Party Hard

So I've been really busy these past couple weeks, but then again, who isn't? In addition to taking two classes (four if you count the two classes that meet occasionally during the quarter), I'm teaching one section of English 151: Writing and Rhetoric, which meets M-F from 12-1. Every schedule has its (dis)advantages, but what I like most about teaching for an hour every day is that the classes go quickly. I'm more concerned about running out of time than material. It's going well, I think. Oh, and I have a faculty page. That picture was taken during orientation week, and as of last week, there's one major change:

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After four years, I trimmed my beard. I'd been thinking about doing it, because since I moved to Ohio, I've felt like changing some things about myself. Eating presents fewer annoyances now, as does sleeping. Call it Beard 2.0. Call it leaner, meaner. I've still got my hair, though, and I don't plan on trimming it anytime soon. 

Recently, Poets & Writers awarded Ohio University the bronze medal for being the third top creative writing doctoral program, which is cool, and, of course, the Princeton Review awarded OU the gold medal for partying. Some professors took issue with the rankings of the former, but that's no surprise. Rankings are subjective, and that's what makes them so fun to write, read, and discuss. The getting drunk party award, however, just makes me feel old, that I'm a decade removed from being a freshman--not that I mind this. 

I'm reading fiction and nonfiction for New Ohio Review, a.k.a. /nor, so come September 15, if you submit prose, there's a chance I'll read it. 

Good stuff out now or coming very soon:

A cappella Zoo #7

Canteen #7

Dark Sky #12

Electric Literature #6

Even though the party school ranking has little meaning for me, it has still prompted me to watch this video several times since first reading about it: