This says it all.

I'm pretty sure that becoming a tenured professor requires one to completely flunk a handwriting exam. LEGIBILITY, PEOPLE! It's not hard!

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Make that high school biology. I will be teaching high school biology next year. *wipes brow* Whew!

For nature, heartless, witless nature,
will neither care nor know
What stranger's feet may find the meadow
And trespass there and go,
Nor ask amid the dews of morning
If they are mine or no.

A.E. Housman, Last Poems

I'm getting that end-of-the-race calm, a sort of Zen fatalism, and it makes me very happy to think that in a few days I will be hiking around ( Read more... )

You know those people who are always talking about how lame everything is?  Nothing is good enough for them, and if something's popular they're especially vehement in their assertion of its lameness.  These are the type of people who claim to not like the Beatles.
Grow some balls and get behind something.  Seriously. 

On a purely personal, non-election-related note about the future:

It is official. I will be teaching middle or high school chemistry in the greater New Orleans area for the next two years under the auspices of Teach for America.  Real job, real salary, benefits.  Weird.

Weirder: the fact that someone thinks that I'm qualified to teach chemistry.  I'm ( Read more... )

“Georgia ranks 44th in the nation in voter turnout. We can do better.”
League of Women Voters of Georgia

Alright, I know I’m sawing on an extremely antiquated violin here, but SERIOUSLY, folks: go vote.

You think you’re stuck in a big old sad fucking red state? MOST OF THE STATE DOESN’T EVEN VOTE. If you care at all about the state of affairs, get ( Read more... )

11:30- Hungry.  Shuffle into kitchen, not expecting much ( Read more... )

Holy moly ( Read more... )