Resonance » apple http://www.fadedrequiem.com/resonance Popular Culture Disruptions Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:02:55 +0000 en hourly 1 I Am Professor Man http://www.fadedrequiem.com/resonance/2008/04/16/i-am-professor-man/ http://www.fadedrequiem.com/resonance/2008/04/16/i-am-professor-man/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:58:04 +0000 Matt http://www.fadedrequiem.com/musings/?p=43 I have some big news, I am now officially a full time instructor at the local community college teaching virtual classes in humanities and myth.  I am very excited because I get to do two things I love, teach and tinker with web stuff.  I can’t believe I am now gainfully employed and not a slacker.  Not that I was a slacker since by the end of summer I will receive a second master’s degree in library science.  It will be exactly a year, not a bad pace for a degree.

I can’t wait to throw myself into the work.  Hopefully this means I can get a Macbook (even though I get one from the job it’s not a Mac and I have to wait for it so I want one now).  As a side note, anyone that has a used Macbook or Macbook Pro for sale let me know!  To keep that going, anyone that wants to buy my comic collection let me know!  I will also be a slave for the right price.  I have some practice, ask my wife.

So there you go, great news for me.  Just in time for my daughter to turn 4 next week, she’s already happy that Daddy will be home most evenings.

]]> http://www.fadedrequiem.com/resonance/2008/04/16/i-am-professor-man/feed/ 0 The Sick and the Poor http://www.fadedrequiem.com/resonance/2008/01/15/the-sick-and-the-poor/ http://www.fadedrequiem.com/resonance/2008/01/15/the-sick-and-the-poor/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:44:23 +0000 Matt http://www.fadedrequiem.com/musings/?p=18 There are moments in ones life when you realize your are an adult and still a child at the same time.  It began with an explanation of Monticello on a nickel to my daughter which included the obligatory home of Thomas Jefferson and progressed into it was based on Italian villa design from the Renaissance, although I see the exact building in my head damn if I can remember the architect.  I realized that I was an adult in passing down vital information yet still a child because I couldn’t help myself from adding bits of information that were probably more confusing to my daughter than helpful.

Move ahead an hour and I am standing in front of a class full of students expounding on film and wondering if chalk was getting on my sweater.  Oh duality of thoughts!  Don’t forget to discuss R.W. Paul and I wonder how many of my students are older than me.  At least that duality is something I have learned to handle.  I just hate it when I find my mind wandering as I’m talking to something totally unrelated to my discussion.

Later that same evening, my daughter has somehow managed to stay awake past her bedtime by almost 3 hours complaining of sore throat, not tired, thirsty, stomach hurts, where’s Gordon, more songs, finger hurts, and why is there an infinite amount of stars in the sky yet my ceiling only has 12.   My wife even suggested that our daughter was hallucinating, which does actually run in my side of the family.  At least I remember the man talking to me through the TV even if my mother said it was turned off.  The parent says I hope she is okay and nothing is wrong.  Your heart breaks because you know she can’t understand the experience to the fullest to be able to convey vital health information.  The child just wonders where my hallucinations went now that I fully know the experience and health information is the priority.

No matter the situation, you have those moments of clarity where you clearly see the split between child and adult.  I want a new Macbook Air and was downright giddy as it was introduced.  The child in me says shiny and cool, it’s mine!  The adult says shiny and cool, it could be mine!  Perhaps those moments do not apply to announcements from Apple.

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