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Opening Day 2007
It's opening day. The one day every year when the sky is a little bluer than usual, the grass is a little greener than yesterday, and the crack of the bat and the thwap of the ball in the catcher's mitt is the most musical sound you'll ever hear. It's the day when thirty teams take the field starting with identical records, each one hoping that ( Read more... ) -
Why Being Lonely Is Sometimes Super Awesome
I love Scrubs. -
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I had a dream last night that Roger Clemens signed with the Cincinnati Reds. Weird. -
SPIRE sucks
Classes started this week. I'm taking Research Methods (looks good) and Schenkerian Analysis (also looks good). I'm teaching CS120 again, and the waitlist is a nightmare. SPIRE is the worst computer system ever designed. Really. When I was at Maryland, when someone dropped a class, the person with highest priority on the waitlist was ( Read more... ) -
AP vs IB vs TJ
There's an article in today's Washington Post about the merits of and differences between the Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate. It discusses which program is harder or more challenging, or more useful to colleges, and also mentions another up-and-comer, the Cambridge program which is taking hold in the US after starting in.... ( Read more... ) -
One year anniversary
Last Friday was my one-year anniversary....of my first lindy hop dance! I thought about that on my drive over, how it was the Apollo Jump dance (second Friday of the month) that served as my introduction to swing dancing one year ago, back on January 14, 2006. I also thought of truly how much I've improved since then, and how different I must ( Read more... ) -
I think I just broke up someone's relationship
No doubt wrong-number text messages received this evening:
10:42pm: Hi love button
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I just had a dream about a flying machine that ran on spaghetti and meatballs. It wasn't a modern airplane; for some reason, this machine was in the desert and people were using it by holding on to long ropes that dangled down from the machine. They would grab a rope and then stand on a carpet-like-thing and slide along the sand, while being ( Read more... )
