Got to work this morning after driving in the dark after waking up too biologically early after going to sleep at what felt like the right time. I think I could handle Daylight Savings Time better if the shift were more gradual, say, moving the clocks ahead in 10-minute increments over the course of six [...]
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Metametadream.
I neglected to write about this one a while back:
I am at my aunt’s house for a big family dinner. I don’t know what the occasion is; there probably isn’t one. Car by car, family members show up and march into the house for the feast.
A dark red minivan, which I don’t recognize, pulls into [...]
A new heroine.
I hope this article is a hoax, but I fear it isn’t:
Two environmentally-conscious loons down in Argentina killed their two-year-old son, shot their seven-month-old daughter, and then relieved themselves of the burdens of their failed and useless lives. According to the suicide note, they were afraid of global warming–which is ironic considering their likely eternal [...]
Governmenty stuff.
(Nothing exciting, inspiring or salacious in this one, folks. Sorry.)
In recent weeks there’s been talk of using a procedure called “reconciliation” to pass health-care reform in the Senate. It’s controversial because reconciliation is not subject to a filibuster, which effectively means that it only takes 51 votes to pass a bill instead of 60. Because [...]
2010 Resolution #10.
In my “Resolutions for 2010,” #10 was “I shall make a 10th resolution before February 28th, 2010.” I now have one. It will require effort. It will require planning. It will require, as all good resolutions should (which I suppose means some of mine aren’t good resolutions), resolve. I hereby resolve that:
10. When I leave [...]
One measly point.
Happy Valentine’s Day to all! Today’s topic is decidedly non-romantic, for my own sweet patootie is out of town visiting her dying multi-billionaire parents at the Tuscan villa she bought them with her supermodeling money, next to her quantum fluctuation research lab.
Anyhow, since we’re up against Washington’s Birthday (Observed) tomorrow, various websites have various rankings [...]
The obligatory Bears connection.
I didn’t care who won, but as the final seconds ticked away, it occurred to me that the Saints are Ditka’s other team and that Sean Payton was a QB for the Bears in 1987. I even wore my Bears “C-shirt” during the game. It seems the Saints had to win. It could happen no [...]
Sponge.
Last week, whilst reminding my students that they need to study a subject every night leading up to an exam (instead of cramming in the five minute passing period before the exam begins), I told them that the human brain is like a dry, hard sponge.
You have a dry sponge in the sink. You have [...]
The broken window.
I have to credit a friend from college with pointing this out:
Here’s President Obama on the stimulus, from his 2010 State of the Union Address:
The plan that has made all of this possible, from the tax cuts to the jobs, is the Recovery Act. That’s right -– the Recovery Act, also known as the stimulus [...]
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This past Monday, I stayed after school for a meeting of the creative writing club I sponsor, except that apparently there was no meeting. One girl showed up. I told her to have a seat and we’d wait, but if no one else showed up in the next half hour, I’d have to take her [...]