• Explore Vox
  • Culture
  • Entertainment
  • Life
  • Music
  • News & Politics
  • Technology
  • Join Vox
  • Take a Tour
  • Already a Member? Sign in
bodhibound

path and practice

just showing up and doing my best

  • bodhibound’s Blog
  • Profile
  • Neighbors
  • Photos
  • More 
    • Audio
    • Videos
    • Books
    • Links
    • Collections

I List I Can / I List I Can / I List I Can

  • 26 minutes ago
  • Post a comment

Today/night:

  1. print feedback for stack 1 of unit 2 portfolios, distribute correctly
  2. print extra credit assignments from email
  3. read/grade extra credit
  4. teach 3 classes
  5. stay in a good mood the whole time (!!!!)
  6. make & print sign-up sheets for presentations
  7. grade discussion board posts
  8. buy printer paper
  9. buy assorted stuff at grocery store
  10. eat something
  11. print discussion board posts
  12. grade proposals for researched change arguments
  13. grade late submission ethics arguments
  14. read "Everyday Use" for tomorrow
  15. prep African American lit
  16. start the next stack of unit 2 portfolios
Tomorrow:
  1. finish the list above
  2. print Lucille Clifton's poem for African American lit
  3. read/grade the next stack of unit 2 portfolios, or at least put a huge dent in the pile
  4. teach 2 classes
  5. meet Student Girl at office hours
  6. don't forget to do presentation sign-ups in Research Writing
  7. update Final Portfolio prep assignment & get it posted to ereserves
  8. print up a bunch of those
Wednesday:
  1. finish the list above
  2. prep African American lit
  3. write next short essay assignment for African American lit
  4. teach 3 classes
  5. don't forget to do presentation sign-ups in Research Writing, again
  6. some other stuff I've forgotten
  7. go see Keb Mo with SLP :) :) :)



Post a comment Tags: lists, bodhihome, this teacher's process

Listing

  • Yesterday
  • 1 comment

Ok, today, I have:

  1. finished grading a stack of portfolios
  2. prepped for 3 sections
  3. gone to the employee meeting for My Bar
  4. answered student emails
Which doesn't begin to get me out of the hole, really. Whatever---I'm marching on!

Tonight, before I go to sleep, I must:
  1. finish the next stack (major arguments turned in late, so it's not a full stack; phew)
Tomorrow, I must:
  1. print feedback for the first stack to turn back
  2. print the extra credit that got emailed in over the weekend
  3. finish another stack
  4. teach three sections
  5. read a short story and a poem, so I can
  6. prep African American Lit for the week
Which means, Tuesday, I must:
  1. grade discussion board posts for African American lit
  2. finish another stack
  3. teach two sections
Which means, Wednesday, I must:
  1. print feedback for the stack to turn back
  2. finish the stack I most certainly won't have actually finished by then
  3. teach three sections
  4. write the next short essay assignment for African American Lit
  5. grade the extra credit that was emailed in over the weekend
  6. and a few more things I've forgotten
Which means, Thursday, I must:
  1. print feedback for the stack to turn back
  2. teach two sections
  3. take a frickin' break
I can do that. I can totally make it to Thursday, if I get a break then. And I can also, maybe not quite get all of it done and not be totally screwed. It's gonna be fine. Right? 

Think good thoughts...

1 comment Tags: sigh, lists, this teacher's process

Grrrnnff

  • 2 days ago
  • 3 comments
Good Enough Day, Some Less Awesome Bits

  1. My tooth hurts. Again.
  2. Gotta get some dental insurance, or maybe just some magically found money in an old purse.
  3. Just over half a stack of papers done; two and a half stacks to go.
  4. Shouldn't have spent so much time on the phone, but I got to catch up with friends, which I should always spend more time doing.
  5. Mostly clean house, which is nice. Did tons of dishes and microwave cleaning and whatnot today.
  6. New pajama pants, very softy nice.
  7. Cat peace continues to hold.
  8. Almost all of tomorrow off to play more catch-up.
  9. And SLP will be home. :)
3 comments Tags: bodhihome, this teacher's process

I Heart Good Advice

  • Nov 1, 2009
  • Post a comment

Ahhhhh....

At the very, very good advice of my dear, dear friends Heartswater and PTM, I have canceled my classes at My Institution for tomorrow. I will teach at The Community College, but then I shall go home and grade, grade, grade allllllllllllll day and return, caught up-ish and refreshed-ish, on Tuesday. Or maybe on Wednesday. ;)

Post a comment Tags: this teacher's process

Nothing. No thing. Excellent.

  • Oct 23, 2009
  • 3 comments

Hoo-boy, the squirrels are nuts today. They've moved into the one wall in my office, apparently. It's raining and windy and crappy out today, so they're having an indoor fun day, running up and down and up and down. The cats usually spend most Indoor Squirrel Fun Days going insane running back and forth at the bottom of the wall, but today they've apparently had enough. They are sleeping, squirrels be damned.


I am taking my cue from the cats. I am doing nothing but watching internet TV and wearing warm layers and drinking coffee. I have to be at work at My Bar in a couple hours, but I shall do no other work today, damnit. I'm teaching 5 classes this term---4 writing, 1 lit---and my brain is burnt the hell out. So I do nothing, and love it.

:)

3 comments Tags: bodhihome, cat peace, indoor squirrel fun day

Home Again

  • Jul 6, 2009
  • 2 comments

Going up north is like going to the mental health chiropractor. Blessed indeed.

Up North Fourth 09 006
Up North Fourth 09 006

Up North Fourth 09 019
Up North Fourth 09 019

Up North Fourth 09 032
Up North Fourth 09 032

Up North Fourth 09 042
Up North Fourth 09 042


2 comments Tags: up north, bodhihome

Intertext Moment

  • Jul 1, 2009
  • 1 comment

Having not been up here in Voxland for a while, I was just reading back through a few of my old posts. I feel very fond of them, which is nice. I read this one just now, and remembered that Edward Abbey had actually written it before, in The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel, although he managed to do it in just one line:

Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.

:).

And now it occurs to me that it might be time to read that one again. That and Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison. Excellent.

1 comment Tags: dorothy allison, edward abbey, this writer's process, this reader's process

It's a Nice Night

  • Jul 1, 2009
  • 1 comment

I need to get back to thinking in words, again, to writing. I've been floating in the blue for a while now, spacing out, staring at the sea. It's been worrying me lately, but today I'm noticing it's maybe fine, good even. L came into the bar for dinner the other night, and said as much. I told her I'd been wasting a lot of time lately, and made some sort of apologetic noises about it. She just looked at me for a minute, that look where she cocks back on her hip, tilts one eye at you, and takes your entire measure in a glance. Then she said, "It's ok to waste time. You should do that."

Wise woman, that L. Being one of the most driven, effective people I know, I feel she's got pretty decent credibility about wasting time as a right choice. She's my boss at My Institution, and she's one of the best mentors I've ever had---wicked smart, morally sound, in every way, and simply the most constructively challenging teacher I've ever had. And I've had some superb teachers.

At any rate, she's right. I've been thinking, furiously, at full speed, for a good chunk of years, now. I think now of Dorothy Allison's line: "A [person] needs some dream time." I've been on dream-time this past month, and now that I think of it, thank God! This past year, teaching full-time for the first time, recovering from grad skool, keeping my life happening and in good enough health---man, I was starting to get really properly tired. ;)

It's like I've been innertubing down narratives, on that laziest narrative river of them all---TV shows. Specifically, Numb3rs. I turn it on, with its easy-peasy-intellectual-inquiry quality, and its family-that-likes-each-other quality and its smooth-problem-resolution quality, and just float on out on my imagination, gently bouncing and toodling along, from point to point.

This dream-time will have to recede eventually, at least by August, and I think it'll be good for it to ebb sooner. So like I said, I need to get back to thinking in words, to writing. I find myself interested in making some poems again, just little ones, little snapshots. I like snapshot-poems. I made a ton of them a few years back. It was a delightful time of paying close attention and finding a lot of beauty and interesting things.

Hmmmm....


1 comment Tags: good advice, this writer's process, writing practice

haiku dayline

  • Jul 1, 2009
  • Post a comment

am:

the bed is rumpled
around us; i do not want
to get up and go.


noonish:

class went well; then fell
apart, but the room was bright--
they took care of things fine.

evening:

wet greendark out there;
cats and i are dry inside
he'll be back home soon.

Post a comment Tags: bodhihome, writing practice, po'tree

Just 5 Words

  • May 3, 2009
  • Post a comment

Feeling better, which is nice.

Post a comment Tags: prajna, bodhicitta, outbreath, bodhihome

Read more from bodhibound »

bodhibound

About Me

bodhibound
United States
View my profile
just showing up and doing my best

Links, Lately

  • Pandora Radio
  • Homemade
  • FireflyWiki
  • Pema Chodron
  • Heartswater

Photos

  • Up North Fourth 09 042
  • Up North Fourth 09 032
  • Up North Fourth 09 019
  • Up North Fourth 09 006
  • Gradingmixtape
  • Tubescience
  • we'll keep a tube on fer ya
  • Geniusenoughmixtape
  • Callmemixtape

View more of my photos

Neighborhood

  • electric firefly
    electric firefly Updated: Yesterday
  • Kirk
    Kirk Updated: Yesterday
  • kitty
    kitty Updated: Yesterday
  • prairieplains
    prairieplains Updated: Yesterday
  • navelgazer
    navelgazer Updated: Yesterday

Explore friends, family, friends & family, or entire neighborhood.

View my neighbors

Tags

  • bodhicitta
  • bodhihome
  • bodyliving
  • family
  • glee
  • gratitude
  • heart
  • life + text
  • mix-tapes
  • music
  • outbreath
  • practice
  • prajna
  • qotd
  • shenpa
  • studenting
  • superpowers
  • teaching/studenting
  • tv
  • vox hunt

View my tags

Books

  • Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line
  • Teaching One Moment At A Time: Disruption And Repair In The Classroom
  • The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
  • Invisible Man
  • Beloved
  • There's Treasure Everywhere--A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
  • Calvin and Hobbes:  Sunday Pages 1985-1995
  • George's Secret Key to the Universe

View more of my books

Archives

  • November 2009 (4)
  • October 2009 (1)
  • July 2009 (4)
  • May 2009 (3)
  • April 2009 (8)
  • 2009 (55)
  • 2008 (123)
  • 2007 (123)

Subscribe

  • Subscribe to a feed of these posts
  • Powered by Vox
  • Theme designed by Jamison Wieser
  • Use this theme
  • Home
  • Explore
  • Tour Vox
  • Start a Vox Blog
Already a member? Sign in

Back to top

View Vox in your language: English | Español | Français | 日本語

Brought to you by Six Apart, creators of Movable Type, Vox and TypePad.
Six Apart Services: Blogs | Free Blogs | Content Management | Advertising

Vox © 2003-2008 Six Apart, Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
Help | Learn More | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | Copyright | Advertise | Get a Free Vox Blog

Loading…

Adding this item will make it viewable to everyone who has access to the group.

Adding this post, and any items in it, will make it viewable to everyone who has access to the group.

Create a link to a person
Search all of Vox
Your Neighborhood
People on Vox

(Select up to five users maximum)

Vox Login

You've been logged out, please sign in to Vox with your email and password to complete this action.

Email:
Password:
 
Embed a Widget
Widget Title: This is optional
Widget Code: Insert outside code here to share media, slideshows, etc. Get more info
OK Cancel

We allow most HTML/CSS, <object> and <embed> code

Processing...
Processing
Message
Confirm
Error
Remove this member