Tick Tock

For over two weeks now my left eyebrow has been randomly twitching throughout the day. I would have no problem with this (as occasionally I get such odd facial ticks) except that I do not want to accidentally send the wrong message to anyone I'm talking to. I couldn't begin to tell you what causes these, or why some only go on for a few days and others weeks. But now you know, my face twitches involuntarily.

A portrait of my life:

It hit me, I was sitting at my computer when I realized how nerdy I really am. Directly in front of me was this:






And immediately to my left was a laptop watching this week's episode of House. For reference that formula is a build time calculation dependent on energy and mass ratio's of the total build time efficiency of upgrading mass extractors (images taken from: http://supcomfaguide.com/chapter1.html)(... its all very complicated and technical I assure you). The sad thing is... I follow this... and I majored in English... :'(

The rest of my life has been taken up by doing more subbing. Now unlike other subs, I happen to actually teach things in class and force the students to do work under threat of physical and mental anguish. Which then greatly confuses me since yesterday I had a student walk by my class room and yell out "Dude it's Mr. Cooper, He's the coolest sub ever!" The students have been teaching me much, the other day I discussed the finer points of "Street Fighter" with one guy who ended up offering me a copy of his street fighter four game. As it turns out, a passion for gaming connects me and the students quite easily. Many of the students seem to think it's cool that I game and peruse gaming. And even though I have had to bust one kid for cheating, and pester many thousands upon thousands about getting back to their work, I have taught them something about how to better hide their slacking and fake doing work and secretly play games.

Unfortunately I fear this may indicate my calling in life. Alone, getting paid next to nothing, having a blast torturing kids... But the students have also gone a long way to help teach me things. For example, they have shown me many new and interesting things I can link to (okay, so some of these are old, but still good).

For those die-hard table-top RPG fans, you definitely need to read this.