January 2012
70 posts
I'd like to thank 2011
for helping me man up and grow a pair in all the right ways.
December 2011
58 posts
I had a dream last night that the apocalypse was...
and you know, it wasn’t as bad as I’d expected.
“Have you ever been to youtube.com?”
– BJN
1 tag
After some Christmas gift returns...
that were the result of my very gracious Mom perpetually thinking I’m two sizes smaller and ten years older than I actually am, I now have $64 in J. Crew store credit and just no idea how I’m going to spend that. Also, with no bag and no receipt, I’m pretty sure the cashier thought I stole the clothes from another store.
Have you read Dr. Seuss's "Oh, The Places You'll...
No? I suggest you remedy this situation.
“There is nothing I do that doesn’t amaze me and everybody else”
– Interviewee for a documentary about “psychic detectives”
Pour yourself an Irish coffee...
because it’s family Christmas time!
KINDLE
I HAVE ONE!
Merry Christmas Eve, everyone. My gift to you is a Three Word Phrase comic.
Because I decided to take a red eye flight...
for a trip that causes me to lose three hours of time, Monday and Tuesday have become one very confusing, exhausting endless day. Tonday? Muesday?
This is perfect →
I love oats and I never know what to do with those almost-empty jars of peanut butter. What I wouldn’t give for this right now.
I think the stress of the past four months...
With the moving four times and the new city and the PhD program and the job search (not mine) and the severe poverty and whatnot, all came pouring out in the past hour or so. Now I’m a little drunk and sitting at an airport by myself. Hooo boy. I can’t wait to be back in Ohio.
soupsoup:
THE WHITE HOSUE
Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 18, 2011
Statement by the Press Secretary on reports of the death of Kim Jong Il
We are closely monitoring reports that Kim Jong Il is dead. The President has been notified, and we are in close touch with our allies in South Korea and Japan. We remain committed to stability on the Korean peninsula, and to the...
I'm going to make a tumblr...
called gradingisreallyterrible.tumblr.com and use it (not surprisingly) to rant about how terrible grading is.
Dear faceless student #2:
Thanks a bunch for telling me when you’ll be stopping by my office without asking if that’s an ok time for me. I’ll be waiting here for you with baited breath.
Dear Faceless student:
Being invisible all quarter and then aggressively asking to pick up your midterm, which you should have picked up weeks ago but didn’t because you “couldn’t make it to my office hours,” is not the way to get a good participation grade.
I HAVE GRADED ALL THE PAPERS
…just in time to get the final exams tomorrow.
ambiturner:
Too Logit to Quit. This song made my...
MY EYES
are going to fall out my head. I’m pretty sure.
Save for the vomiting... →
this incident is remarkably similar to my experiences on Brownie Night.
String cheese, Miller High Life and Netflix
City living is glamorous.
menorahfreak:
failbag:
momcave:
i am a heron. i ahev a long neck and i pick fish out of the water w/ my beak. if you dont repost this comment on 10 other pages i will fly into your kitchen tonight and make a mess of your pots and pans
can never be too careful!!
pots and pans
Reblogged for my pal, dobredobre.
After browsing my own archives today (because that’s the kind of Saturday I’m having) I concluded that if I actually tagged my posts, a surprisingly large portion of them would fall under “cats covered in stuff.”
In the 7th circle of hell
there is surely a sad group of grad students who sit and grade poorly structured student essays for all eternity.
The perfect scam:
Head a public access TV telethon called “Let’s Put the ‘Fun’ Back in Fundrasising!” Tell people it’s to raise awareness about disease awareness, because a lot of people aren’t aware that they could be more aware. Pocket all proceeds. There will be no need to evade the authorities, because who the hell cares about public access television scandals?
If...
I led the discussion in my social networks seminar...
Astoundingly, I did not sweat a lot (albeit there was a power surge on campus and all of the buildings’ fire alarms started going off so we had to hold a two hour class outside), nor did I sound like an idiot. We talked about the challenges and benefits of applying network concepts to online spaces, which was great because I spend almost all of my time learning about sociology or dicking...
The best thing from the review essays I'm grading...
One student claims to be skeptical of a particular author because she uses “a lot of statistics” in her article, and statistics are generally untrustworthy.
It's time
to kick off the Holiday Season with “Nat King Cole Holiday Radio” on Pandora.
To survive the Seattle winter (which is seems to...
