irc (in response to comments) 1/8/08

I think I'll do this if there are comments on the previous post I'd like to respond to. Don't know if that's proper "form" or not, but hey, it's my blog.

Hi Rosebud. Thanks for reading my blog! I love reading yours, it's very amusing. Anyway, I think you commented before I finished writing the post (sometimes I write them in installments), I hope you go back to read the rest of it.

For Poetry Out Loud you recite a memorized poem, complete with your interpretation of it. You don't want to be over-the-top dramatic with it, but you are supposed to read with proper inflection and emotion, as if you are the speaker. It's like any poetry slam at a coffee house or something, except it's a competition (go here http://poetryoutloud.org/poems/video_bestpractices.html if you'd like some examples). The poem Self-Employed isn't talking about someone actually being fired, of course, so I don't think that kind of experience would be very applicable. It's simply a funny poem about something I think we've all experienced, the wish that you could fire yourself from the job of being you, and hire someone else for a while.