December 2009
31 posts
I'm really sad today
scitchet:
For so many reasons.
1) It was a crap semester, and now that it is officially done, I’ve got lost of emotion leaking out.
2) It was a crap semester for the people around me too. And that just sucks.
3) It has been crappy for my family since the beginning of summer (when my grandmother, the matriarch got sick), and now they are facing the first Christmas without Popcorn. Not to...
Pretentious, obsessed bacon-eaters are the new...
davereed:
- gillianmae
Haha, it’s kind of true…
PS
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So, in theory, I was going to grade the finals from yesterday during the final this morning. Guess what I’m doing in stead? Reading Tumblr. That is right mother bitches! (that was for MSG, I’ve missed her mother bitches)
Guess what I’m doing during my last final? this.
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The first final I grade is a student who is repeating the course. They worked hard this semester. They failed epically. Because they apparently forgot how to do arithmetic, not to mention algebra. I don’t want to grade any more.
Intersession for them?
“the thing about works like this is, you really have to be standing in front of...”
– not-en*tire,ly tum+bling (via peterwknox)
“Jesus Leonardo has spent the last ten years hanging around off-track betting...”
– Finding Treasure In Trash - Horseracing - Deadspin (via peterwknox)
“Can we say that it is precisely the smallest objects—be they trumpets,...”
– Herta Müller - Nobel Lecture
The whole acceptance speech is incredible.
(via peterwknox)
“They listen politely, but in the end, of course, basically the policy decision...”
– Rory Stewart, a British professor of human rights at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and an expert on Afghanistan, describing the experience of “being consulted” on the war by President Obama’s staff. (Via Jan Adams.)
Why is Obama plunging us deeper into an unwinnable war? He’s...