Tom is Away

winter weather advisory in effect. quite a bit of snow expected tonight.

reading for class tomorrow.

"When you participate in sporting events, it’s not whether you win or lose that matters, but how drunk you get." — Homer Simpson

brainstorming for a nice way to tell someone I don’t want to write them a recommendation letter because I don’t think they belong in grad school.

stephen colbert needs to stop constantly interrupting the people he’s interviewing.

lowering safety standards on airplanes? Sounds like a winner to me.

no, it doesn’t.

got my first packet of workshop application stories to read… turns out, this job’s gonna suck.

playing out the string.

# 1 on my christmas list

feeling mroe or less like crap.

asleep.

nothing beats drunkenly comforting a drunken australian named Anton who just broke off his engagement because of "deceit," in his words.

Well, maybe something does, but still, that was interesting.

in case you’re wondering, I did, in fact, wear 4 layers tonight, and I am, in fact, still freakin’ freezing to death.

braving the cold as I walk to workshop.

Then going to a reading… back around 8.

i’m being observed while teaching on thursday, so maybe it’s best that I start preparing today, instead of thursday morning.

trying to figure out why my workshop teach from last semester just called me.

boring old workshop stories…

Come on… you’re not even trying to hide the innuendo anymore.

motivating myself to get through the last 2 weeks of the semester.

hey it snowed.
again.