Bardiac

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

Notorious, PhD is blogging again!  Welcome her back :)

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...