Leeannisms

1. Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008: ENC 4930, my advanced writing course. I'm standing behind someone's computer screen and I'm reading over the student's work. I see something not-so-pleasant and I find myself, without even realizing it until mid-sentence, saying (in my best LA voice): "uhm, what's this you've got going on right here," and squiqqling my index finger vigorously in the general vicinity of the trouble on the screen. Ah, the flashbacks to many a LA smackdown at the Harris pag-terminal. I almost laughed right into the back of my writerly challenged student's head.

2. I think a camel would look good here.