The Snork Maiden is in the kitchen, making oatmeal cookies to take to Bestfriend’s house for a sleepover, for she is going to stay with Bestfriend instead of at her auntie’s while I go to my meetup with Stubb this afternoon. You know we don’t go out of town together without her very often, so I am [...]
Archive for August, 2009
27 Aug
The ten-year nap
My feeling as I left my NLNRU class tonight: the first ten years of teaching truly are the hardest. After that you are pretty much ahead of almost all your students forever. You know the subject, how to get the students to connect with it, the dynamics of the classroom, and your own personality. Only a truly, [...]
26 Aug
Tell me a riddle
Inside the Philosophy Factory‘s recent post about volunteering for a committee to develop student advising by faculty got me thinking about our situation at NLNRU. We have a Student Services Advisor who serves all the (roughly) 100 students in our two-year (usually) master’s program. The SSA meets with every student every semester regarding the student’s choices for [...]
26 Aug
Look again
This might not matter to you if you read this blog in Google Reader, as I read most blogs, but I’m trying on a new theme, color scheme, etc. Not sure it’s really me, but it’s certainly different. Comments welcome.
26 Aug
Fly away home
It’s nice to be back inside our own four walls. First NLNRU class…eeeek. I mean, it is something I have taught before and really it all ought to be just fine; I’m not so sure my jitters aren’t more about not having big jitters. As so often happens, the first hurdle was securing the appropriate [...]
24 Aug
The unforgotten
This post is to remind me that the deadline is approaching for a small fellowship for which I need to apply. It’s actually been quite a while since I applied for anything like this–and it’s also been a while since I sent out any work to magazines. At certain stages of my writing life, such [...]
24 Aug
A wind in the door
I’m back in Stubbville to spend a couple of days. The Snork Maiden and I head home tomorrow; my NLNRU class meets for the first time on Wednesday. Stubb finishes up here at the end of the week. We have a plan for me to fly to meet him halfway through his journey home, and [...]
20 Aug
Panopticon
Speaking of which, it’s always nice to be linked to by Inside Higher Ed, but I always feel as if someone has stopped by and the house is a mess, particularly when the post they link to is kind of boring and the one at the top of the blog yammers on and on. Today I [...]
19 Aug
A house divided
As I remarked to What Now? in the comments to a recent post, I’m dividing myself in half this year, taking on nearly equal shares of work at Starfleet Academy and NLNRU. Fact is, I was offered a full-time appointment at NLNRU for this academic year…but with no assurance of future employment. Not even the ability [...]
18 Aug
Crime and punishment
I’m annoyed right now because I discovered several fraudulent charges on my bank debit card, although I suppose I should also be thankful that I did discover them because it looks as though someone has been stealthily making modest purchases–the post office, Babies R Us–for about a week, including three while I was in Stubbville, [...]
