Bardiac

I'm a bit late about Thanksgiving, but I was busy spending my time being thankful. I never wanted a child, but I'm really happy to b...

Way back in the stone ages, when I was a grad student, I learned that it was illegal to do several things on the English stage. First, you ...

We talked about the magic mitten of grain multiplication in class today. Could my life be better? It's only the second recorded use of ...

After a tough week, I had a great weekend. It was warm enough to get out on my bike, so I did. I layer up, and since it was the first week...

I spent about 5 hours yesterday working through files for the Underwater Basketweaving search because we decided at our meeting earlier in t...

I went to a "webinar" today, a web-based "seminar" supposedly to help faculty teach more effectively. There's someth...

I met with a new advisee today; we had a good meeting. S/he's in a good position to take some good courses and do well, sounds interest...

I was having a conversation the other day with Super Rad, one of my colleagues who's just too radical and cool for school, if you know w...

I grew up on M*A*S*H* . The series lasted through my teen years, and into my Peace Corps service. I remember talking about it obsessively ...

I got a call earlier this term from a colleague in a tangentially related department, and by tangentially I mean during Shakespeare's da...

My first year students continue to impress me. This week we're having conferences about their research papers; it's early in the pr...

Today is committee work day, oh joy. For one committee, I need to review some reviews in order to review the review process, so that we can...

I left work last evening without having finished prepping the tale for this morning's Chaucer class, so of course I woke up with a night...

I heard a rumor that Obama was carrying a book of Derek Walcott's poetry around. Imagine, a president who can read something more than ...

I've begun to notice that the more a student complains in his/her paper about the unfairness about the way grades were calculated in hig...

Nothing says "Don't Shoot!" quite like a bright orange jersey, right? It's not actually blaze orange, alas, but something...

I was reading Michael Berube's latest post today (sorry, don't know how to do that diacritical marks), where he talks about operati...

At the beginning of the semester, in all but my first year writing class, I hand out all the assignment information so that a student who re...

Part of my awe about our electing Barack Obama comes from the fact that he's the first high stakes public office-holder from my generati...

Just, wow... I'm awed in all sorts of ways.