My Notebook

I have a little notebook that I carry around with me. I use it when I need a piece of paper. For example, if I meet someone and they want me to do something for them and I figure that I might like to do it, I ask them for their email address and I write it down. I do this because I’ve found that people can’t spell my email address. I don’t let them write in my book because I’ve found that other people’s penmanship varies too much. Some people are incapable of forming letters in an unambiguous way.

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Fan Mail Part N plus 1

I’m being lazy. This arrived in my inbox moments ago with a request that I publicize it. So, I am. Read the rest of this entry »

Fan Mail Part N

I can’t remember how many fan mail posts I’ve written. I’m not going back through the years to find all of them and count. I may have written a “Yet another fan mail post.” I don’t think I ever wrote a “Fan male” post. I think I’ll have to wait until I get the sort mail that I feel like posting that has to do with male only body parts. Yes. That is an invitation.

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A Great BIG Nothing

Many of the times I put stuff here, I put it here without having anything to say. Today is such a day and I’m having nothing to say twice! I find that to be thrilling.

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The Honeymoon is Over

I’ve graded and returned my first suite of assignments. That is always depressing. The marks are never as high as I’d like. I realize anew each year that the students don’t understand what I’ve been telling them. Helping them to learn will be a whole bunch of work on my part and on theirs and it won’t be entirely successful. I always know that but Read the rest of this entry »

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