I was just struck speechless. Now I've gotten over it and I've been yelling out variations of "For the love of Fucking Christ" for the past few minutes now ( Read more... )

I know we've been over this and over this, but I want to fully realize for you the ludicrousness of the paper Little Plagiarist Pants #2 turned in to me. And why I shake my head in disbelief that she's calling me and weeping now. Especially ironic phrases in the paper have been bolded. (All mistakes are hers unless I made a typo. But, really, all ( Read more... )

Having only five hours of sleep and dealing with naughty kids all morning is definitely not the best frame of mind within which to find out I may not be paid this week ( Read more... )

Instead of immediately failing my two seniors who plagiarized their prose essays, I allowed my boss to talk me into giving them a punishment assignment instead. They were to write an eight-page paper that fulfilled the following requirements ( Read more... )

I had two new reviews published in the latest edition of Green Man Review. If you're interested in reading fairy tales and folktales, check out my thoughts on these two collections:

Tales of the Golden Corpse: Tibetan Folk Tales, as retold by Sandra Benson. (This review won an Excellence in Writing Award. Nice.)
Hildur, Queen of the Elves and ( Read more... )