{"id":573882497,"date":"2011-11-28T23:05:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T05:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573882497"},"modified":"2011-12-01T02:53:24","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T08:53:24","slug":"back-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2011\/11\/28\/back-to-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to it"},"content":{"rendered":"

The break is over. Reality returns. And so the emails are landing in my inbox, their replies whirring back again. I would like to find out one day how much time I spend in the various email accounts. I would like to find out and then immediately forget that piece of information.<\/p>\n

When science gives us personal neuralizers, or flashy-thingies if you will, we’ll have really done something as a culture.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t need to see that … ”<\/p>\n

Flashy-thingie.<\/p>\n

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Of course we would need an idiot-proof these things for home use. One wrong move and you could zap away your entire education.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it was a cold day, but I kept myself warm with grading.<\/p>\n

It was also a dreary, but I brightened the day with, well, not much really. It was quite the dreary day. Nothing was fixing that. I don’t mind Mondays, but the dark by 3:45 Mondays I could do without. A big layer of dryer lint covered the sky from horizon to horizon all day long. Together the two, and a light drizzle, would have been utterly demoralizing.<\/p>\n

So inside I stayed. Half the week’s class prep is done. There is still grading to do. It does pile up, all the things you ask students to do.<\/p>\n

Our Friend Jim<\/strong> <\/strong>joined us for dinner, so we went out for corn nuggets at Niffer’s. He was in town to pick up a new mini-refrigerator for his new office. Or so he said. He picked one up last year, too. He says<\/em> that the best place to get one is in a college town, which makes sense. But having the need for two of them, I suggested aloud, does sound a bit suspect.<\/p>\n

You can’t make jokes about lining the inside of a refrigerator in public without people leaning in a bit harder. He defused the situation by letting it slip that he is an Alabama fan.<\/p>\n

Ah. Well then. So long as he isn’t carrying Spike.<\/em><\/p>\n

And everyone was relieved, returning to their meals.<\/p>\n

Flashy-thingie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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