Student: You sound just like a YouTuber I watch called Bricky.
Me: Okay.
Student: Also, you're built like a Gears of War character.
Me: [immediate collapse, seal laughter, crying]

I've been talked into going to Vegas. For Thanksgiving.

Today my 18th-c Art and Literature class that I team teach with an Art Historian made marbled paper.

I saw Matt Mercer over the week-end. It turns out a faculty member at another university I vaguely know is friends with him? And she invited him to talk at her school.

"Mother, how could you permit this?"
"Hey, dad, friends!!!"

I'm a professional educator.

[family, Rodrigo] Prayer circle for Rodrigo. He's trying to move to another state.

[library] I see this and I go

My teaching partner from Art History: "Half of the class is getting the Rake's Progress and the other class is getting the Harlot's Progress."
Me: "The two genders."

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.