I almost made it to 200k in my toyota camry. Unfortunately it started to have problems (not major, but replacing things and at that point the cost was more than the car was actually worth) than 2k away. It was my very first car. RIPieces 1996 Toyota Camry

I agree with your overall main point about a knife just happening to be there, but “had brought” is not the passive voice. “Had brought” is English’s pluperfect tense of the verb bring.

Want extra fucked up and academically related? Teaching used to be the domain of men (all of it not just secondary or post-secondary). So when women entered “traditionally” male spheres, significantly K-6th grade, wages plummeted. Your comment reminded me of a the recent article that touches on this subject.

This scenario is really interesting in terms of how I personally think about voluntary and freely chosen reproduction and the choices and rights of both women and men. When an embryo is sitting in a laboratory freezer (therefore circumstances have taken a woman’s health and bodily autonomy out of the equation)…

This isn’t at all surprising that a campus administration would do this sort of thing. Let me take a wild guess as to what the admin response will be: meetings will be scheduled with the president of the college and the director of student affairs, coalitions will be created to really study the issue and involve the…

Emus are one of the Australia’s deadliest and fuzziest creatures, which I find impressive considering the competition. When I was little, my great aunt and uncle had them (they had a large hobby farm) Their emus had a hilarious past time poking people in the back with its beak.

When I was growing my my great aunt and uncle owned a farm in rural WI and had lots of different animals like llamas, donkeys, miniature horses, emus, peacocks, chinese deer, and varieties of waterfowl (with their own pond enclosure) including a breeding pair of black swans.

You are not wearing enough layers until you physically cannot move your arms!

I was just going to say that I wish I had access to a thermostat that controls my office. Our building cranks the heat in the winter - seriously two weeks ago when it was bitterly cold outside, it was over 80 F in my office.

I think this was a very cogent way of explaining it. I would add that the meme in its most basic sense contrasts ‘hypothetical stakes’ of this potential exchange. One outcome (laughter) is not as permanent as the other (death). This leaves little room for error in judgment of character.

I can appreciate your reaction to the original meme and I think that there are an awful lot of men who care deeply about these issues.

I wish the following story was a joke (it most definitely is not): not too long ago in a discussion of scores on evals, a friend (who teaches in a different department) remarked that the easiest way she knew to boost her student evaluations was to lose 20 lbs.

I like that idea too - because I feel like no matter how hard you try, in addition to your actual subject material, you must teach students how to think. This takes more time than the 15 weeks (we go by semesters) I have with them.

I find it eye-opening to “compare” comments with my peers. I have never heard any of the men talk about students that mentioned their appearance (whether the prof wore a suit every lecture or was more of the eccentric type with sandles and mismatched socks).

Weirdest comment received on a teaching evaluation: “Wore different earrings to each section.”

As a fellow fledgling professor, I would say that the reason that most professors do not take evaluations seriously because they are basically consumer satisfaction surveys. Students do not know what “good teaching” is to properly evaluate it.

I love Jena Friedman’s look from 2:37-2:38.

It definitely makes me jealous that some of the students are from such lovely climates that they don’t even think about checking the weather or how they are going to dress for it. :P

I do the same. So invariably sometimes I will look like a crazy person in rainboots with an umbrella even though it might start out sunny (or end sunny) because there was more than a 40% chance of rain and walking around on campus without proper gear really sucks!