Tom is Away

writing a letter of recommendation, then sleeping.

finishing up thanksgiving leftovers.

christmas-ing up.

out doing stuff.
i know, i’m boring today.

I am away from my computer right now.

don’t feel like doin nothin.

asleep.

feeling good after reading the nicest student email i’ve ever gotten. apparently, i’m inspirational and informative and all kinds of good crap.

i love that i cancelled class tomorrow.
i should just cancel class every day.

not grading papers.

man, these acme brand crispy rice squares are just awful.

off to temple– half day today because i cancelled my second class.

asked by the Eagles website who would write his biography, Reggie Brown replied, "Jesus."

okay, i know i should stop doing this, but we’ll go for it one more time, and just say that the following selection is from a hypothetical student’s hypothetical paper that I’m hypothetically grading right now, because it’s too good not to share:

"My mom taught me that it is important to settle your problems on your own and I don’t think we can do much to help the Iraqis situation but hurt it. I don’t know why the US is so concerned about a civil war in Iraq. Last time I checked, Iraq is neither close to us physically and secondly who cares… Saddam should not be ready to be hung, don’t quote me because he should be hung, but he shouldn’t be hung because we should never have been there in the first place."

"You know those signs they have at amusement parks, setting a measurement for how big you have to be to go on a particular ride? There are Eagles scouts standing next to those lines, poised to sign anyone who is turned away." — Les Bowen

see ya later, Mike Bartrum.
You’re probably the least talented player to have made an impact on a good team in NFL history.

okay, now for my new, new favorite comment ever written on a student paper: "With all due respect to your mom, she doesn’t qualify as a credible source on the Iraq war."

what the bloody hell?

course evaluations filled out by lasalle students today, so now I’m free to be a huge bastard the rest of the way.

off to school