personal experience experiences January 29, 2007

as most of you probably know, i teach a couple of sections of freshman speech. this past week, all of my dear students completed the first speech for the semester: the 3 – 5 minute personal experience speech. these speeches are great, because their personalities fly out. AND due to the nervous energy– all sorts of funny things fly out of their mouths as well. these are just a sampling of some humorous quotations from my quaint little classes . . . enjoy!

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personal experience: getting lost in italy
“all was well in the world because I didn’t die.”
“wicked fun!”
“we drove together separately.”

personal experience: dog getting ran over
“feed it. let it pee. all that mom stuff . . .”
“i wasn’t about to sign my baby’s life away to doggie heaven!”

personal experience: lawn mower blows up
“i know what i am doing . . . usually.”
“this <<referring to his lawn mower catching on fire>> is not good.”
“sorry about the black spot in your yard.”
“pardon me as i spray my flaming lawnmower.”

personal experience: traveling to NY (note: this student is from germany)
“my hands get so wet when i travel!”
“i wasn’t as extroverted as i am now” (he’s probably the most extroverted person i have ever seen.)
“germans don’t normally talk to each other. it’s just a common thing.”

personal experience: trying to unstick a gas cap
“let’s just say that we have ‘red neck tendencies.’”
“my brother’s truck was brand new . . . back in the Ford administration.”

personal experience: jumping off a 25 foot rock in Hawaii
“the guys all start nudging me, saying, ‘hey, go jump off that rock. the girls we notice you.’”
“the girls did notice that . . .” (referring to when he finally got up the nerve to jump off, ended up getting all turned around in the air, and then landed on the water with a huge SMACK on his back)

personal experience: cutting his finger in shop class
“that’s not good.” (referring to noticing his finger is cut)
“that’s not good.” (referring to the blood trail from shop class to the bathroom)
“that’s not good.” (referring to feeling woozy before passing out on the bathroom floor)

for all my guyfriends . . . hee hee January 28, 2007

back in the day . . . January 28, 2007

what your given name signifies . . . January 27, 2007

this is what your given name signifies:

merely the fact that it is given.

your name is what others told you your name is–

you cannot reason your way to it.

likewise the cosmos. it can’t be argued–

though we do, of course, draping matter with mind.

biting the world, we are the biter bit,

apprehended by that we apprehend. or not.

there’s more to this than meets the eye, we say.

but that’s true of you as well.

your given name shows this.

craig payne

1.23.07: quotation of the day January 23, 2007

“birthdays are good for you. statistics show that those who have the most live the longest.” — larry lorenzoni

(happy birthday, scott! )

random happening: too much privacy January 21, 2007

as i am typing, i can hear my sister’s muffled voice weakly saying, “help . . . help . . . “

we aren’t quite sure how this happened, but the door knob to the bathroom, upon being locked, decided to stay just that . . . locked.

my mother and i are presently waiting for my father to get home in order to remove my jr high sibling from the restroom.

hey, i did what i could! i wiggled the handle! i tried to shove a screwdriver into the knob to loosen it! granted, i was laughing hysterically at the time . . . but i assure you, that didn’t have anything to do with the fact that i couldn’t get it to open!

so, seeing as there was nothing else i can do, i decided i would take this wonderful opportunity to share with all of my reading audience (all four of you) about the most randomest happening that has happened to my family in a while.

oh– my dad’s home. i want to go see how he gets her out . . . if there’s a chain saw involved, I’M SO IN!

(to be continued . . . )

cutie pie January 21, 2007

most recent pic of ella caroline. 

orison swett marden quotations January 20, 2007

“the creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.”

“don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities.  seize common occasions and make them great.  weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”

“when we are sure we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead.  no need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress.  we cannot take more than one step at a time.”

Protected: closing the curtain January 13, 2007

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1.13.07: quotation of the day January 13, 2007

be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

cecil beaton