slither and friends

slither and friends

slither and friends

Plese feel free to check out my friend's online comic. It's very funny.
MF

Plese feel free to check out my friend's online comic. It's very funny.
MF

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Good evening everyone. I just got back from a cool weekend downtown and I thought I would just take a little time to catch up with everybody. This week I finished my first semester as a T.I. which was really great. I have had so many great times and met some really wonderful people in the last few months. Of course my students were just a great group of people and I miss them already. I think that I was pretty easy on them as far as their grades went, but they really improved their writing skills, which is the purpose of the course, so I feel that they got the grades they earned. Several of my coworkers had a harder time than I did (one hears stories of plagiarism and students with nervous breakdowns), so I am thankful for that. However, it's like getting a lucky drive on your first time golfing; your hooked. Anyway, a nice bunch. I sort of regret having to give them up just when we were starting to really groove. Oh well.

So that's about all I have done lately. I haven't done any christmas shopping yet. I haven't done any creative writing (I did sign up for National Write a Novel Month but I only wrote 268 words instead of the required 50,000) Oh I take that back, I wrote this poem that I really like called A Stray Dog at Ephesus it goes a little something like this:

Stray Dog at Ephesus

Maybe he’s looking for the water or
waiting for some guy in a toga
to come out of the library and walk
him home and give him treats stamped
with Constantine’s image. Or maybe he
thought that this would be a good place
for a bone.

Maybe he went there to stand on a Roman
road and stare at sandy buildings and
deep blue sky. Like I came here to
wander around in your dark eyes
and lose myself in the sandy columns
of your arms.

Well, I guess I'll leave it at that for now. Have a good week.
MF

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fout's new job

Well. What can I say about it? As of two weeks ago, I no longer work at the auto shop. Now I am working at my new job as a graduate level teaching intern at NIU. The first week was an intensive training period, but I have spent this last week with my actual students and I can only think of one thing to say: Dude, sweet.!

I can’t believe that I actually get paid (very little) to do this job. It’s like getting paid to play in the sand box. Granted it’s not my dream job of martini tester, but I don’t think that job actually exists anyway. Every day I come home totally exhausted but for the first time in never it’s like a good kind of exhausted. I love teaching those students even though I currently can’t remember at least half of their names.

the fouts report august 7

Well. Thank god the summer is nearly over. These last few months, I have felt as if I am in some kind of holding pattern. At the end of August I start my new job as a graduate assistant and quit the job I had for the last seven years as an auto repair service writer. This is a big change. It’s not every day that someone leaves a job after seven years. That being said, I will probably not miss my old job. Nobody in their right mind would ever feel nostalgic about being a service writer. It is a thankless job and the fact that I am more or less completely incompetent when it comes to auto repair or knowledge of how cars work made this job more difficult for me than it might have been for other more mechanically minded people.
        Anyway, I know some of you are getting ready to start new jobs yourselves. Good luck to you all and keep in touch with your adventures.
Matt.