This is my 100th post, a nice round number with which to end the year.
For the moment, anyway, if you plug the words beagles in literature into Google, the top hit is the link to this post.
Chicago was fine. Flights, no problems. Interviews went well, I think; I enjoyed them, by and large, and the post-interview self-reproaches [...]
Archive for December, 2007
31 Dec
Ring out the old…
26 Dec
Windy city blues
Usually, when I take a trip, there’s a stage commencing up to 48 hours beforehand during which I feel I’d give anything not to have to go. I become focused on small tasks around the house which, if I were staying, I’d happily ignore for another few days, but which I become convinced have to be done before I [...]
24 Dec
The night before Christmas
Here’s wishing all my friends who celebrate Christmas a very happy day. And a very happy day to the rest of us, too, while we’re at it.
I got in all my 2YC grades. Still have some NCC grading left to do, but grades are due after break and I need to be focusing on interview [...]
23 Dec
The five red herrings
Nobody asked me, but the five-book meme has been bopping around for a week or so since Absurdist Paradise released it into the blogosphere, and I’m tagging myself. Five books that I came to love this year, and just for the heck of it, snippets of the authors’ reflections on the books and the writing of them:
Lionel [...]
21 Dec
What work is
For half of Tuesday, and all of Wednesday, I was pretending I was on break already, but the fact is that I still have two exams left to give, and a lot of grading to do. I got back into gear today and this is what I did:
Graded a set of final papers and a [...]
19 Dec
On top of spaghetti
A couple of years ago, when I had a one-year gig at a lovely SLAC, the Snork Maiden and I used to hit the student dining center once in a while for dinner. She’d always have some eccentric combination of things, like a bowl of cream of broccoli soup and a bowl of Lucky Charms [...]
19 Dec
A change in the weather, part 2
This is so weird. It’s Tuesday, but I’ve been home since about 2:00. The Snork Maiden and I have made some candy for holiday handouts. Stubb’s brother and our nephew Snufkin are coming over for dinner. I don’t have class tomorrow. I don’t have class tomorrow! Though I do still have large piles of grading.
I [...]
17 Dec
A change in the weather
I got up this morning and was puttering around making coffee when I suddenly thought, “Oh no! Today’s NCC exam starts at 8 instead of 8:30!” I had about twelve seconds of panic before the succeeding realization that the NCC class always starts at 8:00 and I was right on schedule, not running behind.
Then I [...]
15 Dec
Speak softly, and carry a beagle
. . .seemed like a better title than “Random bullets of crap, Friday night edition.”
Schulz and Peanuts, the new biography by David Michaelis, is wonderful. Michaelis makes explicit all sorts of fascinating connections between Schulz’s life and the comic strip he wrote and illustrated for fifty years. Among many other examples, Michaelis proposes that the head-body-arms proportions of [...]
11 Dec
By the pricking of my thumbs, part 3
We all know that two interviews might result in no job. Same goes for three interviews. But I’ll take it. I’ve got another convention interview, and this one is for the other local college I applied to! (As with the first local college, the University that Calls on Wednesday Before Thanksgiving, Then Takes the Rest [...]
