7-710pm: Settle in…. How’s your day?
710-730pm: What do you want to discuss about Sedaris? What ideas do you want to share with us?
730-750pm: Passages that made you FEEL something. What did they make you feel, think?
750-8pm: Close…. What’s on your page?
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Hey everyone! I’m helping my sister move into her new house. Currently building a dresser then I will build a Tv stand.
Thanks for being here, Victor. Welcome.
That’s cool Victor I just built my son a loft bed with a desk under it.
Whatup, 7PM crew!!! I’m here!!! How is everyone? How was your week?
I wrote to self today a reminder, to make more time for self and not pressure self to produce… Rather, let surroundings speak to you and instruct.
Hello!!!
How is everyone doing?
Hi Quince!! Good to see you! How was your day?
My day was great!
I am having trouble sending a good quality photo to you ( I don’t have a Smart phone/ too distracting) I am working on typing all my notes on to my computer and I’ll send it to you!
Just type your notes instead, or part of them..
Good evening!!!
À toi aussi!! How are you?
je vais bien. Comment s’est passée ta journée??
Amazing!!
Hola everyone
If you have kids, or are around kids… listen to them. Observe. Learn. Their instruction is far more profuse and pronounced than you might think.
I agree with this. My middle child is Autistic and if I didn’t learn how to listen we would have been in a world of trouble. I tell him regularly he has helped me grow a human more than anyone or thing ever.
Love this. Thanks for sharing.
Hey everyone
Hi Claudia!! Welcome!!
Yes! Love this!
Good Evening everyone!!! My day was really productive! ran errands on my lunch and was busy at the hospital!
Thanks for being here!
Hello all!
HI!
Hi everyone! Today was not my day, a patient attacked me and I slipped in the shower while giving another patient a shower.
Sorry Cassandra. Glad you’re safe now, and here with us. Have a fun hour with your colleagues… 🙂
OMG glad your ok and your safe. I know that all to well. I’m so sorry you went through that. Sending you positive healing vibes.
Thanks for these kind words toward your colleague…
Thanks, it’s not the first time it happen to me and probably won’t be the last.
Be safe, my friend.
Are you okay? Definitely glad you are here to share.
Yea just a few scratches.
Thanks for these kind words toward your colleague..
Had a rough start, did not eat enough yesterday and did not eat breakfast. Then I felt like I was going to throw up during my workout. Started an interesting new book though.
My day was awesome I got to take a nap. Oh and I finished all my homework.
That’s good!
Hey Guys! Had a good day, trying to find a desk that fits my shoebox of a room. Challenge accepted!
See above post of Victors, Bed above the desk, done.
Will look into that! Sounds like a good idea
Hello everyone today has been quite hectic but otherwise its been amazing.
Thanks for being here!
Hello Everyone! I had a great day today. I tried a new sandwich place and it was delicious!
I’ll Bite. HAHA what was the place.
Sourdough and co. it just opened in novato
Hello guys !
Hi Kaylin! How are you?
Hey guys today was a typical day, just spent all day at work. My coworker bought me lunch and it was really good so that was probably the highlight of my day.
Hey guys hope everyone is having a great evening. So far my day has been great I got to hang out with my cousins at Scandia it was great.
Please change your profile to reflect full name.
My day was kinda busy with school work, I designed a custom planner to help me keep all my classes organized and on track. I can’t wait for it to come. I am taking a road trip with my boyfriend tomorrow to AZ to pick up the new camping trailer we bought. 2021 Momentum 320g baby!
My day started off by taking a walk around my neighborhood with my younger brother. Once we came home, we made breakfast for my family. Overall, it was a good day of relaxing and doing homework.
Hope everyone is doing well! My day so far has been mellow. The smoke has pretty much cleared up in my area so I went for a nice relaxing hike earlier today, then just hung out after that but overall, day has been great!
So glad that smoke is starting to fade…
Good evening everyone. My day has had a lot of work in it but also time for fun.
Hi Garin! Good to see you!
I am currently starting dinner with one of my favorite sides… mashed PURPLE Cauliflower. YUM and soooo pretty in color
Sounds so good! I’m hungry! lol
Good evening everyone. My day had a lot of work in it but was still fun. A catch up kind of day. Felt productive which is always a good feeling.
Good evening everyone. My day had a lot of work in it but was still fun. A catch up kind of day. Felt productive which is always a good feeling.
So one common theme I find in Sedaris’ writings is his desire for friendship. Does anyone else notice that?
Definitely… colleagues??
yes, like with the cellphone guy.
Yes!!!
I would have to agree he seems like he is a people pleaser. Even when he was on the swim team he was okay with losing because, ” somebody has to lose” he saidq
Omg yes! I feel like because he wanted to badly to be liked and accepted and made feel normal for who is truly was at a young age that, that made him the person he is today. Accepting of people that are different because we all are.
I feel like Sedaris is the type of friend who as soon as you start up a conversation with he gathers all the information and makes no judgement on you until he fully knows the true you. He may think all these thoughts about you but he analyzes every situation, and gathers all his information together to make sense of it all. In The Lagger Heads he states that, that was when he started to realize he was not a “normal” boy, he avoided playing with them so that he didn’t have to struggle with trying hard to pretend to act like the rest of the boys. I felt that. He made me feel some type of way. Like it isn’t fair, he shouldn’t have ever felt like he needed to do that but it happens and it made me wish we could all just be more accepting of each other like he does.
Hello Everyone!
Does Sedaris essays/ stories always jump around to different things, because sometimes I get confused.
me too!
yes!!!
I also feel he goes from the NOW to reminiscing on his past.
