My boyfriend is obsessed with the cleanliness of his floors. He even rents the carpet shampooing machine every year or so. Me? I occasionally notice that dust bunnies are taking over and do what vacuuming I can without having to actually move anything.
To be fair...she did say some of her male colleagues are denied the pleasure.
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But while I love her writing, I'm not terribly fond of her. She was a visiting lecturer & taught one of the required Rhetoric courses. It was AWFUL. She's not much of a people person. Terrible name dropping. And she was the only teacher who failed to cancel lecture on 9/11. Nope, she spent 2 hours talking about Proust & his stupid cookie.
@lola82: Well in fairness, I was in school in DC at the time and went to class because it never occurred to me that class would be canceled on 9/11. This may say more about me than her though.
not only do i hate vacuuming, but i hate carpet. dust mites freak me out.... although there is something to be said for doing the dishes, but hippiedude usually beats me to it.
@desertbloom79: Oh man, me too. Especially when the grass gets all long and gnarly and it's like you're waving a magic wand over it that makes it short and neat.
I go into my happy state of mind when I go grocery shopping late at night. The aisles are empty, I can plan weekly meals and think about food. It's like yoga for me.
@LaComtesse: I used to enjoy that too, but here in Lower Crapovia the groceries are filled with rednecks picking up cheap beer and deli chicken after 2nd shift lets out. You end up getting stuck in line behind them waiting for the U-scan, while you listen to them bitch to their tube-topped girlfriends about what a dick the foreman is because he, like, expects them to STACK BOXES in the warehouse and how so and so said you just can't trust this Obama guy because, well, you know....
I'll go back to shopping earlier and dealing with the Blue (haired) Crush, thank you.
@katie.scarlett.o'hara: Like, was she being all Austin Powers-ish when she said it? Maybe she was just being funny? You know, "Joyce Carol Oates is a Man, baby."
@katie.scarlett.o'hara: I saw her in person a few months ago when she did a reading at the university where I work. She is definitely not a man. She does, however, do a great impression of Emily Dickinson as a robot.
@viklane: Embrace it, as I do. Some people will look at you askance, but really, her writing is Just. Not. That. Good. (With the glaring exception of the wonderful "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?") Instead of Oates' inflated canon, my shelves have Joan Didion, Ann Beattie, Mary Gaitskill, Mary McCarthy, Julia Glass, Susan Choi, on and on and on. Also, this NYT comment does not seem particularly clever, and is the sort of "tee-hee men and women are different!1!!1!!" that I so dislike.
I can't figure out how I feel about this statement. Is the implication that there's some inherent house-work love in women? Is it a slight on men, or just on male writers of a certain age? Someone help me out.
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Just sayin'.
But while I love her writing, I'm not terribly fond of her. She was a visiting lecturer & taught one of the required Rhetoric courses. It was AWFUL. She's not much of a people person. Terrible name dropping. And she was the only teacher who failed to cancel lecture on 9/11. Nope, she spent 2 hours talking about Proust & his stupid cookie.
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I'll go back to shopping earlier and dealing with the Blue (haired) Crush, thank you.
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That's what I got from the statement...
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