Fifteen "T" Things

From Oct 27th notes:
Fifteen things that start with the letter "T"
1. Tuesdays
2. Tarot Cards
3. Turtle Eggs
4. Tazers (police and keychains)
5. Top hats
6. Turn tables
7. Tire gauges
8. Toast (buttered or french)
9. Tall girls with short boyfriends
10. Telling secrets
11. Telling lies
12. Tractor trailer accidents on the highway
13. Time's hastening and slowing down
14. Tacky shoes (crocs)
15. Toga parties

Gesture vs Narration

from Oct 22nd notes:
In a freshman year English class (which will not be named) I was constantly steered away from gesture writing and it was partially due to the fact that I realized that the majority of my audience was completely ignorant and could not understand anything unless it was completely laid out for them. I was thrilled that it was encouraged, in class today, to gesture towards an implied meaning instead of narrating it. This is also part of why I tend to stay away from dialogue. I was under the impression that if I did not explain how I felt about the dialogue, it would be impossible for the reader to understand why it was there. I grew into an awful habit of summarizing dialogue, which ruined many essays aesthetically. I'm going to begin to give the reader more credit, and assume that at some point in their lives, they've tried to make sense of something and succeeded.

Scott Russell Sanders

from Oct 6th lecture:
The first thing I thought of when listening to his lecture was Ed Begley JR, environmentalist extraordinaire. I never watched his show, but there was an episode of Amazing Cakes where his wife forced them to put thousands of windmill turbines on a cake for his birthday. I assumed he was nuts. I felt like Sanders was talking to us as though he knew that we were constant wastes of energy and space. Granted, he was at Sweet Briar, so it was a reasonable assumption, but I know that I personally don't take electricity for granted, and I am aware of how I'm killing the earth slowly with my two cans of hairspray for Halloween, trying to perfect by beehive. Honestly, what I remember most from the lecture was my novelty Cheshire Cat mug going very well with Meaghan's Beatles mug, and Griffith's Three Stooges. And also that I should plant more flowers. The most fascinating thing I found was that Sanders was really multi-talented. Since I am scientifically and mathematically impaired, I thought it was wonderful that Sanders was able to write so beautifully.