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akhenaten @ 2009-12-11T00:02:00

2009-12-11T06:02:31Z

09:15 @eea49 Aw shucks. #
13:48 So far, graded 10 papers and it's not yet 2. On fire today! #
14:44 Okay, 19 papers graded today. No more P15s or late papers, so I guess it's time to start grading revisions. #
21:50 Time for bed. I graded 28.5 pages today. As always, revisions count half. #

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akhenaten @ 2009-12-10T00:01:00

2009-12-10T06:01:47Z

06:44 @macmansachin Get #Notify 2, install, run. Click the icon in menubar. Click the cog, go to prefs. On Appearance tab: "Hide Pro Controls" #
10:08 @MiguelMayher Best choice: Wait 6 mo. for the next versions of stuff, after they've sized each other up to compete. Elsewise: nook. #
10:10 I've graded 8 papers today so far and finished P14, which was due only Monday/Tuesday. Go me. Now: P15. #
12:06 @bobfronk Seconded. #
15:52 Installing the recent Airport update on my MacBook, so obviously I pick up m iPod touch. #
16:10 As I wonder once a month, "Why can't iWork's Pages have .odt support if even TEXTEDIT has it?!" Maybe in iWork 10. #
16:36 A student called the $19 Boethius translation I use in Freshman comp "a bit pricey." I fear when she looks at her science textbooks. #
16:46 @ianwheat Of course, in all fairness, it's not one normal bookstores carry, and there was mixup with UTM, and Amazon sold out. #
18:52 Papers graded today: 22. Minimum papers I should have graded: 5. I finished P14, P15, all old papers, and started revisions. #

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akhenaten @ 2009-12-09T00:02:00

2009-12-09T06:02:20Z

09:20 Just got a letter back from Sen. Bob Corker in response to my letter protesting ACTA. Regardless of anything, I feel like my voice was heard #
12:00 I'd like to post more about the letter I got from Sen. Corker, but really, I must now grade. Lunch is over and work begins. #
14:04 Longwinded sentences about simplicity make me happy. #
14:09 I really like #Notify 2, but I set it to not display Pro-mode stuff, and every time I restart it, it doesn't have that option checked. Blah. #
15:09 I've graded 15 papers today and it's only 3. Break time! #
15:15 Wow! I sent in a #Notify bug and got an email back lickety-split. Awesome service, Awesome mail-checker—Free or $10 Pro: bit.ly/WzKRR #
15:17 Oh blather. ANSAX-NET is heating up, filling my inbox. Discussing Beowulf? Ælfric? No--"The List is awfully quiet." Srsly: "I'm bored" posts #
15:19 I leave a 12oz Sprite in the freezer ice tray for an hour, and what do I get? Mildly cool Sprite. Hrm. #
15:22 Awesome—My old OE prof called it on ANSAX-L: "And what does any of this have to do with Anglo-Saxon England?" Right! That's what FB is for. #
15:27 Okay, back to work. #
19:27 I graded 20 papers today and I want to grade more. I'm a workaholic, and as such, I crave workahol. #

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akhenaten @ 2009-12-08T00:02:00

2009-12-08T06:02:15Z

08:09 Just discovered our microwave has a "hold warm" feature. Awesome. #
08:29 @DrewHood YES. It's AMAZING #
12:32 Win a Macbook Pro from @DealsPlus. Details here: bit.ly/7kMWCB #
20:42 Graded 7.5 papers today, 2.5 over my 5 page quota--remember, revised papers only count half! Overall, it doesn't seem as if P14 is popular. #

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akhenaten @ 2009-12-07T00:01:00

2009-12-07T06:01:36Z

14:38 @storiesofmac Oooo. That sounds nice. #
15:48 Ah, grading revisions: it's either horribly easy (fixed/improved everything—A+) or horribly hard (broke all the broken stuff in new ways). #
16:52 After yesterday's sad 8/15 essays graded, I help with today's 11.5/5. That's 2 new papers and 19 revisions, including all those before 11/30 #
21:41 One more pull-my-hair-out-why-would-you-ever-do-that paper for the night, and now to bed. It's been a good day! #

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akhenaten @ 2009-12-05T00:00:00

