All booktrucks on deck

More than the end of the quarter, it’s the end of exams. I worked the last late-late shift tonight, and the room was almost empty; about 10 when we closed at 2am, and last night it was more like 30. When I went to punch out I found myself passing through a room flooded with [...]

Now listening to

You’ll sit alone forever if you wait for the right time
What are you hoping for?
I’m here, I’m now, I’m ready
I’ve started packing with the easiest stuff, the clothes. I seem to have acquired a lot of shoes since I moved in. And every time I look over at the mass of papers that used to [...]

Aw maaaaaan

An email I just got from the department secretary, in its entirety:
Good afternoon, Seniors
This is just a reminder that there will be wine served at the end-of-the-year reception (see notice emailed on May 31) and that you will be carded.
The caterer’s bartenders have the right to refuse service if proper ID [...]

“Indignance” is not a word, apparently.

Do you want to know how long the spell check and I wrestled over this one today, before at long last I realized that the noun form of indignant is indignation?
No, you do not. Trust me.
Apparently it’s Spencer and myself against the world on this one. I still don’t quite believe it, partly because I [...]

Context is everything

On Tuesday, I had to go see a professor to discuss my final paper topic. Waiting in the hall, I could hear that the person ahead of me in the office was handing over a first draft. When I was told to go back to the drawing board and develop a different (better) topic, my [...]

They all think I’m smart until the end of the quarter

Alas, alas, woe is me, etc. Once again my utter inability to come up with a decent final paper topic on my own rears its incompetent head. I like to think I’m not a moron, but my total suckitude at this very basic element of academic life makes that pretense hard to uphold.

I am an amazing student

I’ve been fiddling around all day, moping about my sinuses and avoiding writing the short summary that was assigned by one of my professors last week. It took several hours sitting here on the bed with my laptop, but I flipped over to Word just now, determined to write something and get it over with. [...]

It’s been like this all week.

I’ve been a little… preoccupied… this week, for various reasons.
Apparently I still am, because I can’t think of anything to say.
Hopefully things will improve soon.

Your soul won’t fit on a syllabus

From a New York Times article on religion and college students:
“My theory is that the baby boomers decided they weren’t going to impose their religious life on their children the way their parents imposed it on them,” Mr. Steffen continued. “The idea was to let them come to it themselves. And then they get to [...]

“No! No! One at a time!”

I just got an email from MonsterTrak which contained this image:

My first thought was “Gaah!” This is kind of an obnoxious and startling photo to find on opening an email.
My second thought was, “That looks oddly like Professor X.” Only he doesn’t usually stare up into space in such a stricken fashion.
Well, except for when [...]