7-7:10pm: Check in, narrate your day….
7:10-7:30pm: Samantha Irby, comedy….
Real. Aggressive. Different than Sedaris…. Do a quick search on her… what do you find? What do you notice?
7:30-7:50pm: What have you been writing for YOU? What are some of the observations you have been recording in your journal? Tell your colleagues about what you submitted to me. Feel free to post some parts of it below!!
7-50-8pm: What’s on tonight’s page?
ASSIGNMENT: Turn in Sedaris essay by next class…. Let me know if you want to do a zoom or FaceTime, or just regular call, office hour.
Buy Irby’s book!!!!!! Please read the first 4 essays…..
Good evening everyone!
Good Afternoon everyone! This morning was quiet busy, I had a full schedule all day at the hospital and then went to pick my boys up then came straight home, picked up a little bit, started dinner and now class.
Hello everyone!
Hi everyone!
I can’t respond to individual comments. I am watching, though. I am holding the baby right now! Have fun tonight, you guys!
Hello, hope everyone is doing well
What have you all been riding? How full is your journal?
My day has been crazy, but slowly getting better.
Thanks for being here!!
I meant writing!
Hey everyone!
Hey Claudia!!!!
good evening everyone! Today was a pretty hectic day mentally wise and somewhat physically. But just like we talked about last class I was doing a lot of overthinking but I was able to talk about it with my girlfriend who was also having a mentally hectic day and we decided that we are in control of our own paths
You do what you can…. Thanks for being here!
Man I feel like I have a lot on my frustrations and my boys.
A story??
So far my day has gone really slow, I’ve just been doing homework and other chores but is really keeping me distracted. I am very excited about the weekend and can’t wait to relax for a bit.
Hello everyone. If I were to narrate my day it would not be much. My days tend to read like a shampoo bottle wash, rinse, and REPEAT. At least during the weekdays, you know get up, get kids up, and breakfast. Tell kids to get to their zoom meetings and watch my nephew. Lunchtime is time to cook, Although I did make what the kids called fancy chicken nuggets. Those are just chicken nuggets tossed in orange sauce, yes they were better and it did seem fancier for some reason. Back to zoom and watching kids. End the day by making dinner and then relaxing except on Tuesday and Thursday when I have English with you all.
very cool way of narrating your day!
I agree!!
Good to see you Michael..
Hello everyone, today was a very long day. My grandpa passed away this morning, so I spent the whole day at his house to see him and my family.
I’m sorry for your loss.
Sorry for your loss. Thanks for being here.
So sorry for your loss Ethonn. Sending lots of love and positive energy to you and your family.
Hey Kaylin!! Thanks for being here!!
sorry for your loss.
Wow. I recently also had a very close family member pass, hard things to go through. I wish you the best clarity and happiness going forward.
Sorry for your loss.
How’s it going guys hope everyone is having a great evening so far.
hi guys! my day was filled with studying for my math midterm!
Same here!
its very fun isnt it! Ha!
Good evening!!! my day was pretty nice. had a few classes, went grocery shopping, and then made some delicious oatmeal fluff cookie sandwiches!
JULIA!!!!!!!
Hey hey hey!!!!
Good to see you. Have fun tonight.
Very chill day today. Refreshing. I lifted this morning then read some manga for a while. it was an ok piece so I played Among Us with my friends. It is always nice to be able to talk to them since we are all spread out right now. I ate Panda Express and it was the highlight of my day. Love the honey walnut shrimp. I get it once a week and cannot wait. Also started watching a new anime called Inuyashiki. Had a lot of graphic scenes I was not expecting but they made me think about what constitutes humanity so it is so far a good watch. I also have been writing about the animes I watch. I like to write a little review and rate them out of 100. Helps me remember them when I look back and it comes in handy when I want to suggest one to my friends. Turning it into a Word Doc so I can just share it with them.
Nice little narration here. Thanks for sharing!
Royal China is the best!!! Had it for lunch!
TODAY????? Damn I’m jelz..
Honey walnut shrimp is a must! I always get that lol
Dude… Go to Royal China y’alll… get that real sh/t.
Sure did! Today! Sizzling rice soup is the bomb there.
Recently I have being writing lab reports for my chemistry class and writing the report for my research project on Carbon!
Okay… I’m at the keyboard now… BRING IT!!!!! Let’s get into some writing… what you have in your journals… Some open mic maybe?? Excited for our meeting tonight.
Hello everyone!
Hi there!!!
My day was very busy. One of my best friends recently got pregnant, and unfortunately seems to be a very complicated pregnancy so Ive been helping her out a lot these past couple days due to her being on bed rest. Woke up early, drove her to San Rafael for a doctors appointment, ran errands while they were attending her, then after that went to visit her family, drove her home, did homework, took a much needed nap, ate dinner, and now I’m here with you guys! (:
Take more notes in your journal. Avoid sentences, at least at first. I today was noting aspects of my home office….”Phone like a brick that makes money…. Cords like snacks, life and identity dotes….”
Hello everyone!
