On the home stretch here - just a few more weeks (and 9 short reading responses, one 8 page paper, and approximately 45 pages of fiction) and my last semester will be over. Yay!

I am reaping all of the fruits of my procrastination tonight.

It's starting to get a little difficult to avoid walking on Jesus when I go to class on campus. Now, I'm all for people expressing themselves and their faith, and the obvious corollary is that I also feel free to express myself. So, back to walking on Jesus: it seems to me that every day a large section of sidewalk is covered with an invitation to ( Read more... )

This weekend, I have to read the first act of Macbeth and write a three page response, critique two seven page manuscripts, write a short fiction exercise dealing with a failed epiphany, and compose a short 200 word response to a section of reading on Indo-European languages. I also need to find an article for Wednesday about an issue for writing ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, the Navy assigned me to a brand new ship while it was still being built. There were a few of us out in San Diego, and whoever was heading up the PRECOMM detatchment set up a flight for us to see Decatur hit the water. Alas, the winds delayed it and plane schedules meant we couldn't stay, but we did get to go to the party, among ( Read more... )

Done with classes for a whole blissful month ( Read more... )

It occurred to me today that those who were so eager to dismantle the Cold War military have not been so eager to disassemble the Cold War bureaucracy. Then maybe the elusive "peace dividend" might actually have existed.

Except that any savings would just have been pissed away in a different bureaucracy.

I've been reading a little on the cheating in Atlanta on the standardized tests ( Read more... )

It occurs to me today that perhaps Facebook exists because of the suppressed lemming inside all of us. What else could explain all of the postings formerly exiled to chain letters and silly segments of message boards?

Sometime last fall, I thought it a good idea to register for classes during the summer term. I reasoned that a shortened period might be a good time to slog through some pesky required courses, like the physical education requirement (I chose weight lifting. Nice and low-impact on the parts that do not like impact). One of the "choose from the ( Read more... )