Bardiac

I saw this over at Reassigned Time , so I got in on the action. It's about the most action I plan to have this New Year's Eve, sinc...

Right now, I can't help wondering how anyone who grows up in this area hasn't lost the tips of all their fingers to frostbite by age...

I've got a number of projects lined up for the break, from taking down a couple of overgrown, nasty bushes to prepping classes, and in b...

I'm reading Patricia Fumerton's Unsettled: The Culture of Mobility and the Working Poor in Early Modern England now. It's fasc...

"It's not too deep. It's a book you can enjoy reading." Please, please, let me escape!

Taking a few days to recharge in the company of family!

No, not really. To be honest, I don't get how people can twitter at work and stuff, or liveblog most stuff. I can't imagine livebl...

Having talked last time about what we were looking for in our interviews and what impressed us, I'd like to talk a little today about wh...

We've started the Basketweaving interview process, and it's been an education. It's really fascinating to see how different peo...

I went to bed this morning but couldn't sleep. I was fretting too much about the grading I have to do. I tried my basic sleep strategi...

I had my car in the shop the other day. It needed an oil change, and this was the first I could get it in. And worse, it had been making a...

One of my students did a presentation today, and did a really fine job. It's so cool to see a student do so well. And when I got home...

As you know if you've ever looked at the description thingy, I teach Shakespeare. I don't teach much later than that. This year, I...

Writing : Small stuff graded and recorded 10/20 final essays grades and recorded To do: 10 more final essays, spread sheet entries Chaucer :...

There was a shake up in one of our programs around campus recently. The English department plays a big part in the program, but it's al...

Here at NWU, we're on a rotation for new computers, every four years or so. For me, that's plenty often enough, since really wordpr...

I remember, the first time I took a course on The Canterbury Tales , how beautifully the prof brought things together at the end, how I coul...

Yesterday, in my first year writing course, we were talking about what they've learned and such in college so far. It's disturbing ...

We just finished talking about the "Second Nun's Tale" in my Chaucer class, a tale that spends a lot of time showing how peopl...

A couple weeks ago, I got an email from someone associated with a local grammar school; evidently someone had invited some military folks to...