oh my god. one of the worst sg-1 episodes EVER.

Yeah, it’s terrible for your voice. I’ll catch myself slipping into it occasionally and don’t realize it until I’m thinking gee, why does my throat hurt? I’m a teacher and if I talk like that all day I’ll have laryngitis by the end of the week—and I am teaching people studying to be music teachers, so I try to make…

nooooo I loved BSG.

I gave up around the time that they froze Wilson’s bank account (because he was writing prescriptions for House? I don’t even remember).

Season 1 was great. the rest, bleh.

I don’t let my cat out because I don’t want her getting hit by a car or captured by some asshole who wants to tie fireworks to her tail or use her for bait. I want her inside, where it’s safe.

I once taught a student named Anakin. I’m not even kidding.

Yeah really. It’s supposed to combat the huge meth problem in Oregon but all it does is make life miserable for those of us with allergies who live in the fucking grass seed capital of the world (the Willamette Valley). Thankfully, I live within a day’s drive of the Washington border, so I couple of times a year we go…

Just let everyone vote by mail like we do in Oregon. Your ballot is mailed to your home along with a booklet containing information about all the candidates and all the issues. You can either mail it back or you can hand-deliver it if you really want to make sure it gets there. No need to take time off work, stand in…

Unless you are in Oregon, and then you have to get a prescription, which is a pain in the ass.

I don’t understand why personal finance is not a required part of high school educations.

They provide the piece that connects the furniture to the wall; you have to supply the right kind of fastener to connect the piece to the wall, depending on whether it’s brick, sheet rock, plaster, whatever. That isn’t included because they would have to include six or seven different types of fasteners for different…

I like ebooks for fiction and paper books for nonfiction, especially anything I’m using to teach with. If it’s something I need to read and understand, I do better with paper, but screens are fine for pure entertainment reading.

There are probably more (brand-new) Titans fans in Eugene than literally anywhere else.

So here’s the thing. An update about a month ago screwed with my laptop’s drivers and it made the keyboard and touchpad completely nonfunctional. I had to roll back the update and have ignored update messages, because I don’t want to go through this shit again. So how am I supposed to get this update?

A+ Princess Bride reference

The tetanus shot SUCKS. But I get my boosters religiously, because tetanus itself sucks worse.

You gotta take the laughs where you can get them!

The StumbleFumble will never get old. As an Oregon fan, I watch it often to ease the bitter bitter taste of the National Championship loss.

not just parents, but teachers too. In 1991 I went to New York City on a high school field trip over spring break (I was from a tiny town and a tiny school in SC). The teachers turned us loose in Times Square one evening and said “be back here at 9:00.” We had to stay in little groups of 5-6 kids, but there wasn’t an…