On Wednesday I learned that nobody bothers to make anything between "ugly, 100% polyester" and "fine European 95% wool crepe blend."  My pants are made of awesome and the dent in my checking account was so worth it.  I feel equipped to dazzle in an interview ( Read more... )

I have done it.  I have taken useless pieces of culture and sub-culture and made something.....new.  Something....alive!

Students making LOLcats, or, en español, "gatorisas,"  is language development!

Present progressive?    Estoy en tu casa, comiendo tu pizza.
Reflexive?  El gato de la higiene se cepilla los dientes.

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I had a techno-thought, and I'm proud of myself because usually I'm just consuming tech rather than developing. Of course it's food-centered ( Read more... )

I/Bion (sometimes we were separate people, sometimes we were one person) were searching through time for our True Love.  We visited many times and locales, and couldn't find her.  Then I realized that she was probably that girl we shot back in 1770's Philadelphia--the one attacking Ben Franklin.  So we went back there a second time and cleared up ( Read more... )

I'm about to hit a career milestone, and I'm still in training.   Today I'm going to go and buy some whiteboards for my Spanish class, i.e., spend my own money on classroom materials ( Read more... )

Sí se puede.

¡Sí lo hicimos!

Yes we can.

Yes we did!

Giraffes: Sub-Woofers of the Serengeti

I am a nice person.  I put up with a teenager calling me "Ross-lover" for almost a week before I had his ass suspended.  But I did go to the dean, which means that while I am a nice person, I do have my limits.  Biatch.

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A while back I went to Phoriday and was seated next to a friend of a friend, whose name I now forget.  He noticed me flipping through my Weight Watchers reference book and asked me a number of mildly invasive questions.  One of them was,

"Why are you on Weight Watchers?"  which was, I could tell, a leading question designed to give him an opening to ( Read more... )

Male socialization:

Checklist 1: Your mate needs you to be:

• Strong
• Dependable
• Financially secure
• “Supportive”-here defined as "generally agree with and provide warm’n’fuzzies for mate" (socialization is unclear on how)

 Do you meet these requirements?  (Note: no input from mate is actually needed here.)

Yes?  Good ( Read more... )