1. Our college is "bricky"--not that there's anything wrong with that!
2. No matter how I dress for a long meeting, at some point I'll be either too hot or too cold. Yesterday I was both.
3. The pandemic is coming! The pandemic is coming! Whatever you do, don't panic!
4. No matter how many times I see "health care" written as "healthcare," I can't get used to it. When did the phrase become one word?
5. And don't even get me started on "wellness."
6. The Law of Conservation of Curmudgeonliness* continues to work: the retirement of an old fart creates a vacuum into which a somewhat less old faculty member is inexorably sucked. There's nothing like an all-day meeting to reveal the identity of the new suckees.
7. Good things will happen this year! Or else!
*Clarification: this law works at a variety of speeds depending on the amount of suction; sometimes a new curmudgeon is sucked into the role immediately after a retirement, and sometimes the process takes months or years. Therefore, it is difficult for outside observers to detect the line from the retiring curmudgeon to the replacement.
My current peeve is the verb problem-solve. "Let's problem-solve this." Why create a new word when a perfectly appropriate phrase already exists? Problem-solving the adjective, yes. Problem-solve the verb, no, no, a thousand times no.
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