My latest self-improvement book

My students frequently complain that I stay up late at night dreaming up fiendishly difficult homeworks and exam questions for them.  To which I reply, I do much of my best work in the morning.  But now I have help and inspiration! 

During a recent visit to the local Barnes and Noble to pick up the latest Erast Fandorin mysteries, my wife spotted Justin Rosenholtz’ delicious little volume, Deliberate Acts of Needless Meanness.  It contains 366 suggestions of creatively mean things to do to friends, family, co-workers, and complete strangers.  Two of my favorites:

Day 78:  Think people are going to look into your medicine cabinet at your next party?  Fill it with marbles, and the first person who snoops will cause a tremendous ruckus…

Day 128:  Don’t you just hate those organized people who like to fold over the end of their Scotch tape roll?  Make it your life’s work to go around with scissors snipping off the ends, so they have to pick away with their fingernails like the rest of us.

How inspirational.