It's been a while. I've been Twittering.

I've been told from my darling wifey that her friends on the Facebook have been making a list of twenty-five things about them. I'm not really sure what the criteria for these things are. But here's my list.
1) I don't know if I believe in God. If he does exist, the most compelling evidence he's provided of ( Read more... )

I'm trying something new. See, when I update this LiveJournal, end up taking like an hour pinning down my thoughts and usually end up rambling about nothing anyways.

So I decided to start a Twitter accountI'm not sure what'll become of this. It might end up replacing this LiveJournal eventually. It might go away after a week, a month, a year, etc ( Read more... )

Here I am, as I am so often, eating goldfish beside the pug, watching Judge Milian presiding over the People's Court, procrastinating when I should be grading. I'm pathetic ( Read more... )

It's been a while. Sorry about that ( Read more... )

Meet Link.


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Well, it hasn't been the best week.

It's actually been a tough week. But I've found that small things are making my week a lot better. You know, watching Dirty Jobs with Emily, driving around with the pug, listening to Matt Pryor's new album, looking at old mansions along (haunted) Cuba Road in Barrington...

Here's another one...

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This is what ( Read more... )

I've taken the afternoon off. I don't deserve it and I probably shouldn't have. On Friday, I collected three classes-worth of Philosophy Papers and, today, two classes-worth of Literary Terms Quizzes, so I have plenty to grade. But whatever, right?

Here's some stuff that's been going on...

BIRTHDAYIt's my birthday on Thursday. Surprise! I'm ( Read more... )

I'm planning for next week, when my students will be taking a quiz about various philosophies. If you were to look at my Safari browser's recent Google searches, it would read the following...

buddhism
taoism
tao te ching
confucianism
god is dead
admiral ackbar
existentialism
camus sisyphus

I'm not exaggerating.

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Emily's gabbing it up on the phone, so I figure I'd update. I have WAY more to write about than my current time allotment allows, but she's talking to her old friend Lindsey, so maybe I'll luck out ( Read more... )

Okay everyone. So today and yesterday was "new teacher orientation" at McHenry this week. Basically, there's not much to update. These "new teacher" days are somehow both a waste of time and important, tediously discussing stuff I already know and presenting an overwhelming amount of information about stuff I need to know ( Read more... )