Y'ever see a video on YouTube, and think it's the stupidest thing you've ever seen? But then you find yourself thinking about one moment that tickled your funny bone, and pretty soon you go back and watch the video again? And again and again and again, because now it's growing on you, until finally you've memorized the whole thing ( Read more... )

I’ve been teaching a graduate-level course for three weeks now, and it’s nearly wiping me out. Whenever I get a free hour or two, I spend it comatose, in a desperate attempt to pay off the compound interest on my sleep debt. I don’t know what I’d do if my boss hadn’t kindly left me her lecture notes and old assignments ( Read more... )