Bardiac

I'm defragmenting my home computer. Today, I deleted a game I've played for a long time from my computer, which is why I decided to ...

I consider peer editing pretty darned important in my classes, and I make that clear in my syllabus for each class. And yet, during peer edi...

I'm a crappy teacher. An hour or two ago, my department had a meeting, and several people teaching senior seminars talked about the kind...

I went to a play this evening by my favorite dead playwright, and I enjoyed it lots. Rollicking good fun (no, it wasn't Titus , but tha...

Cruising the blogosphere, I found this abstract linked on Kidneynotes and originally from the journal Contraception . (Though, I have to s...

After all the fun of the REALLY dead women writers meme thing, when I saw this, I thought, "hey, Bardiac, you should post that." ...

The other day in my Chaucer seminar, one of my students was looking at a note in their text, and asked in that totally student way, "wh...

I got an email (copied to all instructors, I think) the other day from a campus dorm organization asking faculty folks to offer up our servi...

According to parish records, William Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616 (he was buried on April 25th). Traditionally, people say he was born...

The FDA recently issued a report saying that marijuana has no medical uses, and no one should bother to research possible medical uses, in d...

I ran my first MA thesis defense today, and it went really well. The student's work was really different and original, to the point wher...

If it's Friday, it must be poetry blogging, or something, right? I give you: Robert Herrick , "The Vine" (from Hesperides pr...

My campus is pretty into faculty student research. The model comes from the sciences, where junior researchers can learn to collect data an...

The Carnival of Feminists XIII is up at I See Invisible People! She included the Really Dead Women Writers meme project!

I expect I've made some mistakes or left some people out. Please feel free to make suggestions for corrections, copy and transmit, trans...

This month's Teaching Carnival is up on A Delicate Boy .

Here's a hat tip to A Day in the Life of a Radical Pharmacy Owner who posted an article from Seattle about " More Immoral Pharmaci...

The CNN Money list of the top jobs in the US . There IS indeed a lot to be said for the flexibility of scheduling many of us have, and the ...

In my last post, I talked a little bit about being in a situation that made me really uncomfortable and wanting to just be somewhere else. ...

I finished doing my taxes the other day. As a result, I felt vaguely virtuous, and went and bought myself new shoes (because the plastic...