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Felixbook 2.0

The Internet makes you stupid. I believe this is a scientifically proven study. If it isn’t, then someone better get on it if they want to contend for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Ghetto insulation makes me crazy

I don’t know much, but I know cold.

Today I try to fix the problem.
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I have to watch a guy film

My wife and I rent movies through Netflix. We set a list of movies up in a queue, and they’re mailed out to the house one at a time as we return movies we watch.

I have to set it up to see The Big Lebowski, a guy film that I’ve never seen before.

Why?

Because of Under the Tuscan Sun. Because of death.

Oh, why haven’t I ever seen it before? That movie that’s like a rite of passage for guys?

That, I’ll get to later.

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Call me master

I finished my Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science this past May.

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Three trips in one day

Trip 1: Buy comics in Lakeview Continue Reading »

When the going gets tough, the tough go gaming.

Of course there’s always work to do, and the more of it you do the more of it you generate somewhere else along the line.

So if I grade these 30 papers that means the class progresses to generate 30 more papers sooner. If it’s five classes with 30 papers each, that’s 150 papers generating 150 more. It’s like a population explosion except with student homework assignments in place of hungry mouths.

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Sometimes you just happen to piss people off

Or at least I do.

I have papers I haven’t graded. I have lessons I haven’t planned. I have a set of difficult reference questions to answer, a paper to write, and a long list of chores to do that I haven’t done. So what do I do as I settle into the closet office on the fourth floor?

I tip over my department head’s coffee onto her papers.

So. Perhaps my final blog?

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