2009-12-05T06:00:27Z

10:34 Well I've graded 11 papers this morning, despite driving for two hours and teaching for another. Bully for me! #
16:03 I've graded 22 papers today--That's 11 CHS papers, 6 old/late papers, and 10 revisions (counting ½ paper each). I am a MACHINE. #
16:26 Nix that last one: 4 more revisions brings me up to 24/15 today. #
22:21 Check out my latest game of Icon Garden! twitpic.com/s73ax (rampchamp.com/) #

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akhenaten @ 2009-12-04T00:00:00

2009-12-04T06:00:23Z

06:43 Day three of very-large splinter in my foot. Hopefully it'll have worked its way out this time next week. I hate limping everywhere. #
09:19 Heard about the horrible, horrible 4th crusade in the car today. Although it was 99.9% terrible, I do find myself liking Enrico Dandolo. #
12:00 @eea49 No, the 4th is the sack of Constantinople, which destroyed the population and led to the final fall of the Byzantine empire. #
15:36 Got my 15 papers done for today: finished PCHS, made a good little dent in CHS. #
15:46 I was gonna do some Rosetta stone German, but apparently I can't. Problem will be worked out eventually. #

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akhenaten @ 2009-12-03T00:00:00

2009-12-03T06:00:23Z

10:04 Just downloaded the new Quicksilver B57, but B56A7 works fine for me--do I always need to obey update-itis? #
16:21 A previous lover of Mac Twitter/FB/Google Reader app EventBook, I love its successor Socialite. However, must I *ALWAYS* re-login Facebook? #
16:22 Also, 5/5 papers done for today. Considering plowing through to get more done. #
17:23 Revision: graded 10/5 papers today, finishing CCHS. Three big grading days left, with only two more classes. I smell revisions on Fri & Sat. #
20:48 @ianwheat No, but look up Socialite--it does what it does simply and elegantly, much better interface (and icon) than Digsby. #

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akhenaten @ 2009-12-02T00:00:00

2009-12-02T06:00:25Z

11:21 I'm taking part in the $7,000 @macappstorm Christmas Giveaway! mac.appstorm.net/ #
12:48 Yum! Leah's leftover homemade saag for lunch. As we have no access to paneer, it's saag queso fresco--a decent substitute. #
12:53 Now time for the leftover chicken makhani—@ianwheat and @britneywheat, if you can eat a dinner at our house, this is what you're getting. #
12:55 Pure Awesomesauce. Via @grahaminchina: Two of my favorite sites: www.instantrimshot.com and www.sadtrombone.com. #
13:09 @ianwheat Of course, we don't have to have it if you don't want to, but it's AMAZING CURRY: is.gd/59dMx #
13:27 Last night: "Hey, naan heats up great in the microwave!"
Today: "Hey, naan heats up terribly in the microwave!" #
18:29 @krisstraub Nope, only my 7s, even though my 2s are of the super-not-loopy, z-like variety. I just don't care enough. #
18:53 @DrewHood A good argument, instead, might be that feelings are transitory, and so why bet everything on "never get any better" (1/2) #
18:53 @DrewHood when 40-60 years might have better things in store? (2/2) #
19:12 @DrewHood I'm not giving you a guarantee—just asking about that wager, free from emotion. What is the chance things WILL NOT get better? #
19:40 Am I happy with Obama's decision? I wish it had happened seven years ago—it's not what I want right now, but wishes aren't horses. #
20:43 Grading papers. It's not every day you have to type "hermaphrodite" four times in quick succession. Those are hard keys to reach quickly. #
20:47 Ah, semicolons: they only do one thing (asterisk). #
21:04 @emorgan Hope you're having a good (albiet cold) night! #
21:06 Graded 17/15 papers today. That means I get to highlight it yellow in the log! Yes, I am that nerdy--I have a grading accounts receivable. #

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akhenaten @ 2009-12-01T00:00:00

2009-12-01T06:00:25Z

12:00 Cats still haven't gotten in the decorated tree. Fantastic! #
12:49 Having a great day. Got my papers done early, then spent my lunch break discovering www.iconpaper.org/ - is it 12:50 already? #
12:57 Switzerland. Come on. Seriously. Seriously? Wow. #
12:59 It's more shockingly dumb than it is shocking. Aren't there supposed to be smart, far-thinking people in the Swiss gov't? #
18:25 Win a new Macbook Pro on Cyber Monday 2009. Details here: bit.ly/29rFES #
19:40 Leah made chicken makhani and saag. She mixed the naan and I cooked it. Super-amazing-delicious. #

