When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
Extraordinarily Ordinary
Job Interview of the Day: Hugh Jackman auditions for a teaching position at Harlem Village Academies – on the strength of classroom experience he acquired filming the X-Men movies.
totally stealing this for my next syllabus…
A really nifty article I found while looking for a .gif of Gandalf studying in the archives of Minas Tirith. Seeing as I hope to one day become an educator (hopefully a professor of languages, like Tolkien!), there is some great advice in here!
Members of the Class of 2012,
As a former secretary of labor and current professor, I feel I owe it to you to tell you the truth about the pieces of parchment you’re picking up today.
You’re f*cked.
Well, not exactly. But you won’t have it easy.
First, you’re going to have a hell of a hard…
The Exclamation Comma. “Just because you’re excited about something doesn’t mean you have to end the sentence.”
That’s true.
Neil Gainman after being asked what he would say to someone worried about having to know 47 years of backstory before watching Doctor Who:
“No, look, there’s a blue box. It’s bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It can go anywhere in time and space and sometimes even where it’s meant…
