Recently, I bit the bullet and bought myself some new shirts. Nothing fancy, just a few things for teaching and a few things for, well, the other 95% of my life. What I noticed when these New Clothes arrived was nothing short of astonishing. They are all see-through. No, seriously, they’re SEE-THROUGH. As in translucent, [...]
So, uh, I’m on the job market this year and, as I’ve mentioned, the market is tight. Tighter than… well, no cliches come to mind at the moment (at least none that I can publish in good conscience on this blog), so we’ll just say that it’s tight. And all along, I’ve been worried about [...]
When I was little, I would come home from school…. wait, that’s a different story. I get lots of mileage out of it, clearly. But seriously, folks. When I was little, we didn’t have birthday cakes for our birthdays. We had birthday pies. I don’t know how the tradition started, actually, but the result is [...]