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Well, let me just say that it officially sucks to be without internet access. Oh, how I hope that my connection will soon be restored! I have so many posts to catch up with! Quick thoughts about a couple of recent (-ish) posts:
Rambler, Baja is a coastal state in Mexico where fish figures prominently in the cuisine. In other words, fish tacos have a very long and traditional role in Mexican food, and thus, they rock. Or, to copy the playful wording of Roxana, “thusly,” they rock.
Elizawharton, have you decided what to do with your financial situation? Can you do Kaplan or Princeton Review test prep teaching? I know several people out here who’ve become test prep trainers, and while their initial time outlay is a bit heavy (I think that the training takes one week of nighttimes or something), they fall pretty quickly into a rhythm.
Meanwhile, I wish you all a very happy new year, and have a small offering of happiness for you all. When cleaning my files, I found what I will call “Bumblebee-isms,” or my collection of fantastically decontextualized and highly valuable utterances from the classes that I took with my favorite professor. Many of you Texas types have already seen these, but I thought that those of you unfamiliar with Professor Bumblebee would enjoy a peek into his edifying mind. So, enjoy!
“Generally, generalization is an undervalued skill.”
“It’s terrible when you’re sucking your pants in public.”
“Please don’t think that the Romantics ever thought of anything themselves.”
“… Sgt. Pepper, you’ll be surprised to learn, is not one of the ten most important albums of all time - which, if I had more time, I would prove …”
“That’s all there is in the “Wife of Bath”/Moll Flanders club mix.”
“I just couldn’t swallow the book - I’m speaking figuratively, of course.”
“To me, the fact that someone who’s wearing a wedge of cheese on his head has the same rights as you and I registers as crisis. No on in my family wore cheese on their head.”
“If you’re studying early literature, you should use the Chicago [style manual]. If you’re studying modern lit you should use the MLA. If you’re specializing in creative writing, remember to punctuate.”
“If it’s got a singing goat, it’s tragedy.”
“Farquhar is clearly the most fun name to say of all the playwrights this semester … but I had a much less substantial point to make …”
And because I hate to feel left out, here's what I found about my LoTR self:
You scored as Arwen of Rivendell.
Frodo Baggins
87%
Arwen of Rivendell
87%
Legolas
77%
Peregrin Took (Pippin)
73%
Meriadoc Brandybuck (Merry)
67%
Gandalf the Grey
67%
Samwise Gamgee
63%
Aragorn
63%
Eowyn of Rohan
60%
Boromir
60%
Galadriel
53%
Saruman the White
47%
Gimli
44%
Gollum
23%
Which Lord of the Rings character are you most like?
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Rambler, Baja is a coastal state in Mexico where fish figures prominently in the cuisine. In other words, fish tacos have a very long and traditional role in Mexican food, and thus, they rock. Or, to copy the playful wording of Roxana, “thusly,” they rock.
Elizawharton, have you decided what to do with your financial situation? Can you do Kaplan or Princeton Review test prep teaching? I know several people out here who’ve become test prep trainers, and while their initial time outlay is a bit heavy (I think that the training takes one week of nighttimes or something), they fall pretty quickly into a rhythm.
Meanwhile, I wish you all a very happy new year, and have a small offering of happiness for you all. When cleaning my files, I found what I will call “Bumblebee-isms,” or my collection of fantastically decontextualized and highly valuable utterances from the classes that I took with my favorite professor. Many of you Texas types have already seen these, but I thought that those of you unfamiliar with Professor Bumblebee would enjoy a peek into his edifying mind. So, enjoy!
“Generally, generalization is an undervalued skill.”
“It’s terrible when you’re sucking your pants in public.”
“Please don’t think that the Romantics ever thought of anything themselves.”
“… Sgt. Pepper, you’ll be surprised to learn, is not one of the ten most important albums of all time - which, if I had more time, I would prove …”
“That’s all there is in the “Wife of Bath”/Moll Flanders club mix.”
“I just couldn’t swallow the book - I’m speaking figuratively, of course.”
“To me, the fact that someone who’s wearing a wedge of cheese on his head has the same rights as you and I registers as crisis. No on in my family wore cheese on their head.”
“If you’re studying early literature, you should use the Chicago [style manual]. If you’re studying modern lit you should use the MLA. If you’re specializing in creative writing, remember to punctuate.”
“If it’s got a singing goat, it’s tragedy.”
“Farquhar is clearly the most fun name to say of all the playwrights this semester … but I had a much less substantial point to make …”
And because I hate to feel left out, here's what I found about my LoTR self:
You scored as Arwen of Rivendell.
Frodo Baggins
87%
Arwen of Rivendell
87%
Legolas
77%
Peregrin Took (Pippin)
73%
Meriadoc Brandybuck (Merry)
67%
Gandalf the Grey
67%
Samwise Gamgee
63%
Aragorn
63%
Eowyn of Rohan
60%
Boromir
60%
Galadriel
53%
Saruman the White
47%
Gimli
44%
Gollum
23%
Which Lord of the Rings character are you most like?
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