The goose is getting fat...

ie: Christmas is coming. Almost here, really. There was a time when I wouldn't have been able to fathom spending Christmas away from my own family, and yet here I sit in the snowy midwest. Snowy is a bit of an exaggeration, but there is snow. It's mostly just blowing around, though. The wind is too strong to let it settle. I'll miss them, of course, and I wish I could see them sooner than 11 days from now, but it will be fine in the long run.

Really, though, I need to dissertate. This is not dissertating....

Prepositional Confusion

Based off of? Really? I saw that phrase in multiple student papers this semester. I know that they mean "based on," but I can't figure out where it's coming from. They must be seeing or hearing it somewhere, but it is really odd. Why use two prepositions when one will suffice? Not that I'm the best writer out there, but still....

I'm no longer visiting the wiki. It's too hard. I want to, but I'm scared to now. I feel like the guy in the Cox phone commercial, who gave his number to "three smoking hot ladies" and now wonders why they haven't called. All will be well, one way or another...

Still waiting...

I'm not supposed to visit the jobs wiki anymore. I'm still getting consolation from it, but one of these days I'm going to click that button and find out that my top choices have requested interviews. Or that the list has dwindled down further than I'm comfortable with. I do hate this process, I must say. I'm not good with change, and I'm even less good with uncertainty, so the combination is a recipe for disaster. In the meantime, I grade papers and create syllabi.

Biding my time.....