Bardiac

Let's put this in non-English terms. We have a deepwater basketweaving specialty area within our underwater basketweaving department. D...

So close, and yet so far. If I'd only had a bit more nerve, I could have held on without touching the brakes a bit longer. And if I...

Meetings and more meetings. Meetings about meetings. I feel like I've had so much information tossed at me, with few connections or in...

This week is full. Today's morning meeting was mostly interesting, though there was no coffee, and I was working on short caffeine (my ...

I got one of those emails from a student the other day, explaining that s/he was going to be away for a couple weeks during the semester, an...

Last night, my athletic team went for a team dinner (with family folks) to a pizza place an hour or so outside of town (good pizza is worth ...

If you're in Shakespeare studies or a related field, you probably already know about the petition to reinstate Patricia Parker's con...

Sometimes, I get my hopes up, and then they get dashed. Sometimes, I get my hopes up about utterly inconsequential stuff, and then they get...

I got an email the other day from a student asking to be added to my senior seminar as an overload. The email talked about the special situ...

I did Safe Space training today. It's the first time our campus has had Safe Space training, and I'm a little excited that we had ...

When I started teaching, we all kept things in physical files. You know, those paper manila thingies that look like file icons, but way big...

Sometimes, I have to laugh at myself. Big speeches this morning. Hope and despair, all in one. The state's broke, the job outlook for ...

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty...

Last year, I complained about the sorts of speakers we were bringing to campus, the Hollywood-has-beens talking about drinking, the child of...

Today's the start of the new contract period, and when I looked at my email this morning, it looked like a bunch of people had been just...

Now that the pressure is off, I've been reflecting on the Macbeth experience a bit. I think most Shakespeare folks think about how the ...

I went to see the play last night, and it worked! Scenes where no one was really reacting during rehearsal somehow came together, and the ac...

The Shakespeare camp production opens this evening, and I have high hopes. Last night, I was a bit worried, but after seeing today's dr...

Hell is, according to Macbeth. My mind sometimes, too. Theaters seem to share the dimness, and during rehearsals, utter chaos, at least to ...

I'm a little dissatisfied with the way my teaching is going at the Shakespeare camp. It's not that I'm doing a bad job, but the...