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I'm still sick, so I thought I'd make a list of things I want to write about as a quasi table of contents. This isn't anything definitive, but it may help me later when I'm trying to think up a topic.

* A bit about I had a fever dream in which Donald Trump quotes terrorized me (I'm not making that up).
* Something about dinosaurs.
* Writing swear words (since my post about swearing got the most views and conversations about it)
* Talk about race
* Talk about Zootopia, which is also talking about race
* Think about Batman V. Superman and why I don't think it's as big of a train wreck as others likely do.
* Another gush piece about Shakespeare.
* Something about Milton
* Memories of people whom I ought to forgive but, all these years later, still struggle to.
* Why I like poetry.
* What I do as a teacher that I like.
* What I do as a teacher that I don't like.
* Another video game post, maybe about why I liked the ending of Mass Effect 3 (another of my unpopular opinions type posts)
* Why, surprisingly, I love the play Hamilton.

So, yeah. That's enough for half a month. We'll see how many of those get written.

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