Half of the Brain :
the place all those random thoughts that flit through my head each day go to die

Must Write: (and must not think too hard about doing it)
I've got to re-write my teaching philosophy. Haven't revamped it since that first-semester pedagogy class eons ago. And now that I actually know what I'm doing you'd think it'd be an easy exercise. However, I'm experiencing one of those uber-frustrating catch 22's, because now that I know what I'm doing I'm more cognizant of how down-right dorky everything I've come up with so far sounds. In my defense, though, I've just about decided that teaching philosophies are by nature incredibly dorky documents. I've perused a few on-line and they're all pretty similar. So I guess there's something to be said for blending in with the crowd.

I don't need one for any important reason (not like a *real* job or anything) but it's a little disconcerting to me that I find myself trying to write about something that I really enjoy, that I'm pretty good at, and that's one of the more meanigful things I do with my time and it all comes out sounding like crap. That never-ending opus I don't write about here (wink, wink)) sounds better and that fool thing is the bain of my existence.

Oh well, I've agreed to call it quits at the end of the night-- sometimes you just have to finish writing or go insane. (and there's way too many other things to go insane about at the moment).