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Fun with Swine Flu and Rhyming

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Given the slightly OOC news reporting about and around the old Swine Flu this past week I felt compelled to post the following facebook status:

Frank Lattuca Swine Flu? More like WHINE Flu….geez. Actually WINE Flu sounds like something Susan and I get routinely on a Saturday morning….PINE Flu is another name for allergies? Help me out here people….

Thankfully my friends enjoy puns as well, and this is what we came up with:

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A Fake Essay

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Being a teacher can be a bit…daunting.  It’s quite a shock when 18, 19, even older students hand in work that is frankly…very poorly written.  Clearly last minute.  The product of not only not taking care but, sadly, a reflection of their high school experience as well.  Teaching mostly freshmen I’m generally at that front line of “this is no longer acceptable, it’s time to grow up” work.  I try and laugh it off usually, but the other day it really got me down.  So I wrote the following essay in the style of some of the more…troubling…essays I’ve received.  Nothing in here is from any paper a student gave me, nor is it really intended to insult-a look back at my work at the age of 18 would probably reveal at least similar, of not the same, shock. 

Someday I’ll post some of my “hall of fame” quotes from papers, but for now if you want to know what grading papers can be like, take the following and multiply it by 15 papers.  Enjoy.

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