Comic for Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Posted: 6:35 am, Wednesday, March 18th

Alright, this will be relatively brief because I lost most of the links I had all y'all. In fact, unless I can remember anything in the next ten minutes, all I have right now is this picture of Joba Chamberlin looking like he's one of my ninth grade boys. You know when you're reading a book and a character is described as having an intelligent look about him? This ain't what they mean by that. (Ah, spring! When a young man's fancy turns to hating the Goat Fuckers. Sure am glad I paid for their stadium!)

Sheesh, what else *did* I have for youse guys... I thought I'd be able to save 'em all in my closed tabs folder, but I had to grab a bunch of examples of subjective or objective writing last night to try and teach that today, and I guess I displaced the goods.

Shoot, gang, I'm sorry, all I'm doing right now is drawing blanks, and I should get moving. I have a ton of grading to do before Friday. I have about 62 freshmen or so, and they all had projects due on Monday. I had seven handed to me on Monday, most kids got 'em to me yesterday. It's not like I gave them four hours of classtime to do this or anything. Hopefully I'll have more on Friday.

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Miyaa -- Wednesday, March 18 2009, 09:26 am

Inspired by your recent comic showing Pete & Ron enjoying the meatballs at IKEA, when I discovered that Portland, OR has an IKEA (at the PDX International Airport complex), I went to check the place out. They didn't have what I was looking for (electric kettles), but I did find a really great deal on scissors.

The meatballs were fabulous! It was worth the $12 I spend for dinner there.

I always tried to stagger big projects so I didn't have to grade an ungodly number of the same thing--made my brain go numb. But then it meant keeping up with who tuned things in late and trying to grade the ones turned in first first, etc. Ugh. I totally feel for you and don't miss grading hs English paper at all.

Alas, this resonated with me: http://www.qwantz.com/

CK- that was fantastic. I didn't know you read Daily Dinosaur, and you reminded me that I should.

Why do I get the feeling Pete is going to discover that the key Pete will get him won't actually open up his apartment?

I don't, actually -- but I had been teasing our editorial assistant about her relative youth (born in 1982!), and she sent me that. Fun comic!