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It's Emmy Day!
Ten People Who Should Have an Emmy
( Half of these are from Deadwood and I'll fight you if you try to argue. ) -
Today, I'm putting on my teacher hat.
This list is in honor of my mother, the Grammar Goddess.
( Seriously, General Public, stop making my head hurt. ) -
Ten Celebrities With Whom I'd Like to Split a (Metaphorical) Pitcher
Well, it's really more than ten. Because some of these people (see icon) come as part of a set.
And the pitcher is metaphorical because, despite the ongoing efforts of misreall I'm not really a beer drinker. Yet.
But if this list were about drinking cocktails, I'd have totally different celebrities.
Anyway, here goes.
( Yes, they're all male. Shut up. ) -
Happy Birthday to Me
Okay, so misrealland I have this grand plan to do a month (almost) of Top Ten lists, starting on my birthday and ending on hers.
But the other night when we were supposed to be brainstorming and making careful plans, we accidentally got drunk instead.
So this is what I am coming up with during my free period today.
Top Ten Things I Wish I Could Do
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MAY SUCKS
Thank God it's the last day. And thank God this year is fucking OVER.
They shredded my curriculum. The class that was previously a full year of British Lit is now a semester of Advanced Composition and Research (oy) followed by a semester of Brit Lit. Since we still have to do a research paper second semester, that reduces the literary content of ( Read more... ) -
It's May. You know what that means.
It's Research Paper time!
I got one paper entitled "The Pomantic Period."
I Got Another Paper In Which Every Single Word Was Capitalized.
In another one, the girl just typed out three different soliloquies from Macbeth.
And finally, I got four papers which were identical down to the last comma.
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Yesterday's post makes so much more sense today.
Just got this email this morning from a student's mother. Names changed to protect the uneducated.
( I have relatives with baby teeth who can write better than this. ) -
I'm grading today.
How do you spell "feminine?"
Femin. Femine. Fememen. Feminant. Feminent. Femmin. Femint.
So, so burned out on my job these days...
That's all.
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