It's been an interesting day so far ( Read more... )

I've had so much conflicting news lately that I'm not sure whether I'm freezing or boiling. No way can recent events in my exciting life be contained in one post ( Read more... )

Ha!

Reading a near-flawless essay handed in by a student whose previous work was -- shall we say -- much less engaging, I smelled a rat. Googling a sentence in the opening paragraph brought me to the website which was the source of the essay, shamelessly lifted.

AND I discovered why another student made some strange claims about the central ( Read more... )

My life is a roller-coaster.

Last night, Significant Other was distracted. She had ordered a new desk for her office at work, which she could keep and bring home if/when she no longer works at a community-based org for disabled people.

She had showed me the desk in the catalogue. Very nice, I said. Go for it.

But the desk arrived at her work in ( Read more... )

My beautiful embroidered tablecloth and 6 matching napkins have come home from my office in the English Dep't after sitting in the original cellophane package in a desk drawer for at least 5 years.

Am I insane? Do I host dinner parties in my office? No (I hope) and no.

Here is how I got the Tablecloth of Shame:

Ages ago, I had a Chinese male student ( Read more... )