"There's only Us.
      There's only This.
            Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
No other road.
      No other way.
            No day -- but today."
-- from Rent

 
Going over my applications to various teaching positions, I have just noticed something:

I began (student) teaching in the classroom in August 1985.

This 2005 fall semester is my 20th anniversary as a teacher!

. . . Wow.

Yep, I was just six years old when I started teaching twenty years ago, or did I begin in utero . . . ?
 

Because I’d rather women had equal pay with men, but until that happens, opening a door is the least I can do.

(And until men have equal domestic rights with women, I’d hope women would hold the door open for me at Family Services and Child Custody Court.)

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050808/ap_on_en_tv/obit_jennings
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Channel-flipping while getting ready for bed, I came across a Cartoon Network Adult Swim sketch involving an animated version of Darth Vader talking to an animated version of Mark Hamil/Luke Skywalker, the latter voiced by Mark Hamil himself. That Mark Hamil chose to do the dialogue in the following makes for a marvelous meta-commentary on the ( Read more... )

Advice
given
to
a friend:

Life is abrasive,

and it's not the people who are tough who survive,

it's the people who regenerate.

I have seen the sixth and final of the Star Wars movies. What follows is my personal reaction to this film, my emotional and visceral responses but also my intellectual thoughts about it. I'm a geek, and I've been a Star Wars fan since the first movie; I'm also a scholar and social scientist of many things. I'm writing from all of this ( Read more... )

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