For all the Kentwood kids who haven't yet heard: East Kentwood won the state APT championship this year!  Yay!

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You know what sucks?  I'll tell you: people who respond to multi-part e-mails with half-responses to only one of the questions asked therein.  You know what else sucks, in a related way?  Group projects.   

Are any of you Ann Arbor-residing Grand Rapidians going home for the weekend and willing to give this gal a ride?

Dear Frat Boy (Undoubtedly) in the Study Carrel Near Me Whose Voice Whose Volume You Did Not Even Try To Suppress When You Picked Up Your Cell Phone And Had a Three-Minute Conversation Sounds Exactly Like I Expected It Would (Gravelly and Stupid ( Read more... )

no one wants my football ticket (for the minnesota game, tomorrow)! waah waah waah. do YOU want my football ticket?

So, my birthday is coming up, and I thought I would make things easier for everyone involved by suggesting a gift. Perhaps y'all can pool your resources together (maybe the honors program would even kick in some Wagner bursary money!) and buy me the following ( Read more... )

I'm looking for some good short stories or essays to read with high school students.  They should be exciting and full of drama, and not so full of American cultural references (as these are foreign students for whom English is a second - or third, or fourth - language).  Any suggestions?  (I'm trying to avoid the high school short story canon.) ( Read more... )

I'm so lucky and so grateful.  Don't let me forget that during the next five weeks.

Title of a book in the trashy novel section of the UGLI:

A Hard Man is Good to Find