I am in the process of learning how to solve a Rubik’s cube. I’m now pretty close to being able to solve it no matter what position it starts in.
If you didn’t think I was a geek before, that last statement should have cemented my status in your eyes.
While I certainly don’t condone the blog entry of Gregg Easterbrook (or as some reading this entry might know him better, TMQ), I’m not completely sure that I agree with ESPN’s reaction, even if his comments were directed at the head man at Disney. Wouldn’t an apology and an on-site rewording have been sufficient? Now, all loyal Page 2 readers lose what’s most likely either their favorite or second-favorite (behind the Sports Guy) columnist in all of Page 2, and I’d be willing to bet that at least half will have no idea why.
I think that I picked a pretty good game to go to Tuscaloosa to see Alabama play, given the current circumstances. And it was definitely good to get to see a lot of old faces.
German’s Third Law of Graduate School: everyone else’s research always sounds much cooler than your own. Think I’m joking? Others agree…
If I had to pick the thing I like the least about being a teacher, I’d have to say it’s recording grades and regrading what seems to be all the time. Sometimes it feels like I’ll never completely catch up.
Sometimes it’s hard to look myself in the mirror and realize that I’m over a quarter of a century old. I just got a cold shiver thinking about it.
I’m in last place in my fantasy football league. I haven’t had a quarterback break 30 points in a game yet; I’m the only team that’s had this unfortunate turn of events happen to them. And yet, I still plug away, looking for someone on the waiver wire that will turn my season around (right). It’s fun, in a beating-yourself-up kind of way.
I will be going to bed in 10 minutes. It’s the earliest I will have been to bed in about a month.
2 thoughts on “mid-October notes”
C. Wipey
Hey, BG!!! I empathize with you on the grading and regrading, etc. I am doing my student teaching internship this semester, and I have just taken over all of the classes completely. I’m tired beyond belief! It would be fine if I didn’t ALSO have to go to work 4 hours every night after school… but it will all be over soon enough! Take care; it was SO GOOD to see you in T-town last week!!!
I’m really upset about the lack of TMQ myself. While I’m sure it will turn up on another website (unless some contractual thing prevents that), his column was entertaining and, as of late, better than The Sports Guy’s. I didn’t even know he had a blog, nor do I think it’s appropriate that he be punished for something he wrote on another website. And ESPN.com at least owes its readers an explanation of why they fired him…I had to Google it just to figure out what had happened. I figured it was because of some of the links he had put in his articles or something.
Admittedly, biting the hand the fed him was not a smart move, but come on…if I posted something bad about the president of my company on my website, should I be able to be fired for that? Granted, no one would ever see it, but the concept is the same…
Hey, BG!!! I empathize with you on the grading and regrading, etc. I am doing my student teaching internship this semester, and I have just taken over all of the classes completely. I’m tired beyond belief! It would be fine if I didn’t ALSO have to go to work 4 hours every night after school… but it will all be over soon enough! Take care; it was SO GOOD to see you in T-town last week!!!
I’m really upset about the lack of TMQ myself. While I’m sure it will turn up on another website (unless some contractual thing prevents that), his column was entertaining and, as of late, better than The Sports Guy’s. I didn’t even know he had a blog, nor do I think it’s appropriate that he be punished for something he wrote on another website. And ESPN.com at least owes its readers an explanation of why they fired him…I had to Google it just to figure out what had happened. I figured it was because of some of the links he had put in his articles or something.
Admittedly, biting the hand the fed him was not a smart move, but come on…if I posted something bad about the president of my company on my website, should I be able to be fired for that? Granted, no one would ever see it, but the concept is the same…