A Big Congrats and a Vent-o-rama

So, in follow-up to the grand accomplishment of das Beck, we have the same news from our friend Ali aka the PGOAT - she, too, has passed her boards. Wahoo! Congrats Ali!!!

And now, some ventification. I taught a class today - you may check the progress of Ye Olde Science Ande Sociale Issuese if you wish - that got derailed an uncountable number of times by my class's lack of vocabulary skizills. I just e-mailed this to his NTPB-ness, but I am going to repeat the rant here - check out the following terms which either caused me to stop the lecture and completely define the term or caused someone to raise a hand and ask what it meant:

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fallacy
sans
anecdote ("that's the thing that stops you from dying, right?")
authoritative
empirical
subjective
objective
Copernican
geocentric
heliocentric
geography (more than half the class thought this was the same as history)
lithography (really? visual artists don't know lithography?)
photography (just kidding, but this is what I had to use to make them understand what the root "graph" means. Ugh)
vantage point (maybe "perspective" would have clued the artists in)
Occam's Razor

Now, admittedly (heliocentric, for example) are basically "have you heard of this before" style words. But "sans?" "Anecdote?" Ay caramba. These would be the children of your future, not mine.

Alright, rant over. I accomplished a lot today, including 3.33 miles on a treadmill, some weights, some tutoring, and extensive lesson in vocabulary oh my god. I also slugged out all my class comments which is a big fat endeavor - I finished it in about 2 and a hlaf hours which is beyond record-setting.

My brain is fast fading though, so I will now hit the proverbial hay. No Beck tonight as she is 3 to 2-ing it with his royal highness, Mr. Heed-Pants-New himself. In the ER, no less. I was left to my omelet making devices. Sweet.

Alright folks, another glorious tick in chalk on the prison wall. Join me, um, later, for something more substantial. Like a review of Sherrybaby, the long-anticipated Maggie Gyllenhal movie. Beck's summary: "She's like a glorified pornstar." Golden Globes, I suppose.