Because of the sensitive nature of this topic, I'm posting it in a cut.

It's the next installment (part the first of episode the second) of the Adventures of Anti-Porn Girl.

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"To me, this world is nothing but evil and all of us are full of evil one way or another in whatever we do. We have evil, all of us do." - Aileen Wuornos, serial killer

I'm sitting in my office.

I do this most of the time. I am not always working. I am often reading the news or spying on facebook friends. I have become a cnn.com expert. My sidetracks ( Read more... )

Here are all the things I have done instead of grade papers today:

• Practiced my banjo for an hour.
• Watched an episode of the Simpsons.
• Eaten. Lots of meals. More than usual.
• Wiped down the bathroom sink.
• Finished The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (started just yesterday - thanks, Margot!)

Jon said to me this morning:

"You're probably one of the best people on the planet. I'm pretty sure everyone would agree with me there."

Of all the professions in the world, teaching seems to be one that is the most perpetually crushing.

In the past two days I have spent about 10 hours carefully grading and giving feedback to students on their papers. I'm not a grammar pen, I actually write out paragraph responses to the papers I receive. I am an excellent grader - I give impeccable ( Read more... )

Hello. I am a teacher. If you have a question about our class, you should probably ask it. You can even ask it during class. This would likely be better than complaining in your reflection papers about how you don't know what's going on. Also, feel free to check the syllabus and assignment sheets I pass out in class. These have oodles of ( Read more... )

"We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through ( Read more... )

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"And when she buries a man, that action concerns me: all mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated; God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by ( Read more... )