Bardiac

I don't know why, but I've had real trouble motivating myself to finish prepping my classes and get the syllabi and calendars done. ...

I went to a meeting of an administrative unit I'm part of on Tuesday afternoon.  There's a new administrator administrating, and to ...

I was at a meeting today with lots of other people, and a few minutes towards the end was devoted to celebrating 50 years of this and that, ...

Today felt like I was just running and running in place. At about 8am, I started in on a project, which absolutely has to be done tomorrow...

Sometimes the whole world just seems horrible, doesn't it? It's seemed that way for the past ten days or so, to me. On the othe...

Seriously, we need to use this one lots! I've never heard it before, but I've often wanted it. And how come many people know th...

My young relative is off to college, so I sent a box of dorm supplies, including a set of Cards Against Humanity. Does that make me a cool...

We've already started working on job ad language.  I have a feeling that there's stuff in the ads that no one applying really worrie...

It's time to schedule big committee business, and since I'm chairing one, I get to try to set up meeting times. I started with a m...

One of my young kin posted in effbee recently about the new Godzilla movie and how excited he was about it, sharing a picture from it.  In ...

Yesterday, I was doing the catch up and make sure all the bills are paid on-line thing, and there was an alert message at the top that said ...

I went camping yesterday.  I went up to an island park, complete with my car packed full.  How full?  I think the Lewis and Clark expediti...

I just got a very polite email from a student requesting the reading assignments for a course. (It so happens that I'm not teaching th...

I'm chairing a committee again this coming year, a committee that handles certain sorts of departmental stuff.  Earlier this summer, I g...

Here it is at this article from a UVA publication . This would be helpful to show parents of prospective/current students, and students, t...

I accomplished that goal I had to bike either my age in years (miles) or a metric century (100 kilometers, or just over 62 miles).  (I als...

I dreamt I was back to high school last night. In the early part of the dream, I visited a HS classroom as an observer, and there was some...

I love getting a new calendar (I use academic year calendars) and putting in all the important dates and stuff.  It just feels so hopeful so...

I've been trying to ride my bike a bit, so I'm slightly sore in the legs, not enough to make it hard to sleep, but enough to be awar...

I started reading a book for fun last night, something that's rarer than you might thing.  For some reason yesterday, I wanted to try ...