There’s a Star Trek fan convention in Indy during Thanksgiving weekend. I’m torn. Do I visit WO’s family, visit my family (or some branch of it), or go to the Trek/sci-fi convention and rest at home for the week (or go hiking nearby)? I really am torn. Christopher Judge will be there!

I went to visit a very, very well-respected professor today to give a few ideas that I thought could improve a course I’m in. I thought I was respectful and mindful of my status as a student (i.e. not [yet] a professor and not very well educated on pedagogy). I was met with the honestly outraged, “Are you trying to tell me how to run my course?” The feeling I got was, “Who the hell do you think you are?” The prof brought up my wish to be a professor, and told me pretty firmly that I’d find things different when I was on the other side of the podium.…

So that Check Engine light? Totally my damn gas cap not being fully tightened. I’m usually pretty careful about that shit, courtesy of watching too many Hollywood movies where cars blow up if anyone looks at the gas tank the wrong way. I was charged 30 bucks for that shit, too. Frown. While I was there, I went ahead got some other maintenance done (i.e. got some near-broke shit fixed): I got my drive and timing belts replaced. Based on a quote I’d had from about a year before, I thought I should be out $500, but it was only $300. Shit, my ass doesn’t even know what a drive…

In which Travis makes an ass of himself. Continue Reading Oh, and about those snakes