Day 5 Dispatch from the #WriMo Zone #nablopomo

about this number…in mathematics Five is a Fermat prime and conjectured to be the only odd untouchable number, a Fibonacci and rife with religious and cultural symbolism.

For updating ease during or at the end of the day, I will list blog posts du jour at the end of this post. Speaking of history and protest, which I do on several other blogs, November 5 is also Guy Fawkes Night

Since the release in 2006 of the film V for Vendetta, set in a dystopian United Kingdom, the use of the "Guy Fawkes" mask that appears in the film has become widespread internationally among anti-establishment protest groups. The illustrator of the comic books on which the film was based, David Lloyd, has stated that the character V decided "to adopt the persona and mission of Guy Fawkes – our great historical revolutionary".

The Economist explains "How  Guy Fawkes Became the Face of Post-Modern Protest"

Also on this day ~ November 5 ~ in history: 

• George Foreman becomes oldest heavyweight champ in history, 1994
• Nixon wins presidential election, 1968
• FDR re-elected president,1940
• George Selden patents gas-powered car, 1895
• King James learns of gunpowder plot, 1605
• Mughal victory assures Akbar's ascension, 1556

As for blogging du jour, the original work-around purpose of this series:

• UK @unisontweets marking #boycott as #academicprotest « @GdnHigherEd #NAWD  ~ Precarious Faculty (Tumblr)
• Precarity Dispatches — Joe Berry's November 5, 2014, #COCAL Updates #NAWD links 
• NAWD links from the #BigRedA is for #Adjunct ~ precarious faculty

Day 4 in the #WriMo Zone: #PSLF Rules comment, apology memes

…zip blog posts (unless I post something late after finishing here), zip #digiwrimo, plenty of writing but zip #nanowrimo, some Facebook, way too much email ~ managing, deleting, filing and writing. In other words, today was a real zippity not do damn all day

Today's main contribution to any real or imagined❛greater good❜was commenting on proposed "rule-making committee to prepare proposed regulations governing the Federal William D. Ford Direct Loan (Federal Direct Loan) Program." Why was it important? Student loan debt, income based repayment programs, Public Service Loan Forgiveness. The comment was harder to write than I expected., especially after reading so much about the topic and so many other comments. The more you know, the less sense it makes. I did it anyway. That was probably what made an otherwise lost day worth getting up for, along with Bill Lipkin's video clip and the dozen eggs Kay brought. OK but I still felt like walking out on all the blogs and all the #wrimo, even 10 years of NaNoWriMo. Just one of those days. Tomorrow will be another.

In case you need to apologize for something you are not really sorry about, this page is very handy. Better than emoji: