Ok, I’m starting to get a little freaked out by this. A couple of nights ago, I got over twenty blank text messages from the same Nanjing cell phone number, which I didn’t recognize. I figured that a student probably had my number and just sat on his/her phone or something. But then the same [...]
KABLAMMERS!
No hands.
Inexplicably, one hand.
OH GOD KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT!!!!!!
Damn, I’m having a nice night. By the end of this week, I was starting to feel like I was going to absolutely explode, all spikes protuding and all bile spewing forth. But I had the sense to give myself a total night off, and now I’m feeling just fine. I had the bright idea [...]
(Oh you best believe I bought the opportunity for ridiculous dressup pictures…)
I graduated from Carleton College, which is a small liberal arts school in rural Minnesota. I clarify this because so few people in the states have ever heard of it. The conversation usually goes like this:
“Where’d you go to school?”
[brightly] “Carleton!”
[blank stare]
“It’s in Minnesota.”
[further blank stare until the other person comes up with the only [...]
Well, it’s Tuesday, and as a coworker put it, it’s like vacation never happened. However, I’ve got two new classes this term, I’ve lost the horrible IELTS classes that I had no idea how to teach and constituted five extremely painful hours of my workweek, and I’ve got most of my afternoons off. I’m happy [...]
Ok, the Philippines have some of the best monsters I’ve come across in a while, with the coolest monster names ever. Here are my favorites (this is all from skimming wikipedia which is thankfully unblocked at the moment).
First up, and perhaps most famous, the aswang. “Aswang” is a bit of a catch-all name that refers [...]
Ok, this got brought up in casual conversation and it perplexed me almost as badly as turtle sex used to: how do bats poop? They’re hanging upside down, so how do they do their business without getting it all over their adorable fuzzy little persons?
Here is the answer, and here is the source:
Roosting upside down [...]