ION, did anyone see RAINES last night? Still liking it a lot.

A professor's favorite letter from a student:

My Teacher,

I appreciate you taking your inconvenience to instruct us but I really had some problems in your class and I would like to explain them to you now. Every day I wanted to discuss with you about the way you grade my papers and the way you teach the class, but I could not because the things you say in class and your words disturb me so much I can not. You make me completely uncomfortable with the little things you say in the class like how you talk about television or how you talk about when you are grading our papers and trying to be fair. You do not seem to care about our grades only that they are up to your too high standards and I can not talk to you because you make me completely uncomfortable. For example, you say you will talk to us about our grades but you really will not because of how uncomfortable you make me feel with your words and what you say.

I will plan to contest the grade you have given me in this class when I get it because I know it will be much higher with any other teacher. I am a very religious man and you are not a bad person but you do not choose your words with enough care like a teacher should. You try to be objective and the very attempt becomes your flaw because you try so hard to grade fairly and comment wisely that you become biased to your own ideas. You criticize our writings because we are college students and young but do not realize that you offend most of us when you do this. I am always offended when I go to your class and have been on many occasions but I never tell you of my offense because you make me completely uncomfortable so I never say a word.

The letter goes on for another four paragraphs. And that's the redacted version the prof posted....

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Damn, I missed it! I hope they rerun it this weekend, if not, I'll be looking it up online.

I had a wonderful birthday present to me this this morning--I weighed myself, and I'm under 400 pounds!!!!!!! So, I've officially lost 60 pounds since I started this diet/exercise program on January 8th. Yay for a 41-year-old me! Next goal--340 by the end of July.

Now, if I could get the saggy upper arms to not sag...

Go Kathy!

I am always offended when I go to your class and have been on many occasions but I never tell you of my offense because you make me completely uncomfortable so I never say a word.

Well, somebody flunked Commas 101, that's for sure.

Wow, Kathy, that's a lot of difference! That's a third grader!

Yay, Kathy!

Painted Cats

Thankfully, this is a hoax.

Yay Kathy!

And that student sounds exactly like a student I had last semester! Holy crap!

Go Kathy! That's really terrific!

At first, I wondered if the student's first language was not english, but there are too many idioms in there.