it's really weird to start packing without my folks here - they both know what they're doing, or at least their casual demeanor convinces me that they do. they also were mostly helping me pack books, but today was the first time that i've started packing up my own music instruments/effects/etc. scary stuff, since i don't want anything to get ( Read more... )

So the parents are flying back to our nation's dangly bit tomorrow around noon, and I'll be quite sad to see them off. Having students to teach, grade, obsess over, regret obsessing over, etc. certainly took too much time away from my folks, but these last few days were really nice. Since they stayed here on the comfy couch still up for grabs, we ( Read more... )

ugh, i'm sleepy after writing a rather lengthy and detailed email to a student about why there's no way that he deserved above a "C" in my class, regardless of the fact that he needed a "B" to pass since he'd previously gotten a "D-". i could go into details, but i think that "ugh!" is about all it really needs ( Read more... )

Thanks ever so much to punky_bayouster for making my afternoon better while grading. That's right, she told me about the Animaniacs DVD set coming out on Tuesday!After a few moments where I felt a bit faint, my glee moved from overwhelming and unadulterated to a more manageable level of bouncy giddiness, and after I got off the phone with her the aforementioned ( Read more... )

Even though my brother's the one in journalism school, I must say that I'm also thrilled when I get the scoop on something first. This is especially true when I know about things in LA before people in LA catch on to them. So please allow me to gloat about this post to the LAist blog ( Read more... )

(Panama City is in the Florida Panhandle, in case that subject line doesn't make sense to you immediately)

The last couple of days were spent with punky_bayouster's stellar family, mostly just talking, watching Simpsons, looking at photos, eating, and playing "Chickenfoot" with dominoes. Overall, Red Stick was pretty nice, and I took as many photos as my camera ( Read more... )