Merry Christmas everybody. Hope its been lovely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVOQkBzST2g Just realized that this song, which I first heard in 2009, is about a bar here in Oakland that I actually go to pretty frequently with the history teacher from our school. Hell, I'll probably be there tomorrow. Green Day/Foxboro Hot Tubs songs are taking ...

Completed my wretched grad school assignment. Final count: 20,440 words. Started it on Saturday.

Bad: Haven't been sleeping particularly well for some days now, which is unlike me, so I am very very tired. The Ugly: Today was the first day back from a week long break which means that students were an absolute fucking disgrace. (Theres some good too: I'm 13,000 words into this teaching grad scho...

Tonight I feel bad and I'm not handling it particularly well. This is unfortunate.

Last night, after dinner, myself, my older brother, and two of our friends were drinking in the basement and decided to turn on Omegle, which is something we often do when we are drunk. Typically this results in us seeing a lot of surprise male genitals, but NOT THIS TIME. (Well...) We came across a...

Adjective endings in German are the actual worst.

But happy burfday!

Yeah I wouldnt say its a power thing. I definitely don't feel like I have any power. I wrote up a super long post about labor and compensation in the United States, but then I was busy drinking whiskey and closed it. Whoops! What it boils down to is that its relatively easy to get a teaching job in ...

I will always remember the German word for 'window', not because of my many years of German class, but because of "defenestration". Ive actually never understood why the Germans use the Latin root for 'window' (fenestra) rather than the old Norse root 'vindauga'. One of those weird languag...