, the victim." It's not that I'm pro-Ted Hughes. I just feel that he didn't really get a word in.
And Robinson and I went for a nice walk after work and it wasn't even dark. Spring is coming.
I got all kinds of fussy details done, like rescheduling a specialist's appointment that fell exactly when I'm going to be in San Francisco. Like booking Robinson into a boarding place for the time I'm going to be in San Francisco. Like ordering online some extra Method mop cloths.
I also scored the Keynote Speaker of my DreamsTM for our DE conference! So that was a great achievement.
And I had a really good class teaching Sylvia Plath's "Daddy." What I was trying to do was show them that it's not all "oh, poor Sylvia, the victim" but a carefully calculated campaign by her to make herself seem like "oh, poor Sylvia, the victim." It's not that I'm pro-Ted Hughes. I just feel that he didn't really get a word in.
And Robinson and I went for a nice walk after work and it wasn't even dark. Spring is coming.
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Funny how students don't get that poets of all people are adept at creating characters and personas, including those supposed to represent themselves. I've had students seriously upset on reading "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" when they discovered Yeats was a non-combatant and not a pilot. They seriously felt it invalidated the whole poem.