Bardiac

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 ...

 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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

 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...