Bardiac

Every so often, I'll look at a blogroll, and think how much I miss certain blogging voices.  And maybe I'll click over, just in case...

I went to a play the other day, put on by a local amateur group, Shipwrecked!  An Entertainment .  (The play premiered in the US in 2007.) ...

It's St. Crispin's Day! That's the day when we remember that we don't remember well, but are easily manipulated by patriot...

Or not. The Guardian has an article this morning that talks about the new edition of The New Oxford Shakespeare (ed. Gary Taylor), which...

I got an email from a colleague today, asking about one of the requirements for an interdisciplinary program (for which I chair a committee,...

In my writing class today, students had an optional journal due, and about half the students turned one in. It was also revision day, a da...

The past week just blew by. I got and graded a big stack of papers, and some small stacks (journals, rewrites). I've been to endless...

I went camping up at a State Park this past weekend, probably the last hurrah of the season. So, naturally, I took some pictures.  It was ...

I'm reading job applications, and got one from someone who did their degree at a for-profit, on-line outfit.  Everything about the appli...

The text of the day is?

I taught a poem today, and now I did some art.  The poem seemed fitting for today.

I came to my office to take care of a few things, finish some prep, enter grades, the usual. And, yes, to check what I'm teaching in m...

In my role as a tenured member of my department, I observed a colleague's class the other day, and wrote a report for that colleague...

Today, this article came across my facebook page: :The five things no one will tell you about why colleges don’t hire more faculty of color...

I've been hearing this saying lately, and I like it, "Not my circus, not my monkeys."  It's a good reminder that there are...

I serve on an interdisciplinary program committee; in fact, for the past year or so, I've been chair.  I offered to become chair when I ...

As in, the student I'm worried about, not the student who worries a lot. I met recently with a student in one of my lower level course...

I got an email yesterday from the new director of the Special Interdisciplinary Program (I'm the Curriculum Committee Chair for the prog...

I've already graded a set of small assignments (I got them Thursday, turned them back Friday), and I have a set from another class (also...

NPR did a segment on trigger warnings for All Things Considered recently, "Half Of Professors In NPR Ed Survey Have Used 'Trigger...