Tom is Away

watching "The Constant Gardener"

so, um, am i to believe (based on this report on ABC) that people are shocked that George Washington had slaves?

at niece’s 1st birthday party. i hope there’s at least two clowns.

"get over here, you stupid fat retard!" — some girl on Wendover St. to her friend.

figuring out who wants to buy my essay.

reading.

my eyes hurt.

waiting for rejection letters.

revision bell

trying to figure out when the hell season 4 of The Wire comes out on DVD

Max Wright (aka the dad from "Alf," as if you didn’t know that already) caught in a crackhouse? How did I never know this? And how does this compare to Bob Crane (aka Hogan from "Hogan’s Heroes") and his bizarre career as an amateur pornographer?

sportfiction.com updated.

i’m upstairs working on other stuff.

so much for that plan of getting up at 6 and working all morning.

well, at least i’m awake before noon.

Trying to find out if I know the Roxborough people arrested in the big meth bust

firing up some steak for dinner.

walking the dogs

"And I am tough on my mom but I know for fact I never told nobody my mom smoked crack because that would be a lie on my behalf. She never told me and I never caught her.” — MLB player Elijah Dukes

apparently, bobby clarke is really short.
and he likes half-price wings

second semester in a row where my evaluations at Temple praised me for "keeping it real." Also, the strength of my course, according to a student, was, "I didn’t fall asleep."

checking out my spring teaching evaluations.