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akhenaten @ 2009-11-30T00:00:00

2009-11-30T06:00:20Z

15:39 Graded 8 papers. Now I'm tired. Hey--that's quota plus three! #
19:29 Time to decorate the tree! #
21:42 Tree is up! Now, bedtime and dreams of the cats not ruining it. #

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akhenaten @ 2009-11-29T00:00:00

2009-11-29T06:00:18Z

09:36 No matter how often I think about it, the separate narratorial voice in the Anglo-Saxon "Wanderer" is intriguing. #
10:21 Confession: I have a problem with "toward" / "towards." I can think through it, but it's not obvious. #
12:04 Well, that's today's 11 papers! #
12:12 In the past 8 days, I've graded 101 papers, up from the normal 90. And I didn't grade at all on Thursday. Today: 4 less than quota. Awesome. #

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akhenaten @ 2009-11-28T00:00:00

2009-11-28T06:00:27Z

08:47 Quit using #QFeeder after using it exclusively for a few days—too much I don't like about it. Const.distraction+no keyb-cuts. Tweetie lives! #
11:37 For some reason, a Pages file I've always been able to read is now broken, and it's all the fault of the font Hoefler Text. I don't know why #
11:45 Okay, a little more precise: Hoefler Text Italic is crashing everything. Everything else is fine. #
13:39 Parsons TR done--now to Parsons MW. So far, at 10 papers. 10 more and I'm done for the day! #
15:44 In many cases, "of" is too vague a preposition. Instead, we can use "about" or "by" or "through" or "with," which all are much clearer. #
15:46 Ex: "They were talking of it." "He is of that city." "That cord is of that device." A relationship, but no specific KIND of relationship. #
16:10 Okay, SIGH--that's 20 papers for today. Whew! #
16:11 @emuhleem Ouch! You have my sympathies! #
16:46 Okay, graded 6 revisions, so that's 23 for today. #

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akhenaten @ 2009-11-27T00:00:00

2009-11-27T06:00:20Z

08:05 Leah: "Are you grading an essay?"
Me: "No, it's a scholarship essay X has due Dec. 1"
Leah: "Okay, good deeds are allowed on Thanksgiving" #

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akhenaten @ 2009-11-26T00:00:00

2009-11-26T06:00:24Z

11:35 Add word to dictionary: "blockquoting" #
17:24 11 papers graded--CHS done. I'm done till Friday! #

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akhenaten @ 2009-11-25T00:00:00

2009-11-25T06:00:19Z

07:57 About to drive--overall, it's been a nice relaxing morning. Breakfast: Ham & Eggs. Listened to more of the 12 Byzantine Emperors Podcast! #
13:19 Good paper, good paper, groan. Good paper, good paper, groan. I'm sensing a theme today. #
15:05 CCHS finished day after they were due. Now to get 5-10 more papers done! #
15:10 Anyone else having to sign into #Evernote every dang time on the 1.6.0 Beta 4? It's driving me batty. #
15:19 @Veritrope Oh, good. Thanks! #
15:52 Time for class, and I've just finished my last 5 of the day--3 old papers and 4 revisions. Huzzah! #
17:53 And now... time for chili! #
21:17 Upped the total for today: from 15 papers to 19. #

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akhenaten @ 2009-11-24T00:00:00

2009-11-24T06:00:25Z

09:09 After clearly, intentionally, forcefully NOT pulling my hair out, I get a good essay. Ahhhhhhh. #
09:43 Caught the dog chewing on the corner of a William Morris book on the bookshelf. Of course, it was a free book from the trash, but still. #
09:56 RT @9to5mac: New Post: Free $3 MP3 credit from Amazon.com bit.ly/8YrJsJ #
12:19 @theath WANT. Bring me back a bottle, and I'll compensate you for it. #
21:55 Graded 7/5 papers (2 were 4 revisions), taught some class, and did a good deed. Good day! #

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akhenaten @ 2009-11-22T00:01:00

