Bardiac

I just read that Washoe, the chimp who learned how to sign and taught several other chimps to sign, has died. You may recall that I went to...

I've been tagged by Harmonia's Necklace for the meme started by Pz Myers at Pharyngula to demonstrate evolution in cyberspace. Fir...

I checked my email between classes this morning to find that one of my three hours of meetings scheduled for the afternoon was cancelled. T...

Back when I was on the market, I sure didn't know anything about job wikis; I'm not sure they even existed. But they do now, right?...

A student contacted me to make an appointment the other day. Nothing unusual there. But, this student wants to talk to me about a paper he...

Here's a really good post from Sisyphus at Academic Cog about things you should think about if you're considering grad school, esp...

This week marks the half point of the term, a time to finish up tasks and get ready for the tasks ahead, a time to rethink how things are go...

Today is Saint Crispin's day . Did you remember? In Shakespeare's Henry V , on the eve of the great battle of Agincourt, Henry give...

Sprezzatura, for those of you not obsessed by early modern Europe, is a term that Baldassare Castiglione uses in his The Book of the Courtie...

I was at a smallish meeting about a budget type issue. One of the people at the meeting suggested that a course s/he doesn't teach shou...

I could go the rest of my life without reading that "X is always there for Y" or some variant thereof. What does that mean? ...

I've been listening to Edward Elgar's Enigma variations all evening. I've never really known his music beyond the graduation th...

My fortune cookie fortune tonight: Today brings out the performer and humanitarian in you (in bed). I'm sort of imagining pity sex and ...

My upper level students seem well prepared to talk about texts as written entities; they're less well prepared to talk about plays as pl...

Today our vice chair for undergrad stuffs held an advising session for our majors; a couple of weeks ago, she'd asked for volunteers in ...

Today, from what I've read, is " Blog Action Day ," a day when bloggers are asked to blog about their efforts to make small en...

It's sometimes important to remember that our colleagues are really students at heart. I got an email this morning from a colleague ser...

Okay, so Elizabeth: the Golden Age opened, and do you know where your Bardiac was? Well, not at the opening, alas. But I did go to a mati...

I get so wound up in reading for work, reading and marking essays, reading committee stuff, reading to prep classes, reading criticism and h...

I went for my ride today, down the Joe's River Road and across a double alphabetical county road. There's another county road, sing...