I wanted to say something like this, but didn’t want the comments shitshow that would ensue.

You can’t double-dip in the gene pool.

The sibling and I don’t have a lot of rules, but we have that one.

I love how you’ve policed her writing while leaving entire words out of your comments.

Intent apologies are the worst. Maybe you didn’t mean to drunk drive over a kid, but the kid is still dead. Didn’t mean to rape? Murder? Whatever?

You know when something is super hysterical to you and your office friends, but makes no sense in the light of day?

She was an exceptionally bright student. If that’s what she wanted, it was her own choice.

I’m a human being who struggles to accept when people are different from me, the same as I imagine it’s hard for them to accept the ways that my values don’t align with theirs.

No one said wrong, or wasted. Just not what I would have chosen, so harder for me to accept.

Notice how I said it wasn’t my business? It made me sad because I have different priorities, and I never once pushed them on her. I hope her life path brings her everything she wanted.

I had a student recently whose life goal was to become a wife and mother.

It means he speaks in a way they can understand. Because they are of similar levels of intellectual curiosity and/or intelligence.

Which is to say: level zero.

I miss being able to tag pictures with comments, because I want to tag that little baby girl’s face and say, “See how the little girl is like GET ME THE FUCK OUTTA HERE? That’s a girl who knows her legal rights are in jeopardy if this man is elected.”

I think I agree with you regarding mandating the amount of a leeway a judge has for sentencing - there’s a lot of potential for it to go horribly, horribly wrong, and there are times a lot of good can be done with creative sentencing. The idea of serving time on the weekends is great for many crimes, but in this…

If parents pay for tuition, they aren’t legally allowed to see grades or discuss in-class performance with an instructor, unless they have the students’ written consent. I’m not sure why a rape charge would be any different.

I like what you are saying here, so I assume your speaking is voice is quite pleasant.

I recently saw an old episode of Mickey Mouse Club, and it sounds like she wasn’t properly trained in how to use her voice without wearing out her vocal cords. She used to be a little bitty belter.

So. Telling the receptionist this helps .... How?

You do realize you’re lecturing the poor sap who answers the phone, right?

I just got word that a course I'm teaching next fall will be using a stage production as an out-of-class event and I am beyond myself excited.

I am not a massage therapist and have zero feelings one way or another. My coworkers who ARE get a little shitty about it, but I assume it’s because it cuts into their ability to work.