cornerofmadness

Since we could use it after yesterday.

1. My promotion committee approved me for promotion. Now it goes up the chain, just like my tenure did. It could get denied of course since it would be a big pay hike so think good thoughts.

2. I wrote nearly 4K while my students were taking exams. Their suffering is my muse.

3. I woke up with a plot point at 4 AM and I still remember it!!

4. Holy Clothing offered to replace the dress. i turned it down, deciding to keep this one.

5. Here is the flyer for my presentation on Friday.
2013 Madog Faculty Fellow
Dr. Dana Evans
Presents “Neolithic Wales: Passage Graves, Dolmens and Standing Stones”
JOIN US THIS Friday, April 19, 2013 @ 3:30 PM
Bob Evans Farm Hall, Room 111

The quest to learn more about the standing stones and Neolithic burial sites that dot the Welsh countryside became quite the odyssey. The research trip started in the south of Wales and ended at the island of Anglesey in the north. Along the way, Dr. Dana Evans, under the guidance of Ms. Mary Baker, Head of Archaeotours, visited dolmens and passage graves spanning from 4, 000 to 3,000 B.C.. Key to the investigation was to uncover why these sites were built and what they meant to their builders. Piecing the picture of these early people together from what little they left behind remains difficult, but it is also an enduring mystery that makes these sites relevant to modern man.
Sponsored by the Madog Center for Welsh Studies

Yesterday was strange even for me (even before the tragedy)

I was in a self mutilation mood apparently. My ankle sprained 4 times while I was standing still. It just gave up! Then I fell into a wall and dislocated my left index finger at the knuckle which is now swollen and black. And I fell at the library, didn't hit ground but wrenched my back in avoiding it.

And it could have been entitled "Weird Shit in the Back of Pickup Trucks."
1. At work I had to park beside someone with those tear-down dining tents stuffed in with the support bars sticking out all over.
2. On the way home, I saw a man with a bass boat, not hauling it, oh no, Not in Ohio. That's too normal. He had this little bass boat IN the bed of his truck, tailgate down and only one strap (side to side, NOT front to back where it could slide out) holding it down. I passed him doing 75 just to get around him before that flew out.
3. On the way back from the library I passed a truck trailing a white pony and in the bed of that truck he had attached a metal pen to the sides and had two more brown ponies in it and it wasn't a dually. No it was a rusty old pickup.
4. Right in front of horse man was pig man (probably related) who had pigs in dog crates in his truck. No tail gate. No noticeable tie-downs. Also the pigs were doing it.

God I love it here. Whimpers.

The bad news? I gave a test and I'm betting the failure rate is off the charts.

ETA - I think I might have to up that word count again