Someone typed “ingested glade” into a search engine, found, and clicked on my blog.
I’m delighted on multiple levels. First, on the awesomeness of words. Second, by the fact that while this individual was experiencing a minor medical emergency, they still chose to click on my blog. There, they found information about Christmassing the fuck out [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Berry Bursts
Posted in mistakes, tagged glade on January 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On Marking and Hating
Posted in teaching, tagged Romeo and Juliet, To Kill a Mockingbird on January 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I loathe marking. I hate it more than I thought possible. I hate it so much that sometimes I’ll dream about marking and then wake up and feel robbed of my freedom. I hate marking because I know, I know as I write lengthy notes of critique, that the chance of it being read is [...]
2008
Posted in resolutions on January 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have resolutions.
1. Be nicer. Sometimes I’m mean to people (who deserve it), but I’ve had too many experiences where my sarcasm has been taken earnestly and I appear to be quite the cold pickle. In one case I had inadvertently led a nice man to believe that I was putting down my 5 month [...]
