[Englecturers] Re: [Gsa-english] The Sleeper has Awaken

[Michael LeBlanc]

Matt,
she is absolutely gorgeous! Congratulations from
Madona and me. We know from experience that you'll
have a schizophrenic, panic-filled euphoric, ride of
your life. 

We are moving to New York within the week. Can you
send us your address so that we might keep in touch?

We wish you and your family the absolute best.

Sincerely,
Michael




 --- Matthew Snyder <mattysny at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hello English Department People and Other Sadistes
> de le Mot,
> 
> It comes with much joy and little personal cost that
> I announce the birth of 
> my first child, Sakura Charlene Snyder.  Since the
> Globalized Age of hybrid 
> cars that are made both in Japan and the US are
> wholly upon us, we have 
> struck a middle ground of sorts with Japanese-y
> first name (Sakura 
> translates in Japanese to mean cherry blossom) and a
> last name that is 
> firmly entrusted in the vocabulary of Americana
> (i.e. Snyder Bread).  Unlike 
> my wife, I had the fortunate opportunity to watch
> the violence ensue with 
> little or no personal discomfort.  At some point I
> expected a flying saucer 
> to come down through the roof and transport us to an
> alien rave-party with 
> plastic punch cups and a slip'n'slide machine
> spouting soap bubbles.  So 
> much changed in one moment.  Like a nearby piece of
> used furniture, I 
> watched my wife blankly reduced to tears and a slack
> jaw as Tomoko spent 9 
> hours ejecting 10 percent of her body weight.  The
> birth was neither 
> beautiful (Magical!) or ugly (Oy!), but it was
> somewhere above and beyond 
> those common descriptions of the birthing process. 
> It was beyond all codes, 
> symbols and vernaculars.  I thought to myself that
> humans are nothing more 
> than a series of Russian Dolls connected by the
> cosmic length of one endless 
> umbilical cord.  Each navel promises the potential
> for another life 
> underneath.  Echoes under milky shadows.
> 
> Weighing in at fiesty and small, toothless and
> tenacious 6 pounds and 2 
> ounces, my daughter was born on the immaculately
> well-timed date of Father's 
> Day (6-17-2007).  She is on the national narcotic
> known as breast milk and 
> spends most of her time in a heavy spin rotation of
> poop, sleep, suck, poop, 
> sleep and so on and so forth.
> 
> Because both of our families live thousands of miles
> away, we have all of 
> your support to thank in providing us with your
> warmth, humor and advice.  
> Several friends went out of their way to feed us and
> visit Sakura as she 
> copes with the miracle and horror of a newfangled
> world.
> 
> The Japanese Burrito has been unwrapped!
> 
> With Transpacific Warmth,
> 
> 
> Matthew Snyder                                      
>                         
> Tomoko Inoue Snyder
> 
> Ph.D. Candidate (A.B.D.-All But Destroyed)          
>                  
> Stressed-out Mother
> Department of English                               
>                         
>       with Pick Axe
> University of California-Riverside
> (951) 276-0846
> 
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> Website:
> 
> http://www.myspace.com/closingknives
> 
>
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