Damn it. As I got off the bus on the way into work earlier this week, Rundle Mall (the main shopping street in Adelaide) was bedecked with plastic snowmen, Christmas bulbs and chubby Santas – in the first week of November. Nooooooooooooo! Are you seriously expecting me to be festive for two months, for one-sixth [...]
Posts Tagged ‘karma’
As the flames rose to a Roman nose
“Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking
When I said I’d like to smash every tooth
In your head.
Oh … sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking
When I said by rights you should be
Bludgeoned in your bed.”
I don’t know how we got there, but Dr. O’C and I were talking about bullying the other day. I think I expressed [...]
I don’t sell bullets and I don’t sell crack
It’s an excited free man coming to you from the bottom of the globe today. I’ve been racking my brain since my undeserved windfall yesterday to come up with the best use of a year of sponsored free time. I’m leaning towards adding some tools to me personal toolbox. My university isn’t the best academic [...]
And for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself
As many of you know, one of my jobs has me teaching Biotechnology at one of Adelaide’s three universities. It involves one three hour lecture and two five hour practicals every week. We’re about two-thirds of the way into term, so I’m starting to run out of gas a bit. After a long day of [...]
I guess all this history is just a mystery to me
19 Sep 2008 at 16:31
A Free Man
Australia, Football, Georgia, Georgia Bulldogs, Missouri, Music, expatica, link love
(For those of you who, inexplicably, couldn’t give a toss about college football, scroll down for some non-sports related fun and public humiliation. )
Lot of controversy on A Free Man lately, so I’ve decided to ease into something we can all agree as the weekend nears – the supremacy of my almae matres’ football teams*. Both [...]
This I Believe
Annie Savoy: What do you believe in, then?
Crash Davis: Well, I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman’s back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to [...]
Well child, are your lessons done?
I. Am. Tired.
The two job situation in which I find myself has ramped up to the point that I actually have to do two proper jobs. Properly. I spent nearly eight hours teaching yesterday and while my acquantainances who are real teachers may snort derisively, that’s a lot of teaching for a slack university lecturer. [...]
Analysis and freaky sensitivity
Gregor Mendel, the father of modern genetics, started to study the mechanisms of heredity after observing variations in flower color in his garden pea plants. He began to notice patterns from season to season and ultimately was able to predict the frequency of one flower color occuring in subsequent generations versus another. What started with attention to [...]
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