Conferencing yesterday with an NLNRU student who’s writing a novel set in a certain period of our state’s history, I confessed my relative ignorance of our state’s history and blamed it on growing up in another state (as I did in this post). Today, for unrelated reasons–actually, for no reason I can think of except that I have to go [...]
Archive for March, 2010
29 Mar
Long time gone
Over the weekend, I went to a reading by students in my program at a bookstore over by NLNRU. In the milling around afterwards, I met up with a soon-to-graduate student who introduced me to his