Too Good

This song is too good. I hope the rest of the album is as good. This song really hits me, I love it! 

In two years I will have been a professor for 20 years. Too long to do anything!

I should have left much earlier; now I don't think I can leave!

It's a bit much trying to adjust to the students' incapability all the time. But what else would a teacher do? 

This term is nearly over, and my run as an authoritarian did not work out well at all. I thought I'd try it as my colleagues get such joy out of this kind of power. I wanted to see what the fuss was about. There's no fuss and nothing about. 

In the fall I shall go totally lax to pay back some of the karma. Not sure it works like that but we'll hope.

Four weeks left of this nonsense then the summer for thinking.

Losing Vision



I was just writing along in my class taking notes on presentations when I heard a pop and the lens of my reading glasses fell out. 

This is symbolic! Am I losing my ability to see what’s necessary in teaching? 
This semester seems so. 

In the fall a return to basics is what’s required. 

Refreshing an old MacBook

Should I refresh every old computer I work on? Probably.

However I think that if a computer works and can do the tasks that you need it to do, just leave it alone. 

This old Macbook has been backed up and I removed a bunch of software from it that is outdated or no longer working. Seems fine. I think I'll just leave it as a writing machine - one that is distraction free because trying to run a Google Search on it takes longer than it does to make a cup of coffee in the Keurig. A big cup. 

Lived in NYC

Yesterday I was playing on the PlayStation for the first time in a long time. I met someone new and heard myself say “I lived in New York City for a long time but I live in Long Island now.”  

I know long islanders would say “on” Long Island; I don’t think I will ever adopt the local colloquial patterns. However it is shocking to me to think that living in NYC is in my past!

It shouldn’t be. I moved here in May. But this was the first time I really considered life in the city to be between two bookends. 

I’m kind of happy about it honestly! 

Pokemon A - Z

I should finish up Violet so I can have my Pokémon ready for A-Z which was announced at the Pokémon direct the other day.

I'm excited for a Pokémon game that is in the modern Pokémon era but has the play style and combat innovations of Pokémon Legends: Arceus which was the best one so far in my opinion. 


The Fedoras on all the characters is a hilarious subtweet I think of the player base. But then again maybe not. I'm not sure why I like Pokémon so much but I'm definitely not one of those kinds of fans.