September 2009
20 posts
Self-Medicating the Nerd Way
Okay, so I’m pretty discouraged about my students’ screwups. I figured I had two options:
1. Drink the pain away.
2. Join the chess club.
Guess which one I chose.
On Teaching...
It kills me when they fail.
It breaks my heart.
Thumbs Up
Last night I sat in my bubble-filled bathtub and drank a glass of wine and read Martin Eden.
Tonight I sat in a clean, bright, totally empty laundromat and knitted while watching Mad Men.
It’s becoming apparent that I’m a goddamn hermit, but I consider this a great weekend.
Incongruous
Okay, I don’t know how it happened. I really don’t.
One minute he was playing cards with his buddies at the kitchen table and I was making an ice cream float at the counter, and then suddenly we were talking and I asked him if I could and he agreed as long as nobody would know about it.
So I drew a unicorn tattoo on my boyfriend.
And then he agreed to get a unicorn tattoo, but only...
I would like you to dance!
I am too damn lazy for comments, so here’s a big happy (belated) birthday to Dooey, my very favorite blogger in this strange Internet world. You are super.
stop the fucking presses
I haven’t watched Top Model in ages, but cycles 1-6, I was hooked. My favorite part came approximately twenty-three times a cycle when Tyra or Jay (but mostly Tyra, of course, because ANTM itself is mostly Tyra) would admonish one of the models to remember to “smile with your eyes!”
I’m watching Top Model right now, for the first time in close to two years, and I kid you...
This is blatantly biased.
I care about the issues. I do. I can talk about health care, civil rights, the economy, education, energy policy. I want it to be about the issues.
But in the last week, I’ve become convinced that a person should just choose his or her political party based on how much of an asshat he or she is.
Fact:
Juliette Lewis annoys the crap out of me. I think she’s just dreadful.
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Dear Student,
I do NOT look like Kristen Stewart.
You’re just a freshman, so I’ll forgive it. But just so you know, that (or anything resembling it) is a really weird thing to say to your teacher.
Love,
Your Comp Instructor
WatchHello from Aberdeen, SD.
