I Was Going To Start Reading the Stack of Education Weeks that I've Accumulated....

....but when Hal Jordan stares at you like that, you damn well better read comic books instead. So that's what I did, and I feel like a better man for it. Teaching may not pay the way we'd all like, but you've got to love the vacation time.

(If you're a Green Lantern fan, the above is pretty good; there's a Hal/Guy story, especially, that sticks out above the rest.)

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More Grievances I'd Rather Not Have to Defend

Good times:

Jenna Jameson now has a 9-to-5 job. Fully one quarter of employees who use the Internet visit porn sites during the workday, according to October figures from Nielsen Online; that's up from 23 percent a year ago. And hits are highest during office hours than at any other time of day, reports M. J. McMahon, publisher of AVN Online magazine, which tracks the adult video industry.

I'd suspect the numbers are much, much lower for schools, given firewalls and the fact that we're government employees. Let's keep it that way.

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The Blackboard Jungle

Education Week has an article about a new movie from Ed in '08 called 2 Million Minutes. The trailer looks interesting; I might need to buy a copy.

It looks very similar to Flunked: The Movie from the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, which I've also been anxious to see. Hopefully, it will be out soon as well.

And speaking of movies I've been waiting for, Beyond the Pale looks absolutely hilarious in the trailer as it satirizes life in academe. It debuted in Austin last fall; I hope it's available wider soon.

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