October 18, 2008

No Fear

So. It has been a tumultuous couple weeks. I don't know why I've been so down about it, but hopefully I can recuperate this weekend and be ready to live the last two weeks of Halloween to the fullest.

Bored to Death

The last week or so has been strange. I've continued to have problems with my insurance/loan situation. Once again I called my loan company only to find out that they still haven't received any sort of payment from the insurance company.

I've decided also that I won't be attending the CAMWS (Classical Association of the Midwest and South) conference next month.

CAMWS invited me to read my paper "Ripped Up By The Roots: Sophocles' Antigone and The Fall of the House of Oedipus" at their 2008 convention, but because of this car situation and every other blow Colorado has dealt me I don't feel confident enough about my school work or my finances to take off a couple days and attend the convention in Asheville. Also, the fact that G-mail marked a month's worth of CAMWS communication as Spam didn't help either.

I've also decided that if I can get back into blogging I'm at least going to give myself one day off per week, beginning in November. As it stands I owe you all way too many posts about Halloween to cut myself any slack before the end of the month.

I got back to RCIA (basically adult confirmation classes for the Catholic Church) this week after missing two weeks in row. I'm still not overly pleased at how painfully elementary the class is and how much time we spend sharing our "feelings," but I guess I just have to bite the bullet, unless I can find a more ambitious class in town.

Today is devoted to catching up on grading and reading Dracula. I've finished the second and third books in the Eragon series only to find that there's a fourth, and I'm none too pleased about it. While the books are good, and if my 8th graders are all reading them I don't think it's a waste of time if I do to, I can't help but cringe when I see the Christopher Paolini is in league with Phillip Pullman (author of The Golden Compass) whose entire purpose in writing children's books is to undermine the theory of fantasy and fairy stories developed by C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkein.

Well, this has been scattered, but at least I'm blogging.

Let me know how you've been and remind me if I owe you a phone call.

Your Halloween video for the day:


P.S. If you've never seen the musical episode of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer you can't consider yourself cultured. The same holds true for the musical episode of Scrubs.

Pray to St. Dracula for a musical episode of Heroes.

10 comments:

Michael Hill said...

You think that's hard? I'm trying the juggle work and school with the fact that I was seduced into the pleasures of Everquest again after a good 6 years abstinence. Since 5pm Monday I've made level 16 with my DE Necro, worked 28 hours (excluding breaks) and researched and wrote a 500 word essay on Circadian Rhythms.

Also, EQ is a lot different, but that's a 500 words essay in and of itself.

Patrick Kilchermann said...

Mike- If you become a racecar driver, I'm going to invest heavily into popularizing your nick name as "Michael Thrill".

Zach, hang in there buddy. Green pastures of guild poker with pretzel rods dangling from our mouths, and half empty glasses of Pepsi (at least for me, lol) in near.

Collect yourself, and KNOW that you're the best teacher these kids have had YET. They are lucky to have you.

Keep on kicking butt Zach.

Patrick Kilchermann said...

Hey Mike- shoot me an email some time! pat@deltamediallc.com

Patrick Kilchermann said...

At 10 I shaved my head and tried to be a monk
I thought the older women would like me if I did
You see, ma, I'm a good little boy
It's all your fault, momma, it's all your fault
Goddamn, this business is really lame
I gotta live on an island to find the juice
So you send me your love from all around the world
As if I could live on words and dreams and a million screams
Oh how I need a hand in mine, to feel


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ise4axZMDxo

Patrick Kilchermann said...

Here lies 'The Good Word'.

Inspiration for some; Reading material for others; Another place to take a verbal dump for Mike Hill.

Missed by all.

Patrick Kilchermann said...

Zach! It's hallow-freaking-ween!

I an barely type this from the hand shaking caused by Good Word withdrawals. You gotta give me a little bit. Crush your feelings up and pour them on my cell phone, I'll snort it off that if I have to!

natalie said...

you owe me a phone call.

natalie said...

i can hear you saying that in your head in the most whiney natalie voice possible. i didn't say it with a whiney voice. but very matter-of-factly. but i know you're just rolling your eyes saying, "yeah. right. i'm supposed to believe THAT?" :^) i miss you zachary.

Leroy said...

still waiting on the next blog post.
and seriously... from august of next year till around dec I would love to live out there with you... let me know your thoughts

Kevin said...

Who scared Zach away dagnabit!