currently thinking
November 9, 2004
please please do not ever use these phrases in your writing: "for obvious reasons;" "it is painfully obvious that;" "obviously."
the reasons are only going to be obvious to three other people and perhaps your mother, leaving everyone else in the complete dark.
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Yep. That's always worth at least half a mark off when I'm marking physics assignments. A full mark if I'm feelin' ornery.