When someone makes it clear that they do not approve of me, I wilt inside. When somebody honks at me, I feel guilty and ashamed. When a parent of a student makes it clear that their child doesn’t like me, I feel like I have completely failed and may spend long [...]
Of course I think the movies are fantastic. But I do have a couple of observations, things I didn’t notice so much at first, but that really stood out to me upon subsequent viewings.
1) There is a consistant pattern of exaggeration (unfortunately common in such movies) which is unnecessary given the [...]
This morning we watched a hawk eat a wren. First she plucked it, anchoring it to the branch with her talons while she worked at it with her beak. Later we saw her tearing off long chunks of red flesh and gulping them down. When she was done she sat [...]
While gazing longingly at the French I course offered in the HCC catalogue, my eye was caught by another ad announcing the National Half Marathon. Normally I pride myself on being unmoved by advertising, but last night I mapped out a training schedule. I just might sign up.
The goal would be to run [...]
It’s less politically correct now, so I use it less, but I used to regularly inform my students that my classroom was a dictatorship and not a democracy.
With that sort of attitude, how could some poor intern hope to get teaching opportunities from me? Of course we planned some, but other than that [...]
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