Bardiac

I was at a celebration recently, and hung out with some colleagues from the music department. These are friendly, nice folks, and I was gra...

One of my tasks this year is to be secretary to a legal beagle sort of committee, so today I went to the legal meeting. It's amusing to...

And these meetings were good. Shocking for me to say, but there it is. We met with the new assistant headmaster, who said many things well....

I just finished a meeting for the special programs for entering students thing. That's two hours of my life I won't get back. Did y...

Senator Edward Kennedy died last night. I admired what I understood of Kennedy's legislative abilities and accomplishments. I was happ...

Today was the meetings where big shots talked. We have a campus breakfast, and then the talking begins with thanks to the corporate sponsor...

I'm stuck on a couple of decisions. And when I tell you about these, you'll realize just how dull and unimportant my life is. Heart...

I'm most in touch with my inner beancounter, the part of me that organizes and plans ahead, at this point in the semester. It's sort...

The top of my office desk! I spent part of yesterday cleaning my office up. I got rid of old papers and finals students never picked up. (...

Over in the Underwater Basketweaving department: One of the folks (Joe) hired fifteen or more years ago to teach reed preparation (back whe...

We have an hour and a half session with our Special Program For First Year Students students a day or two before real classes begin. Becaus...

I got an email from one of my favorite administrators* this morning, a mass email offering some overtime appointments (two) to work on revam...

I hate Word. Not words, but the program, Word. I went to the office today to try to rough out the calendar for my writing class. It's ...

I got a polite email the other day from a student asking to be overloaded into a class that's already overloaded. I politely said that ...

My bike's odometer crossed the 5000 mile mark this evening after three seasons of riding. I was on a special, celebratory ride around a...

Prepping for the seminar has gotten really interesting. I'm learning lots, and have backed up to reading Philippe Aries (backwards acce...

You've heard of them, the folks that claim that Barack Obama isn't a US citizen because he was born in Kenya and not in Hawaii. Here...

Sometimes, the web makes things seem much closer. There are people I've only met through some internet this or that, and I feel that I ...

I'be been part of a reading group, a book club, if you will, for a couple years now. Mostly we read pretty good books, and I enjoy them...

I sleep on a futon on a frame; I have since a friend gave me the frame in grad school. In total, I'm maybe 8-12 inches off the floor. G...