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The Joys of Being an English Teacher

It's Monday, and I took a personal day to correct this pile of high school English papers. You can tell I'm procrastinating because I'm blogging. The pile is not quite as tall as a pen standing on end, but taller than my coffee mug. There are many great things about being a teacher. Taking 12 hours on a personal day to correct papers is not one of them.

The Mall of America: Bigger? Better? Best?

  I realize that I’ve entered this place with the eye of a stranger in a strange land. An American expatriate who has lived in a developing nations for over ten years and who is coming from a lands with power outages, lack of medical care and extreme poverty, my perception of this mall is quite different to those who have made a visit to this place part of their summer vacation.

(images by shamash)

My oh my!!!

Wanna find out what people are saying about my previous post?

"Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not hers" to "She probably makes patchouli smells and wears unamusing old Birkenstocks" to "I will allow no criticism of the fine people who invented the funnel cake" to "I'm siding with the Mennonites until that woman makes me french toast as delicious as the portion served to me by Mennonites at Philadelphia's Reading Terminal Market."

The Retrosexual Code

"A Retrosexual man can chop down a tree and make it land where he wants. Wherever it lands is where he wanted it to land."

- from Grau Magus in his anti-metrosexual manifesto, The Retrosexual Code

Want a good laugh? Want a real man? Read on, dear readers. Read on.

(image via Laura Smith Art)

The Geek to God Syndrome

to rant: v. to speak or declaim in a violent, loud, or vehement manner

This posting is a rant. Read at your own risk.

To the Grapa/100th St. crew, especially USA Conception: I haven't been able to fully "tame down" the wording of the "four categories of men" in this country Somewhere in Asia, but the GeektoGod Gremlin to God is one of them. Here is part of the posting, as promised.

Fahrenheit 451: One Teacher's Rant against the Blogging Ban

"In this slander-free utopia, the use of email is illegal. The use of the internet, too, is banned. As a matter of fact: let’s just go ahead and ban music, literature, text messaging, videos, film, art, and life as we know it. Conversation, above all, should be outlawed. While were at it: why don’t we all just stop breathing and shrivel up and die?"