Bardiac

Today I don't teach. I have a ton of grading to do, but it's flexible, so I decided to do my political research and go vote (it...

What a pain! I always get an error with it at least once, and often more than once (at which point I give up, sorry). But it doesn't se...

How do you know if what you're dreaming has meaning, and what sorts of meaning it has? And how do you convince anyone else of the validi...

Some numbers rolled across my desk today, and though I'm not deeply in touch with my inner bean counter, I found them interesting. In te...

The local clinic finally put up their flu shot schedule, so now I have to decide whether I should bother. For the past several years, I...

You know how when you open up a page, especially a blogger's page, and see an extreme close-up of a person, either a baby, kid, or the b...

I went to a play last night with some friends. It was a pretty good play, overall. The acting was pretty good, though the dialog was slowe...

I just graded a midterm, and the class did great overall. They made good connections with the material, wrote pretty well, and just rocked ...

Question of the day: this assistant coach (basketball) contributes more to the mission of education at Kansas State thank how many associa...

Alas, the perfect midterm is something will never be found, but might, at best, be approximated at a moment in time. I haven't gotten t...

When I talk to some colleagues and read some blogs, there are a couple questions I always want to ask, but I know you're not allowed. At...

Hat tip to the Seacoast of Bohemia ! How often has someone actually asked a Shakespeare scholar anything rather than just tossing off Shakes...

In my junior level course today, my students, all English majors, couldn't give even a basic, working definition of "ideology,...

It's Sunday afternoon, and three of us are in the hallway. Two of us are working separately on our parts of the same thing. The other ...

Come play. It's not really cold out here... come play! It could snow any day... come play! You know you want to! It's sunny out, and...

I did it! I hit a 17 mph average for 18 miles today (just got it as I was coming to the first of many slow downs in the last two miles of m...

Since Sisyphus was kind enough to ask, here's the handout I give when I start teaching explications. (And I can always use help making ...

I'm not the brightest light on my family tree, alas, and when I'm trying to learn something, I usually need a couple tries. I need ...

I'm almost caught up on my grading. But I get a new stack tomorrow, another Friday, and another Monday. Why do I do this to myself? I...

I gave my first year writing students their first graded paper today. Let's just say that it wasn't universal cheers and happiness. ...