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Missed dates and missed steaks. I can't stay on topic these days with my writing. Been starting essays on writing and ended up writing about soccer (again). Wrote about dead cows and ate a steak. Went to Houston. Drove to ...Read More

If I Could Sleep

Scotland unveiled a new slogan today: "Welcome to Scotland." My students workshopped the hell out of six essays in class today. On the essays we workshop, I change the student name to protect the innocent, although sometimes it is fairly obvious ...Read More

Welcome to Scotland

Ed Mabrey was in Pittsburgh last night. I sent emails to most everyone I knew, begging them to tell people. I really wanted Ed to have a packed house. Nine of my students showed up. I offered extra credit. Before ...Read More

A fungus among us

I have spent the last three hours (and by "three," I mean five), "productinating." This is a special word I have coined, meaning "avoiding immediate work for minor, lesser work that could be postponed, and in fact should be postponed ...Read More

I just want things to come up Milhouse