@bernardtjoy Strictly instrumental jazz and classical. It’s the only way I can shut out the distracting ambient noise of the world.
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LanceTheBard
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LanceTheBard
@lancelusk
Assistant Professor of Instruction in Interdisciplinary Studies. Loves classic literature, film noir, fountain pens, cigars, watches, and cocktails.
Arlington, TX Katılım Ocak 2009
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I envy people who can listen to music and read or write at the same time.
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@FixingEducation Methinks that the burdensome system of hoops a teacher has to jump through to miss work for illness is entirely intentional.
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The amount of paperwork and prep required to take a day off as a teacher is wild. It’s honestly easier to just show up with my suffocating allergies.
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Time for the Antigone Spring Books Give-away! 40+ books and pamphlets on offer worldwide. Just repost this message and follow us, and on Sunday 3 names will be drawn. 1st chooses 20 things, 2nd 12, 3rd gets the rest. We'll add details of the items over coming days. Good luck all!
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@zenahitz @JaycelAdkins My Junior Preceptorial at St. John’s was Moby-Dick. It 100% changed my life.
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Five shows to get to know me:
1) The British Office
2) The Simpsons
3) The West Wing
4) The Wire
5) MTV’s The Real World
Dr. Bradley J. Sommer@DrHistoryBrad
Five shows to get to know me: 1) M*A*S*H 2) Farscape 3) The West Wing 4) Parks & Rec 5) New Girl HM: Castle, Numb3rs, Cheers, The Sopranos, Firefly
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@bernardtjoy Which is funny because Eliot was around 22 when he wrote it.
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No one should be allowed to teach Prufrock until he is at least nearing the age of 40.
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@NC_Renic My pat answer in these types of situations: 1st build a Time Machine, and then travel back to when you could’ve made better decisions.
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“Dear Professor, what help can you provide to someone who ignored the course completely and needs to submit their essay in 4 minutes?”
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Summer 2026 enrollment is now open! 📚☀️
Explore great books with readers worldwide this summer. Browse our course offerings and apply today: catherineproject.org
Applications close Friday, April 3rd.
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My favorite experience with Hamlet was in a college lit class where a classmate literally shouted out, appalled, "He's thirty God damned years old?!"
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Student: How are you going to mark my assignment missing, I told you I did it on paper.
Me: Oh, I must not have graded it yet.
S: So how can you mark it as missing?
Me: Well let's look at it now. (Goes through grading stack) It's not in here
S: I haven't finished it yet.
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@bernardtjoy Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and Princess Mononoke.
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@CalltoActivism I know it’s Oklahoma, but how on earth does someone without even a bachelor’s degree become a US SENATOR?! We have age qualifications but not education minimums? Please make it make sense.
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🚨Holy sh*t.
Rand Paul just rolled the viral video of Sen. Mullin threatening Teamsters union president Sean O’Brien to “stand your butt up” for a physical fight.
This is embarrassing. My god.
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In the last 150 years we have gone from the verbal tic “I declare” to the verbal tic “I guess” and it shows.
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@corbydavidson Roy Acuff? He has to be over 100-years-old by now. The Mavs are crazy to do this!
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If the Mavs get Acuff from Ark, I’m seriously going to do somersaults naked for 6 days straight and then vomit all over myself. He’s that good.
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Counterpoint: there may be benefits to reading even “bad” texts critically that are better than reading nothing at all.
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Life is much easier when you understand that the vast majority of people in the United States have no idea what’s going on. They live in a Netflix series. It is what it is. You must accept the reality that most people cannot perceive reality
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