Hm. I think I /did/ break my tailbone.

Oh, my coccyx!

Things I've done today

• Graded a fistful of annotated bibliographies.  They are bloody awful, even after I listed the mistakes they all most likely made on the board, and gave them an opportunity to fix 'em in pen.  Many of the problems are not their fault: they have never been expected to be critical and write well.  Which is a pity.
• Boxed ( Read more... )

Librivox.org is a public domain audiobook site / project.  Volunteers record themselves reading a variety of (mostly better known / classic) works into mp3 format, so you can download books into your mp3 player and listen.

The quality is dramatically uneven. Some accents make me want to beat someone with a hammer, and the poetry inflection may be ( Read more... )

 So, over the weekend, I fell down a flight of stairs.

My shoes (slightly treadbare) met the edge of the stairs (metal, unusually wet, slightly muddy) at an insufficient angle, and the laws of physics, which man breaks at his peril, applied in a way that would have been, from some distance away, quite humorous.

There are many ways to fall. I'd like ( Read more... )

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Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments (Sonnet 55 ( Read more... )

Herein, I post for my own future reading:



1811 DICTIONARY OF THE VULGAR TONGUE: A dictionary of buckish slang, university wit, and pickpocket eloquence.


I am bound and determined to make use of this vocabulary. Here's a few examples, including some quite picturesque ones: ADMIRAL OF THE NARROW SEAS. One who from drunkenness ( Read more... )

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So I've decided that I should probably make a few posters for my new courses at my new school, as a way to draw the enthusiastic and crowd out those who are not really interested.

I'm thinking some sort of montage.  You know, the shading-into-black images of a few writers, with a mock movie headline and a list of thrills and chills.

It is a class ( Read more... )