As I mentioned in my last post, pretty soon E and I are going to be hopping the pond (that other one, filled with tsunamis and shit) to visit Japan, Korea and Vietnam. Though we’ve both kind of vaguely wanted to go on an Asia trip before this – even so far as considering teaching [...]
Carrie Brownstein, of Sleater-Kinney and NPR music guru fame, posted a thing today about comments. Specifically, about the slew of nasty, awful comments that proliferate on sites like Youtube and what the proliferation of comments like these say, if anything, about us today. I’ve seen enough of these comments to just kind of mentally filter [...]
Because it just seems so much more overwhelming to write a full length entry:* 1. I’ve signed up to take the LSAT. This will be happening June 8th. Trying to study for it when I can – those logic puzzles are a doozy, but actually kind of fun to solve, in a perverse sort of [...]
I have an upset student in my office now, in the throes of a nervous breakdown. He’d written down the wrong day for his final, in a course in which he’d had an A. I couldn’t get a hold of the professor, but did manage to catch the TA, who said: “yikes, um, he’s gonna [...]
