# of ComLaw midterms graded:  64 Average grade for Q1:  1.6/5 Average percent grade for Q1 so far: 32% [Update: As of 7pm VN time, I've now graded 75 and am done for the night. Average grade is now 1.7/5. Woo-hoo! We're up a tenth of a point! (But still 8 tenths of a point [...]

Below is the question I drafted for our first ComLaw midterm and am currently grading.  I’ve graded about 25 so far and they are pretty bad overall.  We had a relatively low failure rate last semester, but based on what I’ve seen so far, it’s going to be much higher this semester – at least [...]

My friend Bart’s Aunt Margery made it back to Atlanta safely and sent us some photos from our dinner at Tib last week. Thao and Margery: The Good Doctor Roundeye and Margery: Working my magic for the ladies: Aunt Margery if you read this, we’re glad you made it back and thanks for sending the [...]

Time:  7:45pm # of ComLaw midterms graded so far:  0 # of 2-hour naps:  1 # of Call of Duty games on Xbox Live:  4

This looks like a bad Saturday Night Live skit, but as far as I can tell, it’s legit: Not really sure why the guitarist thought it would be a good idea to attend the video shoot in sock feet, but whatever.  He does lay down some bad licks at about the 1:30 point. *Note:  Does [...]

It’s 1:23pm on Saturday here – I just finished teaching my ComLaw class and am about to head home.  I’ve still got work to do – have about 270 or so ComLaw midterms to grade.  Going to try to do around 50 a day – so it will be a few days before I’m finished. [...]

My friend Robin, who manages my favorite Indian restaurant here in Saigon, recently entered a contest (sponsored in part by my other friend, Tim, who owns the gym equipment import company) to see who could improve their body the most over a three-month period. Here’s Robin’s “before” picture three months ago: And here’s his “after” [...]

Well, I think I’ve finally turned a corner, reached a plateau, broken new ground, etc., as far as teaching goes.  Based on my experience, I think there must be a pattern where when people first start teaching they really want to be a friend to their students, to be easygoing with them, to not have [...]

Well, the students in our volunteer group didn’t like my idea of the raised fist against the Vietnam flag.  They said it looked:  (a) like something an old person would like; (b) like something the government would like; and (c) like we were trying to start a revolution.  They’re probably right on all counts. We’ve [...]

The RMIT Community Action Network has been officially approved as the name for our new community service club. (Actually, there’s one more person who needs to sign off on it, but he’s kind of a higher-level dude who probably really doesn’t care what the name of our little club is – so since the other [...]