Addendum: 17. Calling an ex-boyfriend with the "one last fling" in mind. As for the bride who just told me about doing that very thing, I give the marriage 10 months before they get the "irreconciliable differences."
The best professors I ever had were the ones with keen senses of humor and a good knowledge of their stuff. That combination actually makes people learn. And BTW, if you start out early as a prof, you get grey pretty fast. ;-)
Yeah, well, I'm young and idealistic, if just a wee bit cynical. ;-)
I'm laughing, but I'm groaning, too. They must be on cable. The ones I'm used to seeing are for the semi-retired crowd who watch the evening news whilst running to and from the bathroom which I surmise, based on the commercials, is due to their Depends not quite staying up; or perhaps they need to take Cialis so they can "do it" within the next 36 hours and let's hope, hope, HOPE that they can really "choose" when that moment comes and that i
Okay. I'll go check your page right now.... :)
Dang it, I just googled "enzyte" 'cause I didn't know what it was. Thanks a lot. ;-(
Appeals process depends on how fast the committee wants to meet. Could be this week, though they won't normally meet. Usually it's all resolved in three weeks, but we're almost at the end of term, so I don't know. To the best of my knowledge, the committee in question has never overturned a faculty decision, so that's on my side. Still, it's an annoyance and a burden and I'm a new teacher (no tenure or anything) so I'm not sure what kind of ho
Oooooooh, no. Me too. Especially the car ads, but mostly the prescription drug ads: "Ask your doctor about this product! We're not going to tell you what it's for, unless it's erectile dysfunction, in which case we're going to talk about it way too much to make it more uncomfortable for you to watch TV with your future inlaws who still think you're both virgins!" Wow, sorry, tangent. I miss the British ads: they were drier and much mo
It was coming. You can't copy and paste from the Internet and get away with it in my class. I talked to her and gave her a letter, the "official" documentation, of which copies were sent to several prominant campus people. She tried to convince me to do anything but fail her, because failing this class means she's out of the college. So not only have I bummed her out, I've kicked her out, too. Excellent. You know what she said to me before sh
That's twice now I've agreed with bulbous. What is this world coming to? Lunaticus, I'll allow your point that ads are about manipulating people's consciences, but there's this thing called "taste." I think it's poor taste to exploit the personal deaths of thousands of people for political gain; on the other hand, during that time, Bush seemed to be a good leader--at least most Americans thought so (wasn't his approval around 80%?). Which is h
[quote]Maybe he is finding a key to success by not following the fallow morality of dusty philosophy books that led billions to indentured servitude and tyranny.[/quote] Yeah, plagiarism is really original thinking. I mean, that must really give people a leg up. I hope you were being sarcastic, but I can't tell.
Riding on the success of “Braveheart” Braveheart came out an awfully long time ago....
I laughed a lot. I wonder what a fish's diary would be: -T.
Today I discovered a student who blatantly plagiarized something off the Internet and turned it in as his* own. According to my policy, I am supposed to fail him. This is the first time any student has plagiarized in a class from me, that I know of; and he's a good kid: smart, funny, though not a regular attendee by any means. I don't want to fail him but I promised I would at the beginning of class. And it's not like he didn't know my policy;
I'm not talking about a legal right; no one "owns" what happened on September 11. I guess I'm wondering if he has a moral right. If the terrorist attacks on that date were on America, then every American in some way owns a part of what happened then, Bush included. But is it an equal distribution of "right"? On the Today show, Katie Couric interviewed three women about Bush's campaign ads. Two of the three women felt Bush was profiting from Se
Oh! I always wondered what that part meant. Wow. Puzzle.... Pieces.... all coming together. (I swear I'm not blonde or dumb, and have at least once had a constructive debate about yin and yang in literature in a symbolic way, but I never knew what those little dots meant.)
Yeah, poetphilosopher, you're right on with my tone. He and I go together like yin and yang--exactly opposite but hey, it fits. :) -T.
Heh, funny. What's "Anishnaabe-kwe"? Sounds vaguely African, but that doesn't make sense.
It must be a state of quasi-maturity, then; I can admit my faults but not very maturely. :) Thanks. Cheers.
Fiance and I went in for first ever pre-marital counseling session. First the nice bald man poked gently at our history, asking where we met, how we started dating, etc. That was fine and dandy and then he asked about the engagement. We both told the story, fiance deferring to me at one point because "I tell it better," says he. Then the counselor starts rifling through what turns out to be an invasive list of personal questions. I wanted to h
Yeah, or we could do what Swift suggested in A Modest Proposal: we could just eat the unwanted children. The ones with less serious diseases could be sold more expensively, maybe even for human consumption (no brains or spinal cords, though--don't exactly want the human form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy) whereas the ones with, I dunno, HIV maybe, could be used as fertilizer. Sure! Good plan. Seriously, if you watch Maury or Jerry Spring
I love a good bumper sticker, as long as it's not depreciating the value of my car. My favorite political one thus far is the following: "Republicans for Voldemort" Link and Link www.goats.com is the maker and I don't follow all their comic strips, but it's worth a gander (which is punny if you see the site). <BR
A point I was just about to make, BulbousHead. Good one.
Poetphilosopher, Good point. A pitfall for me was trying to figure out what parts, or whole, of the Bible were indeed metaphor. It gets to be a slippery slope, and I don't know how some people manage to keep their faith and believe only portions of the Bible. It's like believing the parts that make you feel good, making the Bible conform to your worldview. I'm not sure how to deal with that part. -T.
As hard as civil argumentation in the context of the article must be, perhaps you should take your toys and go home. I always wanted to use that one. Seriously, if you think I'm looking for everyone to agree with me, you're dumber than I thought.
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