On Tuesday, May 23, 2012, Lulu started a new job. She has had some important jobs before now, but this is her first post-graduate Big Girl job, and she found it all by herself. She is editor and producer for care2.com, “the largest online community for healthy and green living, human rights and animal welfare.” It is a dangerous place to visit, a sea of time-sucking vortexes. I found, for example, a collection of videos […]
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I Feel Boring
It’s been a hard week, this last of the semester, with a persistent plagiarizer, a near mutiny about my final being unfairly difficult, and pleading students emitting buckets of tears because of not passing the class. I’m too soft-hearted not be be bothered, but too serious to succumb to pressure. I asked my students to complete a survey about my classes. Here is a sampling of their comments: I can learn very good ,important,common,grammar.I must […]
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