This just in: eating leftover party cake and watching Battlestar Galactica episodes on-line == best Monday at cruddy job EVAR ( Read more... )

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't to forget make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Well said, Neil.

If you want to indentify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.
Thomas Merton

I can't be the only one who thought "Trogdor!" when they saw today's Word of the Day: bombinate.

Words are fun. <3 ( Read more... )

Yep yep yep yepyepyepyepyepyep...

Sage advice from the world's last ninja: Always be able to kill your students.

I know it's the teaching philosophy I live by. *sagenod*

This is the week of smart skirts and heels. I have not one, not two, but four public spectacles to participate in this week--2 presentations, one ceramony/banquet, and one honoring reception. It is craziness that makes my inner grumbly hermit go blah but makes my inner twirly girly-girl go squee for the abundance of dress up opportunities ( Read more... )

Well I'm thwarted by a metaphysic puzzle
And I'm sick of grading papers - that I know
And I'm shouting in my sleep, I need a muzzle
All this misery pays no salary so...

We'll open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
Oh sunny Santa Fe would be nice
We'll open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
And leave this to the roaches and mice...

Who's game? =)

(chatting ( Read more... )

Dear god. This is too good not to pass on.

Harry Potter meets...La Vie Boheme.

Wait until the song picks up. I don't know if it tops Veggie Tales/RENT or not, but... =)

Watching the news on CNN is an experience in madness. While reporting on the latest study about goth teenagers, they show a clip of what has to be a preppy rave from the eighties. "Goths are known for wearing all-black or dark clothing," the narrator solemnly intones. Pictures of puffy haired raver kids in pastel shirts and neon tights. "Teenagers ( Read more... )