&#034Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.&#034 –George Will

You know, if I had had any idea what I was getting myself into when I downloaded that article about using comic books to teach French pronunciation, I probably would have deleted the file immediately. Well, no, I guess I can&#039t
really go that far, but damn did I not have any idea what I was getting myself into when I agreed to do my term paper on Truett Book&#039s article &#034French Pronunciation by Comic Book&#034 in the French Review. Macheak is all gung-ho about getting an abstract for this in soon so we can take it to two (if not more!) conferences next year. He&#039s got a grocery list of things for me to do to get this paper ready for both abstraction and presentation forms. It&#039s just craziness. But at least he&#039s pulling the by-line on this one so I&#039m not going it alone at all. He has presented at conferences before, but I think I&#039ll avoid following his model (&#039cause in his words, he fell on his face at them) and try figuring out my own way to present this. Crazy.

At any rate, I&#039m gonna get the laundry together, talk the husband into fixing dinner and then work on grading the other stack of papers Macheak handed me this afternoon. Crazy.

Posted: May 10, 2004 at about ten after six in the evening.