So here I am, fulfilling my promise to myself that I'd write here every day. Nothing terribly exciting to report, really. Classes were pretty normal, with the exception of the fact that I more or less inadvertently made one of my students cry. Now granted, I had help, but still, I felt bad about it for a few minutes. See, she had called me ( Read more... )

Is this what insomnia feels like? I really don't know. I don't think so, though. For whatever reason, though, my body clock seems to be almost entirely reversed. I have a hell of a time waking up in the mornings (with "morning" defined as generally between eleven and one), and I simply cannot seem to go to sleep at night. I mean, really, here ( Read more... )

Okay, seriously. Obviously this is only copy for a TV program, but still ( Read more... )

Finally, I can take a breath! I've had my first two days of class, which means that I've had the first session for all of the classes that I'll be teaching this term. I work at a really awesome branch of ChungDahm Institute, and don't have any classes tomorrow, which means I have a little bit of time to breathe and prepare a little bit more ( Read more... )

So I'm reading through the archives of xkcd instead of being productive and preparing my shit to go to Korea, and I found this one:

http://xkcd.com/137/

Word, son. That is all.

So, yeah. I was in the grocery store this morning, buying a gloriously huge sandwich to last me for the next day or two. What do you think I should find on my way to the Deli counter ( Read more... )

I hate this day. I loathe it with the fiery passion of a thousand thousand furiously burning suns. There are no words which can adequately describe my contempt ( Read more... )

 You know what really irritates me?  Even more than people spelling "their," "they're," and "there" interchangeably, I get irritated when people use COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WORDS interchangeably in everyday speech ( Read more... )