I have precisely three classes left this semester, each one hour long. Well, actually, fifty minutes, but you get the idea. This evening, a final-exam postmortem with my English Through Drama class, and a final meeting with my evening Intermediate Composition class, where the students will write me a letter, at my request, about what they’ve learned in the last 15 weeks. Tomorrow morning, I’ll have another one-hour meeting with my other Composition students and they’ll do the same thing. From then on, it’s all just about assigning final grades, marking one written final exam, and wading my way through …

ganked from badassbroccoli: o1. my uncle once: rode a motorbike all around rural Quebec. o2. never in my life: have I been as happy as I am now. o3. when i was five: I had to wear a patch on my good eye, and banged into everything in my way when I went walking. o4. high School is: no kind of place to learn anything. o5. i once met: the Dalai Lama. o6. there’s this girl i know who: who writes a lot about gay and transgendered people in my writing course, and who has, perhaps for this reason, begun …

I’ve added loads of photos to my Flickr account–linked in the sidebar–in the last few days. Today, I added shots from today, an outing with Lime around Bucheon. Users on my contacts list can see more pics, including pics of Lime, who’s forbidden public posting of any pictures of her, for reasons I’ve discussed before on this blog. Anyway, lots of new pics to see. I’m making this pro account worth the price.

Feeling sick. Not doing much of anything right now. Vegging. Surfing. Gonna watch a movie. I’m hoping to kick this cold by next week. I have a somewhat busy week ahead, as the last real week of classes for the semester. Play performance Monday. Tuesday, a lecture and review for an exam. Wednesday and Thursday, I’m having the writing students do an unusual assignment — writing me letters about my class. Thursday, a lecture on “The Canadian Identity”. Then that’s it. A final exam on the following Tuesday, and piles of essays to read but a lot of time to …

So one of my students raised, in a smaller-group discussion in class, the idea that Dr. Hwang Woo-Seok was defrauded by Americans who stole his work–scientific espionage!–and then sent fake results under his name to Nature.

Last night I was up late doing some laundry — a lot of my own, plus some of Lime’s, which needed to get done last night so that she could bring it back to the hospital early today. The place where she’s working doesn’t even provide a single washing machine for those members of staff working 80-120 hour weeks, if you can imagine that… their one night off is when they get to go somewhere else to do their laundry. Anyway, she was dead asleep but I was waiting for the dryer cycle to finish drying the load, so I …

It’s pathetic to admit it, but the real reason I finally got off my butt and sent subsmissions out was because we had a challenge set up among my classmates from my Clarion West class, that we would send at least six stories out within the first three months after the end of the workshop. I barely made the deadline, but actually, it’s a good thing I held off. I caught a couple of things, such as the fact that in the beginning of “Soul Competency”, my Second Coming With a Twist story, the guy teaching English to The Lord …

Anyone else out there having this problem? I searched the Web for complaints but couldn’t find any. When I try to load AllConsuming.net nothing comes up… which has significantly slowed the loading speed of my own site, since I had a couple of feeds from my consumption lists on display on my pages. Has anyone else noticed this, either on my own site, or in terms of the original AllConsuming site? If it goes on much longer, I’ll have to cut the AllConsuming feed and if it’s not fixed in a few days I may migrate out. (I was looking …