I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

I need some sort of Dean icon. 

Now, back to grading exams.  You hate writing them, we hate reading them, but they make the school year go 'round.

What's Latin for "I graded"?

Twenty-seven exams (First Amendment) down, 32 to go (trademark). I have a colleague who, after he'd just finished reading the exams for the first class he ever taught, was asked by one of his students what the exams were like. "Well," he said, "now I know why I did so well in law school." It took him years to live that down.

In other news, this looks wonderful -- Hamlet played with little plastic ninjas. Performance constitutes texts, people!

( Smallville season finale )

... to bring you this gem, from a Smallville News guest column: "I ask you this: did Bruce Wayne wear cufflinks made of the bullets that killed his parents? No! Why? Because it’s freakin’ disturbing!!!!! And if a guy who masquerades in a bat costume doesn’t do that, that means it’s *really* disturbing."

Yep.

Also, GIP from justabi! I should probably read more Wonder Woman, but I don't know where to begin.

Please, tell me that one (or more) of you is entering the WB/Verizon Get Lex contest. I want to read his emails* but lack the requisite phone service. Indeed, at the moment I lack any cellphone whatsoever, having dumped a bottle of water into my bag yesterday, leading to frizzing and buzzing and ultimately a comprehensive cellphone failure.

Anyway, I'd love to hear about the special content available only to those who sign up for the contest. Also, the contest is called "Get Lex." What's not to love? There should be icons.

*My inner censor said, "Is that what they're calling it these days?" after I typed this.

( Lackadaisical reactions to Recruit )