Bardiac

I've returned from my adventure, about which I'll be blogging in the next few days, if only so I can enjoy seeing the pictures later...

I'm mostly packed, and head out tomorrow morning. Keep your fingers tightly crossed that they somehow put out the fire in CA near Yose...

I got my restart.  I did some hiking, some research/writing, and finished the mid-summer weeding of the garden. My trip is slowly coming t...

What a bust of a week last week and so far this week. There's the Yosemite camping trip in the works, and I've decided to drive ou...

I'm late posting this week's post because I'm feeling a bit bad that I didn't get much done last week. I did finish a draf...

I've been reading a bit about "unessay"s and am listing a couple of links so that I can find them again when next fall comes a...

I started reading Karen Joy Fowler's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves the other day, and I had the weird feeling that I've r...

I went to a "town hall" meeting held by the Republican senator from my state, and it was literally held in a town hall of a town t...

This week, thanks to Top Left Quadrant , I started writing an essay.  I'd put outlining the essay as one of my goals, and so felt just e...

I wrote before about trying to sort out the union local's books.  I don't know what the previous treasurer was doing, but it apparen...

Today, I went on what's probably the longest hike I've ever been on, 7 miles (according to my Garmin).  42 floors up (46 down, accor...

It's week 3, and I've been busy, but not accomplishing much, if that makes sense.  And feeling a bit worried about that. And then ...

As I posted back in January , I'm looking for an adventure for my sabbatical.  It turns out, a couple of my cousins do some backpacking...

I'm now officially on sabbatical!  66 weeks of adventure, work, and not teaching! I'm going backpacking (lite) this weekend; the c...

Two more weeks of school stuff (maybe a tad more for grading) and then 66 weeks of sabbatical!  (Yes, I counted.  Twice.  Using two differen...

The semester's almost over.  6 teaching days left (for me), plus three finals, and then a lot of grading. But for this moment, there...

It's time for the annual Crocus Smile art installation picture!  If you recall, just last week, it looked like this .  (Scroll down...

when alliteration hits.  Or not. I met with a student this morning to talk about a paper that's due tomorrow.  The student had cancell...

This was my commute this morning.  I stopped for turkeys?  Why did they cross the road?  To strut their stuff! In other news, the c...

Our Local union president has contacted all the department and program chairs around campus and asked if we can send someone (or two) to a d...