This week has seemed long, despite it’s only being four days. Maybe it’s because it was my first real week of teaching since I got here 9 months ago.
I say that because tables have turned and schedules have been rewritten, and it seems I am going to be earning my keep this time around. I […]
I guess y’all can check for yourselves. Guess where I’m from?
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70% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Yankee
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Today I went to school, as I usually do on weekdays, and sat at my desk, as I normally do on days when there are no students or classes. It was a low-key day, not many people there. Turns out it was a holiday celebrating the anniversary of the founding of the school.
As a matter […]
This past Saturday I played Ultimate frisbee. I guess it had been a few years since the last time I got roped into playing fetch, and it was sounding kind of fresh and fun instead of like a game only your dog is dumb enough to get tricked into.
Anyway, the warm-up was fine, even fun, […]
I want this blog to be good. I want to say pithy things that are thoughtful and insightful and worth reading and worthy of commentary, and all sorts of other pretentious aspirations and pretty soon I’m as vain as a little starlet composing her Oscar acceptance speech. What will future generations think of me? Will […]