Gah!

Dr. Doom is so damn emo. I mean, seriously, who wears an iron body because of an itsy bitsy scar on their face? Who?

Me. That's who.

Your results:
You are Dr. Doom

Dr. Doom 64% Poison Ivy 62% Magneto 61% Mystique 61% Catwoman 60% Apocalypse 57% Lex Luthor 51% The Joker 48% Dark Phoenix 45% Two-Face 45% Mr. Freeze 43% Green Goblin 41% Riddler 37% Juggernaut 37% Kingpin 32% Venom 31%

Blessed with smarts and power but burdened by vanity.

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I'm going to Kansas City -- Kansas City, here I come!

So, here I am.

I'm currently in the Kansas City, MO International Airport.
I have no idea why they call it an international airport. It is a small airport. A very small airport. But, thank god it has free wireless internet. I was really concerned this layover would totally suck.

Yay free WiFi!

We've got about an hour left. . .

Okay, folks. So, I'm about to pack up my ol' laptop soon. Here are some things that I have learned over the semester:

• Busy people may get things done, but those things may not be done well.
  
• Plan, plan, plan.
• Never schedule 3 conferences in one semester (again).
• Sleeping pills, even if they are Advil PM, are EVIL!
• Television, even if it contains only local channels, is EVIL!
• Drunk people are not always pretty people. However, they are really easy to beat at air hockey!
  
• Harry Potter plus foreign language readings skills = good times.
• If you get sick, drop everything, and sleep for 14 hours. This is the greatest cure on earth!
• The new Blogger is pretty freakin' cool.
• Porn is traumatic. For everyone.
• I heart my office mates. All of them!
• Never let your weekly cleaning get out of control.
• Flipping my sleep schedule = good idea for about 2 days, bad idea for 363 days.

I am so excited! For food, folks, and fun! And lots of food! And family! And snow!


Wait a minute. . . did I say snow? Yep. Surprisingly, Madison has had a warm spell since I've been here. This is strange. I can run around outside without a jacket for at least 10 minutes without getting frostbite. That is weird. Yet, Colorado got a huge blizzard. Very strange indeed! Sounds like the work of. . . .


duh duh duh. . .

Global Warming!

Be on the lookout everyone. This is bad news.

And with that, I bid you a farewell until I reach my final destination. . .

Guess who will be doing laundry when they arrive in Denver?

ME!!!

You guessed it.

Oh boy, oh boy!

At any rate, I've been busy with grading exams. . . Not too shabby though. I do have to say that my students, so far, have been doing a good job.

But, I've only graded their IDs so far. . . not their essays. . .

So. . . WE SHALL SEE


On another note, because O'Hare has been totally swamped by delayed travelers, I will be arriving about 3 hours early to make sure I catch my flight without much suffering. What this also means is that I will need to catch the 5am bus to Chicago. Guess who's pulling an all-nighter again?!

That's right! It's me! And yes, I remembered to purchase the cheese. Now, I must be sure to pack it tonight!

O Tannenbaum

You Are a Minimal Christmas Tree

You're not a total Scrooge, but you feel no need to go overboard at Christmas. Less is more, and your Christmas reflects refined quality.

What Christmas Tree Are You?

Watching the show Identity makes me think. . .

What the Hell? So, all my students tell me that there is an interior and an exterior to every person, and that these two things can be completely different. And yet, there is this TV show that has a contestant guess who a person is based on their appearance.

So, do our external appearances really tell others what we are like on the inside? So much so that a complete stranger can guess who we are without anything but?

Woo-hoo! My list is nearly complete!

Looky-look!!!

What I must get done and when:

• Film presentation (like tomorrow, literally!)
• Film paper (next Thursday)
• Grading of last minute stuff and extra credit (this weekend)
• 18C novel paper (December 20th)
• Grading of final exams (December 23rd)
• Finding my S.O.'s sister an xmas gift (ASAP)
• Cleaning my house so I don't return in a state of chaos (priceless. . . oh, I mean, whenever)

Yes, I'm procrastinating. Leave me alone. Or not.

What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm You're probably in the final stages of a Ph.D. or otherwise finding a way to make your living out of reading. You are one of the literati. Other people's grammatical mistakes make you insane.
Dedicated Reader
Book Snob
Literate Good Citizen
Non-Reader
Fad Reader
What Kind of Reader Are You? Create Your Own Quiz

I'm going in communicado (as if that changes anything)

So, now we are finally approaching the final nail to my semester's coffin. Here's to you, nail!

What I must get done and when:

• Film presentation (like tomorrow, literally!)
• Film paper (next Thursday)
• Grading of last minute stuff and extra credit (this weekend)
• 18C novel paper (December 20th)
• Grading of final exams (December 23rd)
• Finding my S.O.'s sister an xmas gift (ASAP)
• Cleaning my house so I don't return in a state of chaos (priceless. . . oh, I mean, whenever)

When it comes right down to it, I always say that I will get things done early in the semester, and I always fail to do so. What I need to do is to stop saying such things. The world is always in a state of chaos, and I am always waiting there with my shoe box and personal organizer.

On a totally different note, I am in love with these notebooks. They are the best things ever, and I would argue that they are the next evolutionary step in notebook-ness.