Black Tie Lounge

I think this is soooo hilarious. I must have made someone really mad because they took the precious time out of their day to give me a bad rating on Rate My Professor . By the time you read this things may have changed or not. I don't mean to pay too much attention to the negativity but I must point that I never in my life taught a CST 121 course. I don't know what subject that is and I doubt our campus even offers it. Hmm maybe that is where the student got confused. This stuff sounds like something straight out of clients from hell .

It's a celebration. It's a celebration. Celebrating the year I moved out my moma basement. It's been a long time coming for me fam and September 15 marks the day that I move into my new place in SE DC. Too bad I won't be settled in for about another week after that date. I work during the evenings and the weekend that follows it is pretty busy. Either way I will be sure to raise a glass for myself because this city man has finally got it together to live in the city. The first couple of months will be a stretch but I can dig it. To share a little bit about my journey I consider myself to have come a long way. From getting my Masters in 09 to moving everything to NYC to landing flat on my butt after that summer because there was no job in the city. Next I moved in with my parents and took on a part-time job where the leadership was horrible. I wrecked my car and then the car I was using got stolen, with no where close to enough money to afford a car payment. I wa...

I did it again. I did it again. I gave another person privileges according to their attractiveness. I'm leaving the parking lot and I stopped at the cross walk. I'm a city guy so bump a cross walk, if I need to get through I'm going to rush the pedestrians out of the way. No, I don't run over pedestrians I just inch out a bit so they know I'm going through. Well, I would have normally done that but there was a very interesting missess that I wanted to enjoy walk out in front of me. That's when it happened. I remembered writing about this very thing: how I treat people according to their attractiveness and give privileges to those that I consider more attractive than others. So in this case, I'm more likely to be rude and run over a pedestrian if I don't care for them. But let a good looking female walk out in fron of my car. I become the most polite some of a gun you ever met.

I've been jamming to Valerie as of late. I can't get enough of that song. This Amy Winehouse stuff won't go away. Here's an article insinuating that drugs were not found in her system . I also remember saying how her death put her in the category of other young artists that died at age 27. So did this article . I don't get it but I really think the chick was killed.

So glad they are over this now . I'm a die hard Hokie but this struck me as interesting because I have been looking for jobs with this university . Hope they get it together or that will be one less force to keep VT from making it to the ACC Championship this year!

Tomorrow class will be in session and I don't exactly have it all together. Trust, I'll have it on point by class time. This semester I've made a few changes. Instead of doing 8 week sessions to bring in the bank, I'm teaching the full 16-week semester. This will give me more time to focus on the students and actually give me time to plan assignments. Assignments: that's another area I have bulked up on. Buddy boy those that had me last Spring had it good. I rarely had assignments but I was hard on them when it came to the work they actually did turn in. This time I'm more informed and am ready to facilitate the progress of my students. The only thing right now I'll be somewhat winging is this public speaking class I picked up last week. Enrollment for that class was through the roof so I took on that course to make sure I had enough classes to keep me at a certain income level. Speaking of enrollment all my classes are full. I want to roll my ...

I don't get very many opportunities to speak in public. What am I saying? I'm a speech professor. What I mean is that I don't get very many opportunities to prepare a message for an audience. I actually have a love-hate relationship with opportunities like that. I love it when it's over but I hate all the work that I have to do that leads to them. Sometimes I'm on it. Sometimes I'm not, but even when I'm not my gift of gab kicks in and I psyche people out by my charm. So tomorrow afternoon I get to speak at an outdoor community event in honor of school starting back up. Now that I have this blog, it has proven to be a great way for me to talk and think through opportunities like this. As much as I tell my students to practice their speeches aloud and not in their heads, I'm tempted to go against my own instruction out of pure laziness. Consider this one of many steps to move away from what I am tempted to do seeing as how this speech will be del...

As much as I hate quoting untraceable studies, according to previous instructors a person's degree of attractiveness influences his or her likability and their ability to persuade. This is common knowledge. Think about it. A popular night club will never hire an ugly person. A smart marketing agency will not hire an ugly person. There is a certain swagger that these industries look for and to make the grade you better not in the least be considered ugly. That's the marketing field. So what does this have to do with me? For the past week, I've considered how this dynamic influences me. My sister and I had a brief but hysterical conversation about how ugly people stay loosing. For some reason I more openly express frustration, annoyance, and all around disgust with people who I consider to be not so easy on the eyes. On the other hand I'm more patient and easy going with people that I consider attractive. This is true for people I think are attractive physically, s...

To give some context to this statement I'll tell the story of Ruth and Boaz. Ruth's husband died and she decided to stay with her mother in law, Naomi. Naomi and Ruth are dirt poor and go through a lot of tragedy where they are. Instead of returning back to her family she decides to keep the customs of her mother in law. Naomi has a distant relative Boaz, who happens to be mad rich. Naomi tells Ruth to work in Boaz's field to make ends meet. Long story short Boaz takes a liking to Ruth and eventually they get married. Through all of the struggle Ruth went through she ends up with someone that is best for her. Now that you know this story you will understand this comment I saw on facebook: Hey Ladies, "Ruth patiently waited for her mate Boaz. While waiting on YOUR Boaz, don't settle for ANY of his relatives: Brokeaz, Poaz, Lyinaz, Cheatinaz, Dumbaz, Cheapaz, Lockedupaz Goodfornothinaz, Lazyaz or Marriedaz and especially his third cousin Beatinyoaz. Please, wait o...