Dear NSA was pointed out this morning on a mailing list I’m on.
Month: May 2006
Those Percussion Groups
If you’ve ever seen a really tight percussion/performance group, and wondered how they got to be so damned well tight, so deeply in unison, I can tell you. They practiced like mad. Like absolute mad. The dance steps and everything. Outside my window. If I had more time, I would grab some audio and post it. Maybe tomorrow. They’ve been practicing for hours every evening and I’m sure they won’t suddenly stop tomorrow. I’m not complaining, by the way. I can always put music on, and it basically drowns it all out. But it is quite amazing how singlemindedly dedicated …
Eggcorns
I miss these. I used to see them in student papers in Canada a lot, but here, they’re not so common.
Condoleezza Rice at Boston College? I quit – The Boston Globe
I, for one, applaud Steve Almond.
Teacher’s Day
It’s teacher’s day in Korea. You know, like it was Mother’s Day in North America yesterday? (Yes, I had a lovely chat with my Mum, but didn’t post about the day since she never reads my website.) Well, today it was teacher’s day. Our students here are really very sweet. They held a party for the occasion, for the professors in the department, which was sweet in itself. (I felt badly arriving late, but I’d had class, and it went overtime, and then I helped a student sign up for her classblog, something she should have done 2.5 months ago, …