I am restless and I blame it on the amount of work I have to do and the sudden burst of spring weather. Basically, I want to do anything but what I have to do for the next couple of weeks ( Read more... )

I decided I was in the mood for some fries today. Went to your average fast food drive-thru joint and witnessed someone acting really idiotic. A man in his F-1000 Diesel Ford orders a couple bags of hamburgers and pulls away only to come flying back around. He walks to the window and starts pounding on the glass because they forgot to give him ( Read more... )

Michigan is in that funky stage of the year. Is it still winter or are we moving on to spring? It was sunny and in the forties today. But tonight? Sleet and snow ( Read more... )

They are installing new main doors to one building on campus. That requires that the flow of students enter only through these three side doors. The problem stems from these assholes who want to smoke right by the side doors. A lot of room has been created where the main doors used to be -- use it! I'm sick and tired of having to walk through ( Read more... )

Not to be overly personal here but I have pre-cramps. Most of the time the whole menstrual event is not that terrible. I just find the unpredictability to be worse than anything. I know I'm usually every 35 days but, of course, it changes with my level of stress and sleeping schedule. So, my major complaint here is that this isn't going to go ( Read more... )

We rent a two bedroom apartment within a historic Victorian home. There's a total of four apartments: two downstairs and two upstairs. All of this is irrelevant but I felt like sharing. Anyway, we came home from the coffee house this afternoon and found a note pinned onto our door. It was addressed to another neighbor -- one we concluded must ( Read more... )

I can still smell it. The smell gave me a headache. I think it even gave me a stomachache. It all happened during my afternoon class when I picked another terrible seat. I sat next to Garlic Boy.

Garlic Boy had more than a slight garlic scent. It smelled like he had bathed himself in garlic. Even that was tolerable until the burping ( Read more... )

"In this uproarious novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak. Russo's protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the relcutant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. Devereaux's reluctance is partly rooted in his character -- he is a ( Read more... )

Today was quite a day. Work was absolutely fucked up because of a decision made by the faculty members. My main issue with their decision, which involved the way classes were held this week, was that it made us look unprepared and unorganized. A student actually asked me, "Have you done this before?" I feel bad because we were not as helpful as ( Read more... )

My work is unorganized and lazy. They had our students read a legal document and answer ten questions. Since they failed to give us an answer sheet, SAHM has been reading the document and searching for the right answer. There's nothing like reading legal writing that goes a little like: "6. Use which is incidental to otherwise acceptable uses, ( Read more... )