Taking Stock: Comments

1. You learn a lot about your colleagues and their hang-ups when you sit in a teaching workshop with them.

2. If twenty years from now I'm the type of professor who uses 15 sardonic words to say something that could be said in 5 sincere words, someone please just euthanize me.

3. Redneck + Pickup + Rain: bad combination.

4. I am thrilled about Monday.

5. There are no conflicts more fraught with danger than church conflicts. Especially Baptist church conflicts. *shudder*

6. Among the many pleasures of my life: reading something new, savoring new phrases, new thoughts, new wit.