Great minds think alike.
I feel as though it is not jumping around as much as it is back story.
I agree.
I am bought in to the hook and I want to keep reading to see if he finds that friend and not just Hugh of course.
I day haven’t gone so well! I might have my baby tonight getting a lot of contractions!
Exciting!!!
OMG! Thats painful yet very exciting! Good Luck momma! and Congrats!
Thank you!
Good luck!!
So exciting, ahh congrats!!!
How are you able to focus on a class, wow, you are much stronger than I am.
Yes, it’s hard to focus.
How exciting!! Hoping all goes well for you!! (:
Thank you!
Good evening everyone! my day had a lot of work in it but it was fun. A catch up day kinda. Very productive which always feels good. (sorry for the out of time slot response, my wordpress logged me out and I had trouble signing back in.)
You already posted this.
accident!
oh It said my post didn’t work each time so i kept on trying, very embarrassing, sorry about that haha.
Technology Is great until it isn’t.
The beginning of “A friend in the ghetto” is really interesting. When I get a sales call I never give them a chance to get the second word in, but he keeps the man on the phone. He also was upset when the phone ringing the next day wasn’t him.
oh that was the cutest!
Especially how it ended with him hoping that he would still get a call someday.
Hey guys, I had a hard time understanding what Sedaris meant by “His voice had snakes in it. And Dysentery, and mangoes”, can someone help explain to me how dysentery and mangoes relative to the way the salesman spoke.
Something appealing, then something not…. Maybe. 🙂
Makes sense
I am wondering what that means too.
See my comment… I have an idea.
His voice was both good and bad and it would depend on what part you heard.
Very true. There is a lot of duality and contradiction in Sedaris’ paragraphs..
I need more activity y’all!!! Talk about the passages, what they made you feel… what you want to learn from Sedaris…
I learned how desperate how Sedaris wants to make friends from A Friend in Ghetto
and how friends are really important.
Example of this desperation?
when he was annoyed by the phone salesman, but when he hung up the phone. Next day he got a call and was desperate that it was the salesman.
David Sedaris made me feel like I could write better. I just need to write more and write everything I see.
Where did he make you feel this?
“If I Ruled the World”
Specific passages?
This is how i feel. Reading his stories makes me feel like i can connect to the readers.
How, emotionally?
“ I’ve got to get out of here, you could sense him thinking, as he clawed , desperate and wild-eyed, at the windowpane, or tried to squeeze himself underneath the door.” (Pg.62)
Oh god, I feel for the poor Squirrel. Those mischievous children probably left him/her traumatized.
“Loggerheads”
In A Friend in the Ghetto, when his mother says ” you need people like that in your life so you can feel better about yourself” , I got a little upset because I feel like we shouldn’t be using each other like that, but rather help each other feel better together.
Great!! Revealing..
ok this made me hella mad! I think he is also the way he is because he didn’t like how his mom thought.
Hmmm…..
I think that it showed how mature he was at that age.
Explain….
Well I think that to be able to realize that your own parent is in the wrong and you are able to not do it yourself in the future. That is a very adult thing to do in my opinion.
My Favorite of the readings was Logger Heads. When he came to the realization that he was trapped as much as the creatures that he a Shaun would put in their fish tanks.
Was there a dominant message in that piece, for you as a reader?
Yes that even the smallest of things in nature can contribute to what you learn in life.
Very interesting how fast Sedaris can make a connection with someone else he barley knows. I like that about him, good role to follow.
He made me feel like no one was born known and you have to explore to learn.
The passage that made me feel something was “If I ruled the world.” I honestly had to read it twice. Coming from him I was confused on why he wrote the piece. After some deep thought I realized he was not being serious…
But if you think more he was thinking in a way that someone he doesn’t agree with and that is quite impressive.
Where else do you find this, Haley?
He does it often in his writing. He examines a situation out and what peoples motives could be.
It felt like a slippery slope argument, like this is how far it could go if you let it.
I think with Sedaris, it can be a little difficult at times to know if he’s being serious or not. At least for myself! WHich I also believe is what makes his stories that more interesting.
Yes that is true!
If I ruled the world made me some type of way. Poking fun of religion is always taboo, but then the more I thought about it, and if im understanding him, he was more making fun of extremist who push their beliefs on someone who might not be interested, or how extreme some people go to suggest that everyone and their mom are going to hell, just cuz they dont agree
“If I Ruled the World,” made me feel something, I was kinda confused whether he was joking or not. I was questioning at first if Sedaris was religious.
What do you think?
Yes Claudia I wrote in all caps in my notes “IS HE RELIGIOUS?” So I am with you. The question is whether he was or still is?
Also When he noticed that weeks has passed and the salesman hasn’t called him back, he started assuming that the salesman went from a bad situation to something worst, had me thinking that just because someone is in a bad situation doesn’t always gets worse but they can get better. For example the salesman could of found a better job for himself.
I liked how he remained optimistic
He is “optimistic”, in his own way…
like that way of thinking.
Sedaris writing makes you feel personal or intimate with him in the sense that you know him well. Been there during the stories he tells. me, Living very different up bringing than him, and still being sucked in to understanding every thought he has within his writings and the moods of his stories shows how creative of writer he is.
Yes but often times it makes me not like him or his family. Though I still want to find out more like reading a tabloid.
hahah yeah I don’t disagree on that.
In Logger Heads, The walking into the “gentlemen’s” bathroom incident was interesting, he literally played out would would happen if he would have decided to say something about what he witnessed, and what he choose to do in the end.
Also the fact that he knew even then that he had the same proclivities, so it helped him form his decision based on a possible future.
Yes!!!