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Sunday, July 31, 2022

Update

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It's been a while. I sort of posted a what's up post in January .  My Mom spent the last of December and the first third of January ...
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Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Assessment = Grade?

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 I was in one of those meetings with people where we were supposed to talk about assessment stuffs, and the question came up:  Assume you ha...
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Monday, March 28, 2022

Been a While

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We just finished spring break, but it didn't feel like much of a break.  I went to visit my Mom and things remain pretty much as they ar...
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Friday, February 04, 2022

Wandering in the Wasteland

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Things continue on.  My Mom's really not improving, and my expectations are that she won't.   My brother is amazing, and continues t...
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Thursday, January 27, 2022

Reporting on Reports

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Thanks for the kind words everyone.  Things with my Mom are stable in terms of physical health, but up and down in terms of mental stuff.  L...
Monday, January 17, 2022

Slogging through Winter

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 Mom's in rehab, doing... okay.  She's more confused than she'd been before, but things seem to be improving somewhat.  She does...
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Sunday, January 09, 2022

Update

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Things are better... There was a lot of sitting around in my Mom's hospital room waiting.  And then more waiting. On Thursday, they fina...
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Sunday, January 02, 2022

Much Better

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Thanks for the kind words, everyone. Today was much better.  My Mom fed herself her meals, and ate them well.  (Yesterday she'd eat a fe...
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Friday, December 31, 2021

And Waiting Some More

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 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...
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Thursday, December 30, 2021

Waiting

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 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...
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Saturday, December 11, 2021

Remember When?

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 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.
Monday, November 29, 2021

Deflated

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 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...
Saturday, November 27, 2021

Almost Halfway Through My Term: What I've Learned

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 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...
Monday, November 22, 2021

Hanging In There

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 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...
Tuesday, November 02, 2021

Reacting or Acting?

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 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...
Sunday, October 31, 2021

From Delagar: Do you know what your great-grandparents did?

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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 ...
Thursday, October 21, 2021

The Joys (or NOT) of Chairing

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 I've asked each of the different majors groups in the department to think about the department assessment we've done, talk about it...
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Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Changing Seasons for the Chair

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 We're having a gorgeous autumn here, with nice brisk days, with mostly good sunshine.  Not too cold.  The leaves seems slow changing th...
Friday, October 15, 2021

Treading Water

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 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...
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Tuesday, October 05, 2021

What Goes Around...

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 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...
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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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