I had a productive day. I worked for a couple of hours, got some chores done, then I got called in to helped my younger sister with homework
Something new that I have been trying is writing my prayers and also listing my blessings, sometimes we forget how blessed we are. We all have moments where we feel like the world is falling apart but being able to see and realize the things I have been blessed with brings me comfort.
Samantha Irby… one of my favorite essayists. Look her up really quick. What do you see, what do you find… what do you feel?
My day was busy like always. Had to go to some appointment and do so homework that’s its do on Saturday.
I find her writing simple, easy. Not that it lacks skill, it’s just gentle, truthful, inviting and poised.
Good evening everyone, my day started quite weird, i accidentally slept in till 11:55 ( 5 minutes before my first class) and im nit really sure how that happened since i went to bed at 10:30. Then after class me and my friend went to good will to pick out our costume for this decades themed surprise birthday party for our other friend tomorrow (When i say party i mean the 8 close knit people I have been seeing since COVID started). had some lunch and now i’m here. Pretty good day, how was everyone elses? sorry for the late post, i was having webpage errors earlier trying to post.
Thanks for being here. Looking forward to reading your responses and posts.
I am typing and holding the baby at the same time!
RESPECT. You get it. Thanks for being here, and love to that little baby!!! <3
Its hard but at the end its worth it!
Yep.
She’s raw, Ms. Irby. Consider her blog title, “Bitches Gotta Eat”… Homegirl is unafraid and such an awesome beacon of humanness.
LOVE her blog title
Word…. The REALNESS.
first thing I see when I search her up, is her website where she mentions her blog, and I gotta say, the name is awesome. bitchesgottaeat. LOVE IT lol
So raw and REAL. I swear, we need more of that. Writers that put it out there and don’t excessively edit or “polish”.
Just searched up Samantha Irby and wow her bio had me laughing. She definitely seems like a friend who would keep everyone laughing.
YES!! Describe that feeling…
Today I tried my hand at a little cajun food, something simple like red beans and rice. My wife and I both really enjoyed it, my kids not so much. Starting with the oldest one he does try really hard to appreciate new foods, he says all the right things yet his face shows a different story, you know that face your kid makes when they did something wrong and hope you didn’t notice. Then my youngest takes a bite and said “i don’t like it”, fair enough. Finally my middle child comes to the table and looks at the food and just blurts, “if I say I at at my friends do I have to eat it”. I of course just drop into a laugh and excuse them all. More for Me…..
Nice!!
What I’ve noticed about Irby, is that she’s similar to Sedaris in the sense of being an “essayist” she writes about moments of herself but comedy.
OK I freaking love her already! She’s my type of person. Hella funny! Kinda sounds like me lol
Okay.. but turn it into a description, and definition, argument if you will. Why, specifically?
I think Samantha Irby’s Look makes me feel like she is very open and is happy all the time! And he is a gay author too.
She… and why is that noteworthy?
It is not, but it was interesting that there a common connection between her and Sedaris.
Samantha is an over-sharer about bad habits and dating habits.
Such as….?
On how she stays day drinking on the couch.
Nice… good.
She seems very direct. Very honest about how she views the world kind of like Sedaris. From the little I have seen.
What did you find on her, Duncan?
So far I watched a couple podcasts where she was a guest and read some parts of her essays.
And…..?
I used the word direct because I think her honesty comes in a different way than Sedaris. More brash. More to the point. But I need to read her essays completely before I solidify my opinion on her writing.
After typing her name on google search I came across “bitches Gotta Eat,” and OMG! Samantha is an open book lol
Explain..
Samantha openly says she peed to the public on her blog, something I would keep private. She’s confident and shameless
She’s a realist, lol another one like Sedaris who has no filter and tells it like it is. lol
I love her blog! best one lol
Why do you LOVE it?
Can’t wait to read more about her!
I find Irby’s writing way charming, and encouraging. Older I get, I’m tired of people not being honest. And she’s honest, AF.
She is sarcastic and makes me feel like all of what she say’s is what I think but won’t say. lol
I feel this
Why?
When I looked Samantha Irby up the first thing I came across was her blog ‘bitchesgottaeat’ and on the home page it literally says “some dude named “dave” gave we are never meeting in real life two stars on goodreads and, okay, he had some valid points” and thats pretty funny. Ive browsed around her blog a bit and its pretty funny, pretty ironic, pretty real. I like it
Elaborate..
I think she is like Sedaris in the sense that she comments on things in the way that she isnt concerned about how other people think or feel about the topics.
What makes you say that?
Like Sedaris, she makes fun of the things one doesn’t want to talk out loud about. Like, she really posted on her blog, “Things I’ve accidentally peed on a little bit” and went on to talking how she no longer has full control of her bladder and the ways it has made her pee. It’s random, but interesting! She’s funny, and has that “I don’t care, I’m going to write about it, its funny” mentality like Sedaris.
Making fun of, or making sense of…?
Good point!
She writes about relationships, with others and herself. This is an essay collection about self and perception… about love and health, mental health. The doors don’t exist…
Very funny! definitely open book!