Bardiac

One of my colleagues and I were talking about teaching theory. When I teach our theory course, I start with Marx, then do some Freud (and L...

At some point, I developed a habit of just plugging along reading whatever I was reading until I got to the end, whether I liked it, found i...

I'm just not adjusting to my wonderful new bike as well or fast as I'd hoped. My wrists hurt. I had the handlebar stem thing chang...

Recently, I checked in on a message board of some folks I used to hang with in an mmorpg and saw that someone had left me a message talking ...

Having gotten my book orders in yesterday, I was dismayed, but not surprised, to start getting notes from the bookstore today. One book see...

I finally got my rear in gear and got my book orders done. Unfortunately, that made me realize that I'm going to be teaching a bunch of...

Recently, a non-English department hired a new faculty member with a trailing spouse who happens to have a phud in English, and cooperativel...

Some stuff accomplished: *Made some appointments I've been putting off. *Took a mower in to be fixed after I couldn't get it started...

My first! It was perched on a small trellis I have for a deck planter. It stayed there a bit, quite courteously, I thought, so I could hav...

Hey Folks, It's time to update the blog list on the sidebar. Alas, some of the links are long dead. If you want me to add you, please l...

Horace over at To Delight and Instruct has put together a compendium of "must reads" for graduate students . Good stuffs!

Big Business I got a call again on Monday from one of my credit card companies, Urbi-Finance, complaining that I owed them money. Ugh, I th...

One of my friends has helped me several times now choosing plants for my garden, advising me on putting them in, and so forth. F and I firs...

I had cause to read a colleague's article proposal and talked to him about it recently. The article was about a short story by an autho...

I have some good friends, most of whom are very willing to put up with my foibles, and even encourage me. One of these friends agreed to do...

I have a small, ugly, little block suet feeder cage hanging on a trellis where I can see it from where I sit to use the computer. This morn...

I've been getting notes for a couple months now that I owed a fine to the library for a book I didn't return. I've searched my ...

So I went to get my eyes checked today. I had eye surgery about ten years ago now, so of course I told the medical assistant/nurse (she did...

Every so often, I read a blog post and find myself nodding along enthusiastically. Terminal Degree wrote just such a post today, about wor...

I finished The Omnivore's Dilemma (by Michael Pollan) last night. It was fascinating! I found the corn section the most compelling be...