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Some days, blog fodder is very topical and cohesive. It just seems to jump right up and bite you on the fall into your lap and you are a fool if you do not use it pretty much obligated to go with it.

It could be that you were walking around town and couldn't pass up taking pictures of some purple buildings. Or maybe you finally broke a blog curse and posted pictures of a finished Dishcloth (with sleeves) that is both wearable and actually fits the intended wearer. Or maybe your kid did something truly hysterical over the weekend. Or maybe something really funny happened at work or at the store. These are the sort of things that make really good blog fodder. Not using them would be morally objectionable really dumb positively wasteful.

Other days, blog fodder is pathetically thin on the keyboard. You wander through the entire day hoping that something somewhat blogworthy will occur but it doesn't happen. Those are the days that you think about posting. You really want to post but you remember that old adage, if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all, and realize that, for bloggers, it should read, if you can't say something that remotely resembles interesting, shut up try posting tomorrow.

Still other days are the ones where vaguely interesting things happened over the course of the day, but each of those occurrences were pretty minor when considered individually. Trying to collect them together into some kind of organized fashion is challenging in the best case and thoroughly confusing in the worst. What is a blogger to do in order to prevent the worst case scenario of manufacturing a monumentally mystifying morass of disorganization? Ah, I shall reveal to you the deepest secret of the blogsphere tell you: a blogger can slap together pull them together as Wednesday Afternoon Bullet Points.

• That was an amazingly long introduction for such a small group of Bullet Points.



• I really should be excused the long introduction, though, because I wrote it while proctoring tests this morning.



• My students had a lecture material test today and their grades were absolutely abysmal.



• Captain Obvious came by to tell us that we are at the end of the semester.



• The students who had A averages coming into today's class were allowed to take next week's exam a week early. I allowed students who did not have A averages to take the exam early if and only if they scored 100 on the practice test.



• Half of my eight o'clock class took home As this morning. Of the other half, four students are taking the test next week and three others did not bother to come to school at all today.



• The grades for my later class were slightly lower overall but I did not have to issue any Fs and so we call it a success and move on.



• Do you remember the Student For Whom I Had No Papers from last week? He had to take both of his tests today because he has to be in court next week. I thought that he meant he was called up for jury duty.



• He wasn't. He has to appear in court. After class, he felt the need to explain to me precisely why he has to appear in court next week.



• My head is still reeling from the level of TMI involved.



• SFWIHNP is about half my age and a much wilder edition of late adolescence than I ever was and I still haven't figured out why he feels the need to confide in me. Truly, I do not. It isn't as if I asked. In fact, I tried to get out of today's dose of TMI.



• It did not work.



• Days like today, I really wish there was an fdisk utility which could be executed on certain portions of the human brain because I really would prefer to forget SFWHINP's recent misadventures and need to appear before the local representatives of the judicial system.



• I get to visit Dr PreciousMetal this evening. The tree pollen population is calming down a wee bit and I am hopeful that I will be seeing a happy doctor tonight.

Well, that's about all I have for this afternoon.

I think maybe I'll go research the availability and possible hazardous side-effects of a biological fdisk utility now. Can't be worse than the sedative effects of the various antihistamines, now, can it?