Bardiac

If you've read more than a couple academic blogs, you've read about how we find certain student actions really frustrating. The stud...

I'm doing a panel thing this afternoon, so I've been thinking about what to say and how to contribute well to the panel. What I...

I won a contest !!!! Over at Styley Geek !!!! It was a caption the picture contest . I'm weirdly excited about this. The news certain...

Last night's theater group work for the play was to work on character development. As I've mentioned, I tend to think of dramatic ch...

One of the great pleasures of working in my new (since summer) office in the afternoon comes from casual chats with my colleague in the next...

The word of the day is " Gobo ." ( Pictures ! And more pictures !) Today, the stage, lighting, and costume design folks came in ...

Random bullets of vacation goodness! *I thumbnailed a flea. I either got it from playing with my handyman's dog, or picked it up while w...

One of our newish administrators bought a house recently, and didn't buy it in the 'Hood. The 'Hood in Northwoods is the neighbo...

The news this week has been sad and worse. News came to us of a terrible traffic accident in which one of our students died. Another stude...

Yesterday, I traveled a bit, by car, stopping at a couple places because I had some time. I saw a bunch of turkeys, as in a veritable thanks...

I spent the first couple of days of our break visiting my sibling, the Most Wonderful In Law, and their kids. MWIL is an enabler extraordina...

We're on break now, but when we come back, my collaborative project with my theater colleague will get even more interesting for me. Fir...

I got emails recently from an organization called "backupyourbirthcontrol dot org" telling me that March 20th is "back up you...

I went out to dinner the other night with a friend. You have to sort of picture this. I have this wagon. In this area, pretty much every wom...

One of the fascinating things I'm learning working with a colleague in theater is how we think about staging and texts. Happily, the per...

Last night, at some point, I decided that I'd sleep through the morning, through all my classes, just sleep. This is not my habit, but ...

For the past several weeks, I filled in for a colleague teaching an extra five-hour a week class. Five hours taken by itself sounds like not...

I went to the third job talk so far for a job we're trying to fill. Happily, the candidate did not show us a bulleted powerpoint present...

It's supposed to get into the 40s (F, that's 4.44 something in C, which frankly seems way colder) again today. Yesterday, I was hunk...

This week seems to be the week of just not knowing. I went to two job talks, trying to think about which candidate would be the best choice....