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  • Happy Halloween! You will notice--I hope--that my profile pic is a lit Jack-o-lantern carved with my favorite face--ME. Hahahahhaha. S ince Halloween is not a national holiday, I went to work. Not only did I …

  • Two alma maters Even though it's Saturday, and even though there's the UCLA logo on the right, it's not really a football post. Honest. M any people who have gone to graduate school have gone to two different …

  • Don't TGIF M an, this has been one hell of a week. I can't remember the last time I've felt so busy. Of course, I must blame a lot of it on poor time management... as if I should have to worry about such things…

  • Fingers on keyboardI shut my eyes to focusonly to catnap... I'm so tired. I'm in my office. Someone come and chase me home!

  • Sports Entries S aturday's entry was about my beloved UCLA Bruins. They have been playing their brians and asses off, only to fin themselves as the number nine team in the Bow Championship Series ranking. This …

  • Former Teammate:Old Friend, New Nemesis Update: UCLA 51 - OSU 28 O nce upon a time, UCLA recruited two freshman as quarterbacks. Both were highly rated high school students, both in the top 20 of …

  • Five Weird Habits I' ve been tagged twice recently... actually, more like last week. I would have written something ealrier but I've been busy with the immigration stuff and then by the work I put off while I w…

  • My Readers I t has been almost two and a half years since I began to blog back in June of 2003. I am not the most popular blog, certainly. I have seen sites that get thousands of hits and hundreds of comments d…

  • Fiasco W ho fucked up? CIS (Immigration)? The courts? Our lawyers? I don't know. Our lawyer said that today's interview was just a formality, so he didn't have to go and we should save our money. Well, that was…

  • Citizenship and Immigration Service T omorrow, M and I go to Immigration (CIS) for her interview. As I previously mentioned, our court appearance in August went well and things were going swimmingly. Two Friday…

  • Cardiac Cubs, 44-41 T he LA Daily News has dubbed my beloved UCLA Bruins the Cardiac Cubs. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not. Losing for most of the game, only to pull it out in the end is not good…

  • Love to hate burningsecrets: Hmm. I wonder what it would be like to be a student of yours. Y ou are not the first reader to wonder this. Indeed, one reader--Daddylike?--once said something about giving his lef…

  • Spelling counts II A couple of days ago, I posted my thoughts on spelling. Writing is, in my books, an important way to communicate, and correct spelling goes a long way for the reader. Now, I realize that spel…

  • Columbus Day M onday was a holiday, I think. Of course that didn't mean that I didn't have work... or class... Every school in the DC area had school off except us. According to my students, this is because ou…

  • Spelling Counts A s an instructor of literature, I love words. It is expressive and conveys our thoughts and feelings at a distance. There is nothing that can replace words and language. It is at once abstract …

  • I'm Exhausted I apologize to all my non-football fans. There are three things that have kept me preoccupied this Fall: Work (and loads of it), M's immigration situation and all the legal hoops I have to jump…

  • I Finished! Barely... W ell, I'm finally finished... I think. I sent my stuff to the editor on Saturday night... or was it Sunday morning? The UCLA game started at 10:15 over here on the East Coast and I wached…

  • No, I'm not finished, but I have a good excuse... N o, it has nothing to do with the Bruins, although that in and of itself would be reason enough. But no, that is not it. Yesterday, I got a call from an old…

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