When Awkward Exclamations Come In Handy!

I hate Christmas time, and the required feeling that you must buy gifts for anyone and everyone. Furthermore, I think it gets a little absurd when a person (in this case students or parents of students) feels so moved to get any random thing for another person (teacher) because they feel obligated. Now, I'm not going so far as to say I would be ungrateful for a student's gift to me as his or her teacher, but I do feel awkward lines get crossed. Read Redbook Magazine's slightly humorous list of Worst Teacher Gifts submitted by teachers themselves. My personal favorite: the Victoria Secret Gift Card!

It's like if a ? and a ! made a baby.

I love punctuation. I despise the incorrect use of exclamation points or the use of too many of them. Whoever said using an exclamation point is like laughing at yourself is completely right. I stumbled upon an article/blog posting discussing the interrobang -- the combination of an exclamation point and question mark. You know, for those occasions need both, like: "You did what [insert interrobang here]"


As I type this, Firefox is claiming "interrobang" is spelled incorrectly. Catch up with the times, Firefox. Get rid of your little red squiggly line. It upsets me!

Now, I just need to figure out which commands I need to use on my Mac to get it to work.

The Culture of the Interrobang by Anne Trubek is clever and witty. And so, so true of today's times. Check it out!

I'm too dumb, I'll use others' genius.

"What would you do if you knew you could not fail?" ~ Robert H. Schuller

"Don't frown because it's over; smile because it happened." ~ Dr. Seuss

"Art means to dare--and to have been right." ~ Ned Rorem

"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do no and do it." ~ William C. Durant

"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture ofyourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination." ~ Norman Vincent Peale

"If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting." ~ Dick Vermeil

"Kites fly highest against the wind, not with it." ~William Churchill

"The person who upsets you the most is your best teacher, because they bring you face to face with who you are." ~ Lynn Andrews

"I'm not young enough to know everything." ~ Oscar Wilde

Life Failure

I saw this quiz on MSN. I failed it. The quiz is a good reminder of how far education has come since back in the day!