Since my summer course ended last Friday, six of the students have been trying to access the course blog in search of new lectures.

Curiously, these students are the ones who received an A in the course.

That’s how you know good students: they don’t stop learning after a course ends and the final grades are in.

I just discovered that sleeping 4  hours a day six days a week and then making up for lack of sleep by sleeping all day long on Saturday is not the most brilliant idea I’ve ever had. It turns out that this regimen (that I’ve maintained for thirteen years, by the way) is not good for my health. Not only can generating a “sleep debt” cause anxiety and weight gain, it also can compromise one’s immunity, exacerbate psychological problems, and give one very tiresome, detailed and complicated dreams. I now understand why I’ve been tortured by such dreams all these years.

So I’m thinking I should reconsider this system. Which has made me wonder what people normally do about sleep. I don’t mean the parents of small children who have to take the few opportunities they get to sleep whenever they can. I want to ask those of my readers who actually do have a choice of when to sleep the following questions:

– when do you normally go to sleep?

– do you go to sleep at about the same time every day? Does the time vary based on whether it’s a work day or a weekend?

– how many hours do you normally sleep each night?

So do you remember the bad student who asked me for a letter of recommendation to graduate school (of a very prestigious university, as it turned out)? This blog’s readers were kind enough to help me write the letter, which is why I thought they would be interested in finding out how things went.

On my readers’ advice, I wrote something like, “Dear student, I have a policy only to write recommendation letters for students who received grades of A and B in my courses. Since the last two grades you got with me were “F”, I will not be able to recommend you for graduate studies. I suggest you get in touch with a professor who is more acquainted with your strengths than I am.”

In response, the student wrote, “It’s OK, you can still write the letter. Here is the form you will need to fill out.”

As we say in my culture, arrogance is a substitute for happiness.

No, seriously, why?

Here is yet another idiotic article by some illiterate fool who argues that tenure should be abolished and al professors should concentrate more on grading.

We are all to blame that such stupid freaks exist. We are afraid of hurting their feelings and never tell them that they are stupid, brainless cockroaches who should shut up and go kill themselves against a wall.

And then I get criticized for telling idiots that they are idiots in no uncertain terms on my blog. No, people, I know I’m completely right when I eviscerate every stupid creature who comes here to say stupid things on my blog. They don’t care about my feelings when they publish garbage and spread around their stupid beliefs, so why should I give a crap about theirs?

Is there anybody here that can tell me when was the last time you heard or read that a Pharma company has come [up] with something that cures a disease?  I’ll give you 100 Euro right now if you tell me. They don’t cure anything, they make you sick.
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All of the drugs out there are useless. They are garbage. They don’t work, they give you serious side effects – and eventually many of them kill you.
John Virapen
former manager of the pharmaceutical companies Eli Lilly (1980 to 1988 Managing Director) and Novo Nordisk 

Exactly. Why try to cure anybody when it is a lot more profitable to get life-long patients?

I remember a doctor who was shocked that I wasn’t on any prescription medication other tan birth control at 32. I was shocked that he was shocked.