At first, the writing of this piece was painful and frustrating. I had liked my mini-narrative quite a bit, but trying to force it into the shape of a hyper-text story was difficult. I started to lose my affection for my narrative as I put it into hyper-text; it didn’t feel quite the same. [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Reflection on February
Posted in Reflection, tagged hyper-text, Reflection, unit one on February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A History of Glass
Posted in Five Minute Exercise, tagged glass, history on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I wonder what the largest glass object is. Can you still see through it? Does it have a use or is it sitting off a highway somewhere in Kansas, just an excuse to get off and use the bathroom or create a hollow Kodak Moment? I doubt that it is majestic, or that it evokes [...]
Trash
Posted in Independent Work, tagged fire, jacket, trash on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The other night I was in the trash room talking on the phone. I like the trash room; for all the wasted disorder and discarded entropy that goes in there, I find it peaceful. It is perfectly organized, color-coded sentries standing and waiting dutifully, ready to fulfill their structural vows and offer their vacant [...]
Push
Posted in Independent Work, tagged ice, service man on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m walking down to the gym, slipping and sliding on melting ice mixed with a smattering of sand. The day is warm and grey and colorless. What remains of a previously pristine white pillow blanketing the campus is now sunken and disfigured like a small pox victim. My salt-stained boots crunch and slide on [...]
To the class…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Letter, to the class on February 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I can still remember learning to read. Back then, my parents weren’t divorced and my brother and I still lived at home. I don’t long for a complete family and I don’t feel like I’ve been cheated out of my life at home since my parents split up, but nonetheless, those memories are refined [...]
Several Persons
Posted in Five Minute Exercise on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s raining, it’s cold, it’s dark. But that’s the way it is, year after year. This year, though, we are going to ignore the tall skeleton of metal and ancient lumber standing not a hundred yards away — the fire tower. We gather together wood, all of it wet. Fuel reserved for cooking cascades down [...]
Beyond
Posted in Five Minute Exercise on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I had said it to myself several times, but until I heard it from another’s mouth, I didn’t brood on it: “the world has always been and always will be there. Whether we understand its intricacies or not will not change whether it works, and the more we understand only highlights the multitudes of information [...]
Alone
Posted in Five Minute Exercise on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The road unwinds ahead of me like a black, unending snake into infinity. I’m driving way, way, way too fast. It’s one in the morning on the careening two-lane highways of New Hampshire, and I’m driving way, way, way too fast. The sun roof is open and all four windows are down. The sound system [...]
Person
Posted in Five Minute Exercise on February 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
At this very moment, he is sleeping not ten feet away from me. His sighs are slightly impatient at the tap-tap :::pause::: of my fingers on the keyboard. He is blond, tall, and in the best shape of his life. Even while sleeping, you can see he’s an athlete. His six pairs of skis lean [...]
Place
Posted in Five Minute Exercise, tagged exercise, five minutes, place on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The cabin is not large. It is entirely open, with half-walls partitioning it into three areas: two living spaces and one common room. The common room is like that of any rustic cabin. There is a cast-iron wood stove embered in the corner. A smile pile of freshly-split wood lies next to it, with neatly [...]
