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What is the entire line? Google is no help. Maybe one of you (....Antigone?) is familiar with his books of aphorisms? |
hey i was wondering on the subway why you arent teaching. Why aren't you putting that big ole head of yours to the greater good. |
My dad keeps a list of the super-retarded things his students write in their papers. One student wrote a paper on the knights of shivery. It was a big, maybe 10-page, paper, too -- how the hell the kid could have pulled 10 pages out of his ass when he couldn't even spell the freaking word right in order to look it up in the dictionary, let alone do some, like, research (even if he plagiarized!) is beyond me. Complete and utter fuckwits. Then, all the politics and cattiness and bureaucracy he has to go through is unbearable. My dad absolutely will not play games, and it took him nearly 20 years to be made a full professor. On the other hand, he won the "professor of the year" prize the first year the prize was offered, because his students love him so much. (He would never call them fuckwits, for starters.) No, sir, you can have it. |
you deal with this now, no? pretty soon the fuckwits will be teaching the fuckwits. help me OB1, your're my only hope |
Then I was picked for a pilot program that allowed us to work part time in our chosen fields. That cured me. After about a month I wanted to kill all the kids in the classes I worked with. And, talk about dumb. They were given an open book test and some of them couldn't even find the answers when the questions were written with the same wording used in the books right in front of them! |
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I'd like to study History, too, but I really don't want to teach it. I would love love love to just do research without having to teach. They gave out the MacArthur grants today, I think (I heard it on NPR this morning, anyway) -- $500,00 over four years to 25 people, just so they can continue doing the art/research/projects/humanitarian work/etc without having to worry about money. I want some billionaire to pay me to create a library for him, with the content of the library being left entirely up to me. Collection Development with my own interests in mind. |
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"We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting." I may have copied the quotation in one of my notebooks when I lived at home. When I see my father this weekend, I'll look for it. |
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i mean, sometimes he might think "man, was i ever drunk when i wrote that. how funny." |
I like finding out which of their own works authors like. Same with musicians. And the ones they really hate. It's quite a feeling when you discover that your favorite song by a particular artist, one that brings you an immense amount of pleasure, is the one they really regret ever putting on an album. |
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I like the sound and look of the word severance. |
"The dewy, crepuscular and vespertine evening was perfect for Johnny Carson to air out his tired, sweaty nutsack. A soft breeze blew over his nutsack, the little hairs on it obeying the direction of the wind." |
I had to look them both up. Great words. |
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It should have been Hierarchies. Phonics was a great way to learn to read. But, it killed my spelling ability. |
That means Congratulations! in Welsh. I just went to a Welsh kids' site and sent a friend a postcard. When I was finished, the word Llongyfarchiadau! appeared. Here (BTW, "eich enw" means "your name," so you know how to fill out the fields.) |
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I think it's cute that they spell hello with one L. Helo! Awwwww. |
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double -l in welsh is pronounced somthing like if you were trying to say 't" but with your mouth in the position to say "L". |
Some people seek pleasure in pain, and some cannot cleanse themselves except with filth. |