And It's Thursday

1.
Ruthless editing this afternoon.

2.
Dear Students,

Just so we're clear:

If you don't pay attention in class, please don't ask for my help after class.

If you do, please do.

3.
This post from The Onion reminded me a lot of what it feels like to be an English teacher on a bad day.

4.
Inexplicably, The pinky finger of my left hand keeps sticking down on the shift key this afternoon, so when I capitalize the first letter of a word, I get a couple extra letters capitalized. LIKe this.

Annoying.

5.
It's my brother's birthday. I wish I could make fun of him for being old, but I'm older, so I can't.