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Sometimes I feel like I grownup. Usually when I achieve something on behalf of my kids or my students. Other times, I feel like such an infant. This involves being in a position of some authority — chair of a committee, for example. I feel like I am a kid wearing Dad’s shoes. Like someone…

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Some time in your mid 40s you stop saying I took a walk and start saying I took MY walk. pic.twitter.com/LDMtOTDUSu — 🇺🇦 Dean Bakopoulos 🇺🇦 (@DeanBakopoulos) November 9, 2020 To be fair, Angel was the right boyfriend for Buffy coming into her power. Spike was the right man to be with as she became…

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From a review of my proposal submitted to a federal funding agency: “This proposal envisages using [name of approach], which (to my surprise) has up to now not been used for [specific systems] and which I consider very promising. So this goal on its own is highly original and valuable.” From the introduction to a…

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All right! The election insanity is over. I am personally thrilled by the outcome, and I assume the same holds for much of the blog’s readership. However, this place has never been about politics and I am not a sophisticated political thinker anyway, so let me just say I hope we can all exhale now,…

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https://twitter.com/CardinalPhink/status/1324632262470705154?s=20 Who would have thought 2 men in their 70s could maintain an election for this long? — Angie Moxham (@AngieMoxham) November 6, 2020 https://twitter.com/kjhealy/status/1324364539471794178?s=20 pic.twitter.com/KrAys7G0B2 — Erika Nolte, PhD (@ErikaDNolte) November 5, 2020 Did I make this whole thing for the last line? Yeah pic.twitter.com/bNXiZWk53B — Alisha Rai (@AlishaRai) November 6, 2020 https://twitter.com/TheSamhita/status/1324779741170335744?s=20 https://twitter.com/alex_abads/status/1324820257685602304?s=20

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— Look, I know everyone is freaking out about the election. I have no words of wisdom, so I will: a) Give you this handy link on what to do instead of screaming into the Void (McSweeney’s on point, as usual) b) Rant/whine/moan/scream (but not into the Void; into the rest of the post) on…

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Had a really busy day today plus feeling a bit under the weather, possibly a letdown effect after the stress of proposal writing and such, so here’s just some music.  A real post tomorrow.

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Yesterday, I sold a story at a pro rate to a very selective magazine. I’d been sending pieces to it since I started in 2017, 21 stories in total. One shortlist, otherwise form declines. I was about to stop sending them work, convinced they’d never take anything of mine, and then they did. I am…

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A surefire way to tell I need to blog is that I start leaving increasingly verbose comments on other people’s posts. Here are a few recent gems turds examples. [Seasons] I love fall; it’s my favorite season. I love rain and gloomy skies and wind and leaves changing colors. Nothing makes me feel like I…

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Welcome to November! Here is some Twitter goodness to start off the month. You know how Degas did studies of ballerinas? Well I do studies of Tom Holland performing Rihanna’s Umbrella ayyyyy 😂 pic.twitter.com/t2uvLqnIoo — Alice X. Zhang (@alicexz) November 6, 2019 https://twitter.com/EQuotah/status/1322645395252617217?s=20 https://twitter.com/sarahmhop/status/1311712639639326720?s=20 "This movie plays upon viewers’ worst nightmares — your lesbian wife…

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