Bardiac

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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Writing in the Office

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I desperately need to write a grant proposal, but I've been procrastinating at home.  So, after not sleeping much last night, I came to ...
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Monday, August 29, 2016

Worth Reading

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The Good Enough Professor has a post up on "Monsters and Mythical Creatures of Higher Education" that's worth reading if you...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016

Other People are Weird

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I invited a new colleague from a different department on campus to stay at my house until their apartment opens up on the fourth.  I was try...
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Friday, August 26, 2016

Gamifying Meetings and Grumpy

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I'll start with the grumpy.  I simply haven't been sleeping well for the past week or so.  It happens sometimes, bad insomnia, and t...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

One of Those...

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I went to a sale on campus of used stuff this morning.  My campus has these sales regularly, sometimes with basic office/building stuff, but...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Program X

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Our contract period started, and lots of friends have already started teaching. My to-do list is a bit overwhelming.  Holy cow! Meetings...
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Monday, August 22, 2016

Solo

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I did a solo kayak paddle yesterday, from a town just up the river, to a little lake-ish area in my little city.  I think it was about fiv...
Friday, August 19, 2016

Syllabus Number Three: Shakespeare Topics

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My topic is geographies.  What I want to do is bring together my interest in physical space/resources, race, ecocriticism. I've mapped...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Violin, Level Two!

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I haven't written about my violin studies lately, but I've been coming along.  Yesterday, I had a sort of "test" to pass f...
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Notorious Blogging!

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Notorious, PhD is blogging again!  Welcome her back :)
Monday, August 15, 2016

Planning Classes - Poetry Time!

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I'm teaching our intro to poetry course for the first time in ages (6 or 7 years).  I think most of my colleagues and I teach it as a sk...
Friday, August 12, 2016

A World Away

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I decided to take a couple days, and drove a long way, to an island in one of the great lakes.  I was only gone for two days, but when I cam...
Wednesday, August 03, 2016

Carrie Furnace Visit

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On the last full day I was in Pittsburgh, we went to the Carrie Furnace.  It's an old steel mill, closed in the 1980s, I think, that...
Sunday, July 31, 2016

On To Gettysburg

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One of the highlights of my visit to Pennsylvania was visiting Gettysburg.  I mostly didn't find it as emotional as, say, the Little Big...
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Monday, July 18, 2016

Pittsburgh History Center

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While I was visiting, I asked my friend about the local history museums and such. So we visited the History Center, and it was GREAT! I ...
Sunday, July 17, 2016

Pittsburgh: My Grandma Grew Up Here

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When I was in Pittsburgh, my Mom texted me to say that my grandmother's family had lived there, and were recorded there in the 1920 cens...
Thursday, July 14, 2016

Pittsburgh!

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It's been a while, but I've been busy. I visited Pittsburgh for the first time, visiting a friend who recently moved there.  Reall...
Sunday, July 03, 2016

Projects!

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I gave the presentation I talked about here .  It went well.  About three weeks before the presentation, I went to visit the venue (it...
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Saturday, June 25, 2016

Sausages Being Made - What Job Candidates Should Know about Notification

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You know there's that old saying about not wanting to know how sausages or laws are made?  So I want to say there's something of t...
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Monday, June 20, 2016

Over My Head

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Way back in April, I agreed to do a talk for a local group connected with a not-quite so local Shakespeare festival, here in town.  We set a...
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Bardiac
I profess literature. More specifically, I'm a feminist, female Shakespearean who also teaches composition regularly, early modern literature, Chaucer on occasion, graduate classes in writing and research, literary theory, poetry, drama. Welcome to my world.

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