Bardiac

 More waiting.  And worrying. I came Christmas day, met up with my brother, and came to see my Mom.  She was grumpy in that way and okish. T...

 My Mom fell a week or so before Christmas, and then had an episode of ... sort of not being there or something, so they took her back to th...

 We just had a bit of a snow dump, so here's a picture to remind us that warmer times with flowers and butterflies will come.

 A while back, some of my old college pals invited me to join them in starting fresh in WoW classic; they'd all played a fair bit of WoW...

 It's late days, but I think I've overcome a lot of my procrastination problem.  While I haven't joined Top Left Quadrant latel...

 I'm on the edge of either overwhelmed or not.  I'm not quite sure. But I'm absolutely looking forward to the Thanksgiving break...

 As chair, much of my work feels reactive.  Sometimes that's good.  For example, when a colleague wants to apply for a grant or other op...

Delagar found this on twitter, and I lifted it. This is a hard one, isn't it?  I may have a bit of an advantage, because I knew several ...

 I've asked each of the different majors groups in the department to think about the department assessment we've done, talk about it...

 We're having a gorgeous autumn here, with nice brisk days, with mostly good sunshine.  Not too cold.  The leaves seems slow changing th...

 I feel like I'm trying to swim up a swift river, and mostly treading water, barely staying in place rather than moving forward.  And th...

 I've had a couple of odd conversations recently with some of my younger colleagues. A couple have told me that they like teaching on li...

 Delagar put up an interesting mini-questionnaire thingy: 1. What did your father's father do for a living? 2. What did your father d...

 It's been a short week, thanks to the Labor Day holiday on Monday.  But it feels like a long one. New problems have popped up.  For exa...

 The semester is now underway, and underway again after the break, so it feels real now.  Students in my class seemed happy to be in class, ...

 What a summer.  I feel like I'm still waiting for it to begin, and here we are on the first day of our fall contract period. Have folks...

 We're doing two searches right now for short term positions.  One of those searches has a large enough pool or really good people that ...

That should be rule one of being a chair, perhaps.  Or a corrolary.  Or something. If someone has something really good to pass along, they ...

 I've been chair for a year now, and things are looking way better these days. First, and probably most important: our new admin assista...

 We're in the last week of the semester, then a week of finals, and then summer comes.  This semester has sped by in some ways, and craw...