Academics tend to have to-do lists on their blogs, where they write things like “write book” or “win a grant to go travel for 3 months” or stuff.
Now, I’m not doing anything quite so exciting, but I have been getting quite excited by my lists of things I’ve done.
So why not make a […]
So my friend’s mother has offered to be my agent which is nice, but I feel guilty. Still: I can give her more details, and she can decide that I would be buying something well below her price range. Or not. I just don’t understand why anyone would ever want to do something nice for […]
Today I finished the email I started yesterday.
I am so grateful it is Friday. There are no words.
I half-finished my email to my friend’s mother, the realtor!
That counts as an accomplishment, right?
If not: I also returned a library book that was due today.
Weirdest comment spam. There’s no link to anything, or at least no well-formed link. Just this:
wolfs are dangerous and scary stay away from them!! i would you crazy people.
Your English Skills:
Grammar: 100%
Spelling: 100%
Vocabulary: 100%
Punctuation: 80%
Does Your English Cut the Mustard?
Well, it’s only 80% if you insist on American punctuation standards: I don’t. So really I was perfect. Perfect, I say!
If you have 6 people working in a store, but only one at the cash, and there’s a line at the cash, do you think that maybe — just maybe — your staff’s priorities are off?
(NB: Written yesterday, internet at work was down.)
I am noticing I am shying away more and more from physical contact again. I am noticing, too, that I think it is because I am not someone people would want to touch (in any sense of the word, really, not just the literal) and also because I feel I am not worth touching, dirtied, […]
You can think what you like about the Vancouver 2010 Olympics logo — I happen to like it — but noticing “the remarkable resemblance it has to Pacman“?
I have plans tomorrow night. I am either going to go to the university of the streets cafe (scroll to April 27) or to what they claim is an actual Mexican place, which serves — oddly — Mexican-style tapas. I love Mexican food, and I am not so good with the postponing, plus I am […]