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Did you know I'm a teacher? Now you do.

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They Tried to Justify Me

For their final, my Intro to Academic Writing students had to do one simple thing; argue for or against the existence of my job. Either individually, as in I shouldn’t be teaching, or institutionally, as in first-year composition courses shouldn’t exist at all. They’ve got some

do teach

do teach

My duology lies in ruin. Doom and elation come in predictable patterns and one can be overcome with the approaching visage of the other. The recent seasons had no idea that the election of a pedophile would have the power to disrupt their celestial pressures, tossing us all through gales

a frowning face poked into snow

would Iwata layoff faculty like this?

In the tumultuous middle teens of the adolescent 21st century, Nintendo released, to no real fanfare, the Wii U. Widely panned, widely forgotten, widely reemerging as a quality console for home brewing and exclusives that just didn’t get Daddy Reggie’s full attention. The failure of the console, at

pixel art image of drugs on a table and a rocket about to take off into a red sky

project hail teacher

Project Hail Mary is one of the rare instances of optimistic science fiction that doesn’t just absolutely suck the soul out of me. If you don’t want that optimism ruined for you then I beg you, go out and watch the movie and read the book before reading

a photograph of a digital W2. The wage paid is USD 19,493.31.

don't teach

I make no attempt to separate my work from the wider context of my life. I am, against my best efforts, a teacher in the same way that I am blind, queer, human. Folks in my axe league call me “Doctor Professor” (I am technically neither, but make no attempt

how to read uninteresting works

how to read uninteresting works

Size Matters

Size Matters