My Own Thoughts

Today I found out that two (at least) of my references have been called for a job at SN. I am thrilled. I really like the school and I enjoyed teaching there. I don’t know if they will really call and do a phone interview, though they did tell CM that they were planning to. [...]

I’m a big Suzanne Brockmann fan. I read the book where Izzy’s wife Eden (who was given a date rape drug) had a baby and the baby wasn’t black, so Izzy no longer believes her. He still loves her but he doesn’t believe her. I had heard that all babies come out about the same [...]

I resigned from English, because I don’t think I can do six classes a semester anymore. Originally they offered me a VAP with adjunct pay and benefits. They told me I would only have one prep, so I could teach for business, too. That would have given me more money. Now, though, I have at [...]

Discovery Archaeology says: A treasure trove of ancient weapons has emerged from melting ice patches in the Canadian Arctic, revealing hunting strategies thousands of years old. The weapons, which include a 2,400-year-old spear throwing tools, a 1000-year-old ground squirrel snare, and bows and arrows dating back 850 years, have been found high in the remote [...]

Quoting Thucydides, “A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors has its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.” Right on the Left Coast offers a pungent comment on the “softening” of the Ivy Leagues toward the military.

from Happy Catholic Just a tease: What do you call a knight who has won an award? Sir Tificate. What do you call a knight who always gives up too quickly? Sir Render.

Telegraph UK has “10 Reasons Why Barack Obama is the Most Naive President in US History. I didn’t say it. I just showed you it was there.

I’m having nightmares about the interview process. At least I think that is the problem. I dreamed I was at a presentation and there was going to be a great publisher publication of a book on X (moccasins?) and they were inviting anyone in the society to write a chapter. I thought it would be [...]

Black walnuts taste nasty, just in case you wanted to know. And they are expensive. But supposedly, they can make night shade allergies disappear. And after two days of pain in my knee for having eaten tomatoes (no other trauma I can think of), I ate a handful (1/3 cup) of black walnuts. We shall [...]

I have been working for three or so hours each over the last two days to create audio and a video of a poem I wrote for National Poetry Month. TYCA is having a contest, which was supposed to be finished. But they did not get sufficient entries, so they solicited more. I hope that [...]

If you read that with a really whiny pitch, you were absolutely correct. I don’t want to grade. I have 40 papers sitting next to me that I have had for 9 days. (OH MY! I didn’t know it had been that long.) I have graded… 2. I guess I should quit whining and start [...]

“In a private fee-for-service medical system, a dead patient is a revenue loss. In the National Health Service (UK), a dead patient was a cost savings.” -Harry Bailey MD 1930-2003, Sheffield (England) University Medical School 1950-1956; Harvard Medical School 1958-1981, US Navy Medical Corps 1982-1991. The above quote is from my late father. from Take [...]

I don’t know how it sounded or what the writing says, but it is gorgeous. Discovery News has an article on the Ancient Scottish language. The highly stylized rock engravings, found on what are known as the Pictish Stones, had once been thought to be rock art or tied to heraldry. The new study, published [...]