2009-11-22T06:01:13Z

08:46 In the past 20 minutes, I've graded 4 papers and finished CHS. 1 every five minutes!
Of course, they're some of my best students. That helps #
10:11 @bobfronk I'm thinking of the Fun Run episode of the Office right now. #
12:10 So far, 11 papers graded and it's only noon. Awesome. #
14:52 Finished 20 papers today--now time for WalMart, followed by dinner with the fam. Afterwards: either Settlers or Puerto Rico. #
14:54 Wait wait wait wait: I opened a file, moved the file on my hard drive, & when I hit save, it saves it to the new location? I love my Mac. #

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akhenaten @ 2009-11-21T00:01:00

2009-11-21T06:01:30Z

08:44 What do you do when a student forward-spams you? 1st: "Please do not." 2nd: "Please do not." 3rd: yelling. #
16:30 Oh man I hate parentheses. If it's important, use a comma or a dash. If it's not, delete. Honestly. #
16:31 @ianwheat !Nope. #
16:36 @ianwheat Yup--sorry, just saw my 21-hour-old reply. Oh well.

What's a character sheep? #
21:47 @leamayo Well, sure--I should have said "In long-form writing that matters" #
21:48 RT @mikemearls: This might be too late, but I suggest allowing minor action second winds, for dwarves give them the option to use 2 surges. #
22:17 Tomorrow, we wake up whenever. It's the first day in 10 weeks I can say that!! #

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akhenaten @ 2009-11-20T00:01:00

2009-11-20T06:01:32Z

12:16 Mood: Colon Dee #
14:14 11 Papers done. Wahoo!—four left! #
14:14 Also, I changed my default browser to Chrome. No, I can't believe it either—I've been using Firefox exclusively since 2003. #
15:06 Well, that's 15/15 for today! Time to go print off some more tests (if the copier's not still broken :P) #
15:38 My first real pain after moving to Chrome on the Mac: No #1password support. May be returning to Firefox faster than I thought. #
18:20 Leah made delicious chorizo enchiladas tonight. If you want to know how good they are, here is a sign: Leah did not want sour cream on top. #
18:29 Tried creating a Smart Folder in Finder for revisions, stymied by the conspicuous lack of "is not" or any such delimiters. Blah. #

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akhenaten @ 2009-11-19T00:02:00

2009-11-19T06:02:14Z

09:24 Grading papers, then Leah emails me about a possible #Pirates4. Attention: gone. #
12:24 5/5 Papers already today. Today's going GOOD! #
12:35 Grading's all done for the day. 30 minutes until I need to leave for class—not enough to do much of anything. What do I do now? #
17:19 Worked out (boy, are my arms tired!) and graded the first round of quizzes, which averaged 3 points higher than the last quiz's average. #
17:49 Kerouac, Goethe hate hipsters, too! RT @beatonna: ol' timey hipsters pt 1 harkavagrant.com/ #

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akhenaten @ 2009-11-18T00:01:00

2009-11-18T06:01:08Z

19:51 Of the 15 papers I should have graded today, I graded 17. And now Leah's home so we can watch Heroes! #
21:44 #Heroes still has me interested. When things come together in natural yet chaotic ways, I don't get bored. #

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akhenaten @ 2009-11-17T00:01:00

2009-11-17T06:01:21Z

17:48 Flipping through a textbook, I find "haroque"—what word is this? OED has nothing. My guess: "baroque" typo. Too bad, sounds like a good word #
20:38 Graded the requisite 5 papers today. One of them was an accidental re-grade of an old paper, but for my workload, it totally counts. #

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akhenaten @ 2009-11-16T00:01:00

2009-11-16T06:01:31Z

16:45 Quota for the day was 5 papers; I got 10 revisions done. A revision is 1/2 a normal paper, right? #
22:35 Since I got done with all my stuff, and so did Leah (and since grandparents were in town), we played Mexican Train on double-12 dominos—Fun! #
22:40 Our dehumidifier has settings for "loud" and "quiet." We assume those correspond to something other than just noise. ERRRRRRNNNNNkachunkssss #

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akhenaten @ 2009-11-14T00:00:00

2009-11-14T06:00:11Z

20:35 FINALLY 15/15 papers--which means finishing Parsons MW, TR, and starting PCHS. Whew! #

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