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Notes by Saethelred the Unsteady | export

 Yesterday, I made sure to explain to my students *very* clearly that if I win the lottery, they will never see me again 
 Me: *checks state of world*
Me: this is too depressing and awful, I’ll throw myself into my work
Me: *checks state of work*
Me: uh oh 
 Me: *tries to do everything right, goes unnoticed and unrewarded*

Sitting US Senator: *is released on bond* 
 Anyone out there feeling they should have been more successful and that their parents and all the adults that knew them as children sometimes say to each other, “yeah, not sure what happened there?” 
 Breaking: Senator Mitt Romney announces that now that it can no longer endanger his political career, he and his publisher are ready to profit from revealing damning details about the GOP in a new book 
 Don’t worry, drug companies. No one who has taken the crap you sold  it in could reasonably have thought phenylephrine works.