Bardiac

Our writing center is doing a faculty retreat this week.  It started at 9:30 on Tuesday, and runs to 2pm, every day except Friday, when it e...

My lower division course on early Brit Lit had low, low enrollment, so I got reassigned to an Intro to Lit course.  I was expecting it, and ...

I finished grading and submitted grades. I was in the office for a fair bit this morning, and almost no one else was around.  That's f...

The universal feeling around here right now. It's weird when it's hard to start a new pile even though you've made decent prog...

We have a small MA program here at NWU, and the colleague who's been ill has been teaching a course, and since we're sort of in the ...

As I mentioned a long time ago, I used to play Everquest.  A lot.  (Way too much.  True.) I'm still in touch with a couple of people I...

Taken Saturday, May 16, 2015.  (This is more for me than for you folks.)

Here's a Red-Headed Woodpecker.  I also saw my first Bobolink today, and got a couple of very blurry pictures.

I took a road trip of sorts last week, and did some birding.  And saw some nice birds.     Here's a Solitary Sandpiper:    ...

It's the last day of teaching for me this semester. I still have one more class to teach, very shortly, but it's the class I'm...

I was chatting with a HS student the other day, and they told me that they'd been learning about normal curves in math, and the math tea...

One of my colleagues has been pretty ill.  As I understand it (and I'm the wrong sort of doctor), it's an acute illness, one they...

I went to a meeting with the Headmaster and my college the other day to hear the latest news on the budget crisis.  One problem is that we r...

So much to learn, always.  This is, I think, a Wilson's Snipe, though one of my bird books calls it a Common Snipe (apparently, the bi...

It's that time of the semester when everything is overwhelming; there's so much work to do, and yet it's spring and what I reall...

I went to give blood today during some unscheduled time. The phlebotomist was all chattery, about nothing really, but seriously, I couldn...

In fall 2013, I decided to plant some crocus bulbs in a pattern on my lawn.  Here's a post about it  the next spring, when things were c...

I just learned that one of my friends in administration at another school has lost their job due to the budget cuts. Back when I first got...

This weekend, while I was out walking around looking at birds, I was also looking at garbage.  And picking it up.  Without wandering from my...

I went out and birded a grassy area today and saw my first Savannah Sparrows (many of them, here's one, in two shots), and some Sandhil...