Category: Nerdery
Today we had a grant application due for a grant we’ve been working on for the last eleventy billion years. Finishes touches were put on it over the weekend and today it just needed one last read through and then to be photocopied and picked up by the courier. Last night I had a dream […]
It’s a big day for very soon-to-be-Dr. Raul of Hummingbird604 fame. Good luck on your defence, Raul!
It is pronounced eSpecially, not eXpecially. kthxbai.
I’ve been a bit neglectful in my posting pictures I’ve what I wear to teach. Like, as soon as I mentioned that I was in the habit of doing that, I stopped doing it. But I have been taking the pics… just haven’t got around to posting then. Well, wait no longer, friends, because here […]
In honour of National Grammar Day¹, I’d like to present you with this funky punctuation mark that I learned about on the Grammar Girl podcast: the interrobang. ‽ This funky punctuation mark is, as it appears to be, a combination of the question mark and the exclamation point and is used in situations where you […]
While Infinite Jest continues to be the Moby Dick to my Ahab1, 2, I’ve decided that perhaps I needed to tackle some of the other books that have been piling up around my apartment. As I mentioned, a book I ordered from the library ages ago came in, plus Christmas brought a bunch of books […]
Guess who has a job?? Starting on Monday!!!