I have to pinch myself just to make sure I am still alive and not in academic heaven. I am teaching this course on problem solving and somehow we are now writing science fiction stories – its a partnership with Professor Kelly Swartz science fiction class. So I spent the last day reading drafts these amazing stories by my students. They are funny, smart, and interesting. Honestly I am quite blown away by them. They are still in draft form so they require some TLC to get them to the finish line. So here I was giving comments to these amazing authors. Talk about things I never thought would happen! I am the worst writer ever… Here are just a handful of my comments. Some of which are pretty funny.

This was a great job on the draft.  You should see what people say about my drafts.  Keep working hard this story has a lot of potential.

Seriously this physics teacher would be having roasted crab on a fire I some how started.  Or worms.  Seriously worms are 1. easy to find 2.  great source of protein and 3.  Don’t taste that bad if you eat them quickly (I have eaten many a worm in my day.)

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later in the story…

Worms over grapefruit any day of the week!

Other comments:

Astronomy students go to graduate school not medical school. 

One story was talking about a delusion where they meet up with their “ex-girlfriend”. I wanted to say those are worst kinds of “delusions” but I refrained.

Perfect!  We need more alien henchmen in our lives!

wow!  That escalated a little too quickly.  Maybe too much

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!  This is so funny.  Though as a nerd, I am a little offended.

wasn’t everyone already dead from the tsunami?

This seems like topics for book seven and eight of your amazing story/series and not additional information for chapter one.

Life tips I have learned from law and order: never trust your drug dealer.

In response to aliens taking us over to open a trade route with us:

We are capitalist all they had to do was ask.

I also had had to teach about guano, of course.