Bardiac

Dear Big Shots, Pay your damned taxes. It's NOT that hard! Just keep all your pay stubs (or make a copy of the check if you need to), ...

It's 7:30pm. You know how when you're a kid, it's all about staying up late? I'm thinking about going to bed. Now. What a...

John Updike is, according to the news reports, dead. One of my colleagues sent out an email to everyone in the department to update us abou...

I taught the first session of each of my courses today, and they went pretty well. The drama class students got up and working on a scene b...

I dreamt last night that an English department colleague came to give a guest lecture in the chemistry course I'm teaching. But he was ...

We're going through a process to help decide which programs get to survive the budget cuts, and which don't. It's a huge proces...

Every so often, a state decides it needs an advertising campaign to bring in tourists, attract business, and just try to make all the other ...

I need to learn how to turn. I got started down a hill, and near the end there's a turn, and I was going and then my skis were all movi...

I bought skis (Fischer, Austria), boots (Salomon, French), and poles (Exel, Finland) today. That's what the basic cross country package...

I went to a not-too-far-away city today with a friend, and among other things, stopped in a local used book store. It was a really nice pla...

I've been reading a play I ordered for my drama class. Yes, I'm like that. I ordered the play without reading it first. And now I...

Can we just get the patriarchal sky fairy out of politics? Please? And more Aretha! RESPECT! John Paul Stevens! We have a new Vice Presid...

I'm all emotional these days, just anticipating tomorrow, excited, hopeful. And a little scared. I hope it all goes well. I hope Obam...

I got on the bike/trainer combo last night, so I turned on the TV and found a move. Hey, it's The Last Samurai , and I haven't seen...

I've been waiting on this until the question is well past, so here goes. Imagine you're on a search committee, and someone not on th...

Thanks to all the folks who helped me about the coat size thing. I'm going to return it. I wanted to be all optimistic, but I think you...

The winter coat came today. I tried it on, first with only one layer, and it was a pretty good fit. Then with two layers, and it was a lit...

the perfect syllabus, and some good assignments to go with it. I'm teaching our intro drama course for the first time since about 2000; ...

This morning, on NPR, someone was talking about how it was "freezing" in Washington as some military unit prepared for the inaugur...

You know when you do something new, you sometimes discover that you have muscles you've never much thought about before? I'm at that...