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I just sent off my SAA paper, HOURS before the deadline!

In her dissent on Yates v. United States , Justice Kagan writes (page 2 of her dissent): And here I was excited to cite Monty Python...

I'm chairing this committee for the second year, and there's a task which is sort of on the back burner; it's not part of our pr...

I just finished participating in my first ever on-line course, a MOOC, basically, from Stanford, on "Digging Deeper: Making Manuscripts...

I feel like there are so many balls flying above my head.  Disaster threatens.  The biggest disaster is that I expected a good old boy to ...

I've been working pretty well on my SAA paper for a couple of months, but really, the hard writing part has been in the past few days, b...

The headmaster appointed an emergency team (35 people) to make recommendations to help deal with the budget emergencies, and only after some...

Confessions of a Community College Dean has a post up today on varying organizations of first year Comp courses.  And it got me thinking, n...

I was at a brainstorming meeting, and one of my faculty colleagues suggested that we should all reorganize and refocus all our studies.  Coi...

One of my friends/colleagues over in Underground Basketweaving just told folks that zie is leaving for another job. And so it begins.

I just got the bill for the appointments about my ringing ears. I had an appointment with a primary care doctor (a family practice doctor)...

Things are dismal around here.  If you saw my facebook feed, full of all sorts of dismal news, political, from friends' personal lives, ...

This is how it goes. A student came in to do her oral quiz for Chaucer, where the student reads a short passage aloud, and then does a qui...

I met with a faculty member in a totally different department yesterday to talk about a small, time-limited project we want to collaborate o...

I usually check my email on the ipod while I'm still in bed, as part of the turning off the wake up alarm process.   This morning, I che...

This morning, I got a later than usual start, so it was about mid-morning when I chanced through my bathroom again, and happened to catch si...

In the midst of doom and gloom, one of my colleagues shared a smart idea yesterday that could make things a little better around here. We...

What text am I teaching?  Bonus questions:  what other important texts/images does the image maybe refer to?  Super Bonus question: W...

I've been reading a history of the Middle Ages, starting in about 300 BC, and ending about 1500.  I was looking for something else in th...

In response to the social discourse these days about how little faculty folks work, one of my colleagues has come up with a brilliant idea. ...