The Random Thoughts of Louis Schmier

Limits and perceptions. That’s what I was thinking about this morning as I moved along the dark streets. But, I almost didn’t make iohe streets this morning. I DID NOT want to go out for a walk this morning. When I woke up I felt like every movement need an earth-moving effort. I was tighter [...]

It was an interesting walk this morning. When I walk the dark, quiet streets, I take myself out of sight, away from where things that are happening, where shadows hide threat and exposure, and the day’s sounds have yet to echo, out of the line of fire. The pre-dawn streets are free from clogging traffic. [...]

Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 04:10:50 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Random Thought: It’s 3:28 a.m. I’m having trouble sleeping. My head is pounding, my nose is stuffed, my eyes burn from a sinus cold that erupted Sunday without warning. The medicene is working too, too slowly. I’ve been roaming among the student journals, project evaluations, my [...]

A lot of people have been writing me, mostly off-list, saying something like, “Wow, that’s a lot of ‘whethers’.” And I’ve been answering each person, until my newly manicured nails (I’m still clean from my nail-biting habit–a week over seven months since my fingers have approached my mouth) threaten to crack. So, as I’ve done [...]

Got hit by a question Friday by both some students during a Tootsie Pop clutch in the Student Union and an e-mail friend on the internet. I promised them an answer tomorrow. They wanted to know, what with education being THE issue of the 90′s, what I thought was the greatest danger to my teaching [...]

The clock says it’s 5:05. I just came in from doing what seemed to be a five mile breast-stroke through the heavy and quiet darkness. The incessant, torrential rains of the stormy last few days have left the humidity at flood level. Even the mosquitoes have put on their water wings. As I wandered the [...]

It’s a dreary day. It’s hard to think of the sunning shining in the sky above the overcast of thick, swirling, black, threatening clouds. The rain is falling in torrents. The wind is up. The thunder is thundering. And the lightening is flashing. My disc-less neck is really aching because of the low atmospheric pressure. [...]