The class after the reading and Prof. Row is back (yeah!) but not in the best health (boo). We had a guest speaker a recent TCNJ alum who was working in the field of "arts management". I am grateful to Prof.Row for setting this situation up because honestly that is what graduating seniors want to know. How do you actually get a job? And what kind of Jobs are there? The speaker was a sweet guy and very nice to come back and talk to us. I did not know that there were master programs like the one he described it was educational and interesting.
I think I'm just going to get married and have a child when I graduate. I love school and using my mind and fighting to be the quickest and the sharpest. I love ideas and arguing and analyzing and understanding the world in a deeper way through reading/writing. But that deepness can also feel superficial, like an idea is never going to be tangible. You can never snuggle it. You can never dress it up in little baby clothes and smell its little head. Babies you can do this with.
I need a break from the abstract and four to five years of being a wife and a mother and then Ill go get my five year masters in "the complex administrative maneging of the theoretical and rhetorical arts", except by then it wont be called that, and everyone will be doing something else, and Ill be 28, an old fart. Just kidding.
Who knows what the future will bring us. But it was really great to hear from a man just recently in my place, and the shape his path has taken so far.
Monday, October 6, 2008
9-30-08 Week Five Tuesday
So today was the day of the Tracy K. Smith reading. I had in my day planner: "Tracy reading look decent" but i woke up from a delicious nap at threeish and had to run to get to TCNJ in time. So I ended up no make up, no shower, in my sweats, like always. I did put a hair bow in, I buy the little girl ones ,which I think look ADORABLE and my boyfriend thinks look creepy, like I want to be a five year old again. I'm addicted to children's clothes, I actually just bought a onesie for fat children (size 16 who knew?) that fits amazingly and is fleece with little monkeys and hearts on it..and its a REAL onesie like with the zipper and the booties with little pads on the feet so I don't slip. I am so adorable. I'm too much.
But on to Tracy, who I must say looked Very fashionable herself, she was rocking awesome Frye motorcycle boots which I'm just a teeny bit to tall to pull off. But Tracy def. did.
So when I got down to the library basement there was the whole PR group scuttling around with food and cakes and, thinking about having to cook, I was immediately relieved to be in the Author group. Inside, students and faculty started to fill up the room and soon Tracy walked in to a round of applause. Duncan gave a awesome but very, um, effusive introduction that Tracy totally took the right way, thank god, and then the reading began. It was short and sweet and wonderful. Afterwards everyone asked questions and I got really nervous that the questions were not smart/sharp/witty enough but, once again, she understood her audience and appreciated our effort.
Afterwards in the "reception" there was a terribly awkward moment where Dr. Carney literally dropped Smith off with me saying something like, "OH here is one of the students now" and then puttering away. Alone and unprepared I shook her hand thanked her at least twenty different ways and then nodded my head and made those awkward facial expressions we all do when you run out of things to say. Then I told her my sister lived in Brooklyn, like that is at all interesting, who doesn't have a sister living in Brooklyn? No, but seriously it was good. And I think she appreciated all the work we did for her reading even if it did come off a little "home-made" I mean were undergrads not professionals she knows this.
Everything in life is a growing experience so we can only do better for Beckman who I am really going to get dressed nicely for-seriously no sweat pants- and deodorant-and eyeliner- I promise ;)
But on to Tracy, who I must say looked Very fashionable herself, she was rocking awesome Frye motorcycle boots which I'm just a teeny bit to tall to pull off. But Tracy def. did.
So when I got down to the library basement there was the whole PR group scuttling around with food and cakes and, thinking about having to cook, I was immediately relieved to be in the Author group. Inside, students and faculty started to fill up the room and soon Tracy walked in to a round of applause. Duncan gave a awesome but very, um, effusive introduction that Tracy totally took the right way, thank god, and then the reading began. It was short and sweet and wonderful. Afterwards everyone asked questions and I got really nervous that the questions were not smart/sharp/witty enough but, once again, she understood her audience and appreciated our effort.
Afterwards in the "reception" there was a terribly awkward moment where Dr. Carney literally dropped Smith off with me saying something like, "OH here is one of the students now" and then puttering away. Alone and unprepared I shook her hand thanked her at least twenty different ways and then nodded my head and made those awkward facial expressions we all do when you run out of things to say. Then I told her my sister lived in Brooklyn, like that is at all interesting, who doesn't have a sister living in Brooklyn? No, but seriously it was good. And I think she appreciated all the work we did for her reading even if it did come off a little "home-made" I mean were undergrads not professionals she knows this.
Everything in life is a growing experience so we can only do better for Beckman who I am really going to get dressed nicely for-seriously no sweat pants- and deodorant-and eyeliner- I promise ;)
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