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Expanding my Vocabulary

New Word alert(!) courtesy of the husband.

Planwiches - (noun) The ideas I have for future sandwiches that I plan on making Justin for lunch. Sandwiches of the fuuuuture!

Also, having a hard time getting going this morning. All of my mp3s are on my external drive at home and I have like one album here at work (Feist's The Reminder, if you're wondering). I need some serious 80's cheese rock to ease into the work week. Looking desperately for some Journey (shut up, I'm from Southern Ohio) on 80's internet radio stations, I've stumbled into "Time After Time." three times now. While I love Cyndi Lauper and all, I'm pretty sure that wasn't the only song of the 80s.

Vocabularium

Procrastisnacking (verb) - When you decide you are hungry or have a need to cook something when you ought to be finishing your thesis or packing or generally doing anything else but cooking.

Sad News

This morning when I came into work, my friend Matt told me that David Citino passed away yesterday. David was an English professor and the Poet Laureate of the University. I first met him about three years ago when I taped him reading a poem that he wrote for one of our biology classes. I told him that although I was working for the sciences, I had a mostly creative writing background. He invited me to take his summer poetry class that he referred to as his "poetry cult."

The cult turned out to be three weeks of intense three hour workshop classes everyday. The cult also turned out to be one of the best classes I've taken at OSU* and the reason for that was entirely related to the fact that David was an awesome teacher — warm, encouraging, but also very truthful.

I feel very fortunate to have known him.

*the other "best class I've taken" is Design Research 786 — in case you were wondering.