this imploding heart

lay your burdens down

The instructor refers to himself in the third person about a third of the time.

"...and I can tell you anything that I want, but it doesn't make it true. Don't go repeating Mohammed and getting in fights in bars!"

He seems sweet and interesting, but the class is balls-out politically motivated, if you didn't see that coming from the texts.

The -Getting to Know You- assignment is to choose an 'encapsulating object' and write about why it sums up who you are.

I'm having a hard time choosing something, but the first 2 things to pop into my head are objects I employ when I'm severely emotional. The first being my skates, the second being that gigantic pink square dancing skirt.

I'm hesitant to use either of these, because I'm not sure I can stand in front of a classroom full of people and declare "Sometimes, for little or no reason, I get so sad that I throw up. I can avoid throwing up by lacing myself into these secondhand low top rollerskates and pushing around the sidewalk until I'm too exhausted to stand up. Other times, for little or no reason, I get so happy I feel like I'm going to explode. I avoid exploding by skating around madly until I fall."

Posted by Sonya at September 29, 2004 07:32 AM