I went out for an early morning walk today, and was brought up short by this reminder of the terrible Minnesota Pyroclastic Mud Flow of 1998…an entire family wiped out, leaving behind only these imprints from their flailing, panic-stricken limbs.
Maybe I’m projecting, though, with a lot of flailing going on here as I dread having to buckle down and finish all my grading. I think I can get it all done today if I push hard.
This is a huge grading day — final grades are due on Wednesday. But I took a brief break this afternoon to take a few pictures on this frosty foggy day.
This is my favorite photo, though.
That’s a screenshot of the piece of the Canvas window for my cell biology class: usually, that big white space lists all the assignments awaiting grading. They’re done! Nothing left to grade! It hasn’t been that clear since mid-September!
Cell bio is done, two more classes to go (they were much smaller than cell, though, so they won’t take as much time.)
Listen. You aren’t allowed to write erotic fiction if all you know about human anatomy was learned from playing with a Barbie doll.
This one looks a lot like the virtual one that has manifested in my office.
Mine is now about half that size, because I’ve been making progress on chopping it down.
Stop by and say hello!
Today is our fundraising day! We just put up a handful of interviews with a few of our bloggers. Now you can see their faces and hear their voices in addition to reading their words!
Donations are welcome! We’re trying to dig our way out from some unpleasant legal debts caused by a SLAPP suit against us.
It’s been one year since we sunk our foe in a triumphant legal victory, so we happy defendants are going to have an orgy of back-patting and self-congratulation tomorrow evening at 6:30pm Central. It’s public! Come join us!
I wish we weren’t.
This state has been moderately robust in its response to COVID-19 — not great, but at least we’re mostly not in denial — but I blame our high ranking on the fact that we’re surrounded by dumbass states, like Wisconsin and both Dakotas, that don’t even do that much. We ought to just close our borders, shut down the schools and churches, and get this damn thing under control.
