(at least, I think I’m up to 4) I’m not sure what to think about the continued radio silence on the job search. I know that two departments aren’t bringing me to campus, and I have reasonable certainty that a third isn’t either; there’s nothing on the wiki about it, but I’m pretty sure that [...]
Archive for January, 2008
29 Jan
Nuts
One of the good things about NCC is that I really like the chair of my department–a smart, equable, good-humored, can-do woman. She has twice offered me a second class for the spring, but in both cases I turned the class down because the scheduling was–well, not absolutely impossible, but pretty darned inconvenient, and would [...]
26 Jan
Going places
January term is almost over, and I’m thinking about next week’s trip to AWP. This is the third time in the last six months that I’ve looked up from the muck of a ludicrous teaching load to contemplate escaping on a conference trip, and once again, I am really looking forward to it. I’ve been feeling [...]
22 Jan
Shifting gears
I’d like to write a why I teach post, especially now that I realize (via Tenured Radical) that Dr. Crazy’s post has spawned an actual meme, but I’m, uh, too busy grading. I have to figure out how to structure such a post, considering that I have reasons why I teach in general (as opposed to [...]
20 Jan
Home ground
If I weren’t still hung up on this anonymity thing, I could tell you more about the interesting part of the country in which I live, and some of the neat things we saw on a mini-roadtrip yesterday. Oh well. It’s not that I think anyone is out there really trying to figure out who [...]
17 Jan
Jaguars ripped my flesh
The lesson of January term, at least this week, is that midterm is midterm, even if the term is only five weeks long. Yesterday had it all: the confrontation with the student whose decorum is extremely poor, but whose coursework is worse; the comforting of the distraught student; the request from a student I’ve known for less than [...]
14 Jan
First Indian on the moon
Took the Snork Maiden to the library over the weekend to get some books for her “Multicultural Fair Project.” She wants to learn about a Native American people who are local to this area. (I am conscious of not wanting to be one of those parents who take over their kids’ projects: a classmate’s mom [...]
12 Jan
What we carry
Ah, the weekend. I think yesterday’s post was the blog equivalent of that cracked, whiny voice I get when I’m overtired. (In his book Among Schoolchildren, Tracy Kidder describes Mrs. Zajac’s difficulty falling asleep when she’s worried about one of her students: she has to push aside the worries and say the rosary so that [...]
11 Jan
The big sleep
Normally I rather like getting up very early in the morning (4 or 5). Last academic year, early mornings were some of my best writing times. The phone doesn’t ring, there’s nothing new on email, and once I’ve dragged myself out of bed, I’m inclined to make the time count, so I don’t dally: I [...]
