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On plagiarism
No, not really about whether Claudine Gay "really" plagiarized or whether she should be booted from this/that/the other, but my experience w/ plagiarism over the years, as someone who has been plagiarized from and as a teacher.
Let's get the teacher bit sorted with first - I taught a writing class at UConn, to actuarial science majors. It was ( Read more... ) -
Fictional characters I identify with (a work in progress)
Nanny Ogg
Aunt Betsey Trotwood
Falstaff
Mary Bennett
Steven Maturin
Razumikhin (when drunk)
Feel free to add your own in comments (here or where-ever)
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Goal-oriented person
You've probably heard that sort of description, especially when it comes to the corporate world, interviews, yadda yadda.
Thing is - everybody, more or less, are goal-oriented.
It's just a matter of the nature of the goals, and how successful people are at achieving them.
Such as: what is the time horizon over which one is attempting to achieve ( Read more... ) -
Confessions of an information junkie
If I've told these stories before, I will absolutely not apologize.
I'm not the apologizing kind. Not for telling stories, at least.
I have always been an info junkie. Since I was a little kid.
Many children are like that, but kind of get it beaten out of them.... metaphorically. As in, they never get their questions answered, or they only get ( Read more... ) -
Becoming more real
Once upon a time, and I don't remember when I got the idea - I got the thought that age 50 was going to be my peak year.
I'm 49 right now.
And another time, and I do know where this thought came from - it came from reading Dante and listening to lectures on the entirety of Commedia - Inferno is that you have decided to negate self. Yes, I ( Read more... ) -
life is a struggle
and sumo is a metaphor for this...
Shishi and Takahashi, in Juryo level (2nd division of pro sumo) are grappling... Shishi is hyuuuge, as Hokuseiho, now in Makuuchi level is hyuuuge... and these huge guys supposedly should have an advantage
But mainly they can get really hurt when the guys who have technique really know how to throw them down
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Why do I have so much space in my brain?
Because I push so much out of my skull... to places like here
then I'm like - ah - I don't have to think about that now, because it's out in the world somewhere, and I can always find it again, if I have to
(I usually don't have to)
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All Botoxed Up
Last Monday (Aug 28), I got Botox all over my head, neck and shoulders... I got shots .. more shots than I had expected.
The thing is, I've long had facial pain/migraines, and they've only gotten worse, especially this summer. If you've ever read Kurt Vonnegut's short story "Harrison Bergeron", you may remember that the main point-of-view ( Read more... ) -
That time of year
It's been 13 years now, of chronic pain, though the pain has changed in nature over time, and I didn't know what it was when it first happened. That first week, I thought it was an allergic attack and then possibly trigeminal neuralgia (and for all I know it is trigeminal neuralgia ( Read more... ) -
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Have a nice Friday (or whatever day it is in your world)