Tom is Away

watching a movie or playing video games or drinking wine or something to pass the time.

LA Times praises rich girl for riding the bus and not judging people too much. Link

doing someone a favor, although they may not realize it for a few years.

gearing up for the last week before spring break (!)

what I don’t understand is why no one has combined mini-golf and bowling yet.

Man, I wish I’d know about the Gluten Free Philly blog sooner.

goal: to have a draft of this monstrosity of a book printed out by Friday morning. Thinking I have ~40 pages left to write.

after about 7 months at the gym, I think i’m ready to upgrade to a bigger bowling ball.

Super-long review of Hulk Hogan’s autobiography posted on Barrelhouse: Link

follow up: I used to be uncomfortable with the gym guy talking to me, but now I’ve found it’s even more uncomfortable with him consciously avoiding talking to me, even when we’re side-by-side.

as it turns out, today is a great gym day, because everyone else blew it off, even the guy who talks to everyone (besides me).

this snow is probably reason enough to skip out on the gym, right? If I were 12, I’d spend all day inside eating candy and playing video games.

I can’t believe the philly schools were closed for a glorified rainstorm.

at work three hours early because I wanted to beat the serious snowfall here.

getting home, I guess, is a different story…

putting my life in jeopardy so that I can teach my students how to do research. They’d better learn the hell out of this.

i really can’t afford to have my evening class cancelled again. On the other hand, I also don’t want to drive through a “winter fury” as weather.com is calling it.

snow, I’m not kidding– I will totally punch you in the face, if only I can find the face. I’ll do it, man.

sometimes I wish students would learn the distinction between “I never got your email” and “I never checked my email.”

scouring through years worth of old emails for contact info of ext students

a strangely growing percentage of my fans are facebook are high school-aged girls. I don’t know what to make of this.