Bardiac

I got an email survey from the campus folks responsible for educating us about alcohol. I think my students are plenty aware of alcohol, bu...

I've had two interesting student visits so far this week. The other day, a student came in again after a year or so; he was in my writin...

I spent way too much time today trying to schedule a meeting. Yep, I'd scheduled a room almost three weeks ago for this meeting, and go...

Okay, no more whining! In George Peele's Edward I , what's up with Elinor sinking into the earth? And then floating up again, to d...

As folks who read this blog know, I'm somewhat ambivalent about the Northwoods. I'm uncomfortable with the conservativism, the over...

I celebrated the day after by dropping in to give blood. I'm told they need donors especially during the holiday season. This is proba...

Let's just say, if the continuation of the human species depended on me, a lot of wildlife would breathe a sigh of relief. Seriously, I ...

Every so often, I notice that someone on campus looks very much like someone quite famous. For example, we have a famous sports lookalike (...

Today, I had the opposite of the difficult discussion I last blogged about. First, a student who's paper is sort of tangential to the cl...

My student looked away and hesitated, and I knew the question to come. "What would I have to get on the final essay to pass the course?...

I was in the lunchroom the other day, eating, while one of my colleagues decided to hold forth on how the world should be run, specifically,...

I read a lot of inane student emails, and a fair number of posts from profs talking about their students' emails. But today, today I go...

Reading a student paper about a movie set in the 1980s, and realizing that to the student, the clothing and everything else from the 80s rea...

I finished some committee work today. At least the part I need to have finished. Now I need to grade. And grade. And grade some more. Th...

I've been conferencing with students from my various classes about research projects and papers of various sorts this week. Mostly, the ...

The support services side of campus does these programs that are supposed to help us learn to teach. They send us emails with hints; the hi...

I just got an email from a colleague in response to some work the committee I chair has done. Undercutting and wonderfully nasty, and perfe...

The weekend list: 1 Stack of writing stuff 1 Stack of essays (These were mostly good! It's so much less torturous to grade good essay...

I've been working on procrastinating less this semester. So here I am, blogging. Yes, I'm aware, thanks. For one thing, thinking a...

It's almost 7pm on Saturday, and here's how the weekend roundup list is going so far: 1 Stack of writing stuff 1 Stack of essays 1 p...