One of my favorite moments in LOST happens during a flashback. Jin, one of the characters, is meeting with his father to tell him that he’s getting married. His father is a poor fisherman; Jin’s in-laws are rich business owners in Korea. In their conversation, Jin relays all sorts of anxieties and troubles that he is having in his relationship. He starts to explain: “Father, in an ideal world…” And his father interrupts and says: “Jin, it is an ideal world.

There’s a site called BotPoet, which displays a poem that is either written by a human or a robot. You, as the spectator, get to vote on whether you think the poem is human-written or bot-written. After you vote, you get the true answer, along with a breakdown of what others on the site thought. I tried this out myself. Turns out I can’t tell the difference very easily between bot-written poems and human-written poems.

The night before a potential snowstorm was magical. No snow had actually touched the ground yet, and of course, our parents made us do all our homework even though the weather station was predicting a few inches in the morning because, hey, they could be wrong. So we’d go to sleep in the same way kids go to sleep on Christmas Eve. So excited you can’t sleep, but anxious because you want to sleep so you can just fast forward to the next morning and see what you got.

+++ title = “03” date = 2019 +++ I’ve done it. I’ve bought myself five mason jars. I’ve loaded up on salad ingredients. And for the past half week or so, I have lunched on nothing but healthy and delicious salads. No breakfast. I don’t miss burgers or bagels or breakfast pastries. Actually, I do. Honestly, if I had my way I’d be eating a box of Duck Doughnuts every single morning with a very cream filled coffee.

+++ title = “03” date = 2019 +++ When I was applying at schools as a teacher, there was a pretty standard application process. You’d send your resume and cover letter like always, and then you’d have an initial interview. If you made it past that stage, you’d move onto something that was called a “demo teach.” In a demo teach, you teach a group of kids at the school at which you’re applying.