I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allen Poe

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
- H. L. Mencken

Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so
-Bertrand Russell

What I have been telling you, from alpha to omega, what is the one great thing the sigil taught me — that everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken at will from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness. If the sigil were proved to be the top of a tomato-can, it would not alter that big fact, nor my fixed faith. No Harrowby, the common names we call things by do not matter — except to show how very dull we are ...
-James Branch Cabell

April 10, 2007 - 11:34 a.m.

Tests in school? How shocking!

Last night I had a nice entry planned for today. As is so often the case I seem to have misplaced it someplace in my brain.

So what do I have to write about? There is always my students. I announced that I was giving a test next Monday to both my calculus and tech math classes. I got the same reaction in both classes. "Monday?" In shock. I told them last week there was a test coming up. I gave them a week's notice now and they act like that is outrageous. In response I said, "I could give it this Thursday if you like." Monday didn't seem so bad in that light. Now I did tell them a week ago that a test was coming up I just hadn't given the exact date so there shock seems a bit ridiculous to me. How much warning did your professors typically give you for tests?

I had another Crohn's attack last night. This one was of a different sort. I didn't have pain and I wasn't nauseous. I just had a fever and felt weak. This is exactly how it used to hit me most often. I took some Tylenol, rested in bed, and I'm feeling fine this morning.

Today I'm picking Lena up at Penn station. She is flying back to Israel tomorrow. We still don't know how what we are doing today

What happened to spring? It is only 39�F.

Oh well. My entry idea is not going to come to me so I'll just leave this entry as it is.


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please hold me accountable.





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