Onward!

Yay! 2010 is finally here. So now it's time to move forward, move ahead, not look back, forget about the decade with no name, the decade of yuk, the decade that time forgot. Time to get out of the habit of writing the yeart as "0x" and learn to use a 1. Time to make fresh resolution, to clean our offices and to ditch old habits and create some enw ones.

Count me in.

Happy 2010.

Moving on

Time to move ahead. The new year, 2010 beckons and I want to make the last week of 2009 as productive as I can. So I'm not looking back, not regretting anything, and actually, I feel lighter, happier and more hopeful now than I have for months. Yay! I've turned the corner and things are going to get better. I know they will.

And as for the past, my Daddy used to say, "What goes around, comes around." I can't wait, grin.

Oh yeah, and beware of low leaping kangaroos.

Quote for the day

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right -
for you'll be criticized anyway.
You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~

One more thing...

Retraction: that standing invitation to come here? No longer exists. Especially for someone I've never met.

Taking back

Dear world. I'm taking back my life now. No more looking back, no regrets and no wondering what I could've done differently. I told a group of students this year that "You can only worry about what you can control." I'm hereby applying that to my life. I can't control other people's misperceptions or their tendency to twist or distort things I have said. But I don't regret what I said. And I'm not going to worry about them either. So there, too.

Retraction

If a person for whom I wrote a letter of rec to grad school now wants to "imagine she never met me," can I retract my letter?

Here goes:

Dear University History Department:

This is to inform you that I have never heard of this person. Therefore, I cannot possibly give you any sense of her academic abilities, her social skills or her potential to succeed. I have no clue why someone I have never met would list me as a reference, but there you have it. I cannot possibly write a recommendation for this person, since "recommendation" implies I actually know this person and she swears we have never met.

I apologize for any inconvenience this may have created for you and your program. You may want to consider retroactively removing degrees from such people.

Sincerely,

The imaginary English professor who has never met this applicant

There. If I can't really do it, at least I can do it here.

Quote for the day

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”

Dr. Seuss