To the 50% of my students who stayed home today, happy Eid! (Or "end of Lamadan" as some of my other students are calling it ( Read more... )

According to a student's paper I graded tonight, "...many people regard coffee as a magic drink that makes people fresh."


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Happy thing: on Pushing Daisies, ( spoiler for the latest episode )

Everybody who is interested may have already seen this, but on the chance that any of my old Buffy peeps, or you Harry Potter folks or anyone else, has been dying for something quick, fannish, and happy to read, I think this will be just the thing. If you're not a writer, I think you can still pop your head in and offer prompts, then come back a ( Read more... )

It's been an utterly lovely day. I am deeply empty and lonely but it's not the kind of lonely that wants company, or the kind of empty that wants filling, if you know what I mean. It's the kind of day when I can look at something mundane as the cold wax at the bottom of my lava lamp and feel very emotional about the shape of the wax. It's the kind ( Read more... )