Apparently, you can purchase a Camouflage Bible. With further horrified reading, I discovered one in pink camo with embroidered butterflies, flowers and a cross.

The mind boggles. Truly, it does!

What, pray tell, is the pedagogical value of cupcakes in the study of space? This morning, before school, I finished frosting two dozen cupcakes I'd baked last night because eldest was unsure as to whether the due date for these Mars-themed baked goods was today or Thursday.

*sigh*

And it's now warmed up from -29 to -24. Woohoo!

( professor talk )

Logged back into LJ after a while and what do I find but that bloody stupid nav bar on top of my journal! Gar! I know that I never authorized adding that in. Apparently they're doing their best to foist it on us, though ( Read more... )

My dad had a dam dedicated in his name today. He is well loved in his community. But -- a dam! A dam? (Well, he was involved in planning this to stabilize the environment on the mountain where he lives and getting the clearances done and all that, but -- a dam? A dam ( Read more... )

just buried in marking and snow. (Not as much as southern Ontario, of course, ozreison and artistatlargeI have now marked over 2800 pages of student work so far this term and there are over 100 essays to go before I tackle the final examinations. Gah! Gah! Is it wrong that a part of me wants to atavistically mark down everyone who's mispelled my name on the cover sheet ( Read more... )

Why, when it's the commonwealth, of course. To which we devoted much of a lecture, but neveryoumind, you precious little students who prattle endlessly about how this writer was obsessed with money.

After reading some of these papers, I swear that I check to make sure my brains haven't melted and poured out my ears. . . .

I'm making a vid. A BSG vid. A Baltar vid. To a Bangles song!

It'll probably be crap, but I'm having fun learning how to use Windows Movie Maker and playing with the doctor's mind.

Now if only I can come up with some decent clips from the mini for the first verse. . . . .

Posted a bit more detail on my blog, but thought I'd vent here -- credit card fraud is bad enough. But knowing that you've got many likely cases of credit card fraud coming and yet you do nothing about it is just appalling ( Read more... )

You know what I hate about "grad student" Wednesdays? Not the grad student class (even though I feel so sorry for the fellow who's taking this class for one/directed reading course. No, it's the being jumped upon by everyone else who thinks this is the only day I'm in the office (where the heck are those people on Mondays, Tuesday, Thursdays and ( Read more... )

Yahoo news reportshree mice infected with the bacteria responsible for bubonic plague apparently disappeared from a laboratory about two weeks ago, and authorities launched a search though health experts said there was scant public risk ( Read more... )