we've moved.
 

I... like... never post here anymore. Possibly, this has caused people to stop reading my blog. If you are still out there, hi. I'm still out there, also ( Read more... )

again, many good intentions of posting have been long postponed (pun most certainly intended, why do you ask?) by excessive business and stress bordering on insanity. which almost caused me to burst out crying in my office. just the once. and i just ended up blushing a lot. so it's ok. this is a grouchy post; i'm actually doing a fair amount ( Read more... )

i've officially just lived through my first week of classes as a grad student. and i had a really good productivity mojo today, and i felt like a GERMANIST. that's right, bitches ( Read more... )

i taught my first class today! so that was exciting.

...i'm in grad school. it's pretty weird, actually. i haven't processed it well enough to post about it properly.

further updates as events warrant.

i should clarify from yesterday - the way that our workshop is structured is that we get to teach practice mini-lessons to new TAs from other departments, and then we get feedback on the structure of the lesson, how we practiced certain structures or designed certain activities, etc. so i've been teaching german lessons to speakers of spanish, ( Read more... )

recent lack of posts attributed to wibbly exhausted brainz. fact ( Read more... )

1. this being the fifth day of being home while hannah's at orientation, and thus of my spending way more time on the tubes than necessary, i have come to conclusion that that the president of the united states is only the *second* most powerful human being in the whole wide world, after the new york times restaurant critic. seriously, the man ( Read more... )

i'd just like to point out that ben and jerry's, in support of gay marriage becoming legal in vermont as of this month, changed the name of their ice cream flavor "chubby hubby" to "hubby hubby". this fills me with glee ( Read more... )

so Favorite Girl has started her orientation, leaving me a bachelor for the better part of any given day this week, and let me tell you, i'm in fine form ( Read more... )