Discipline

I had a lousy day at work today. My two classes were fine, if a little rowdy, during our game of Taboo. It doesn’t bother me that they are rowdy, as long as they are speaking English. I prefer to have rowdy students who participate than silent ones.
Because it rarely bothers me […]

Junkies, birthdays, etc.

We here in Apartment 8 suffer from an Internet addiction. You might be surprised to hear this since I almost never blog. But one of the symptoms of my addiction is that I never use the Internet to do anything useful or good, like keeping in touch with my friends using something other […]

On living with Joe

It’s like if I said “We’re having pasta for dinner tonight, but I’m not going to tell you what vegetable we’re using.  Surprise!  It’s tomato!”  It’s that kind of surprise.
What I’m trying to say is, you’re going to get a tomato cake.
Said Joe, as he was leaving on a secret mission to retrieve a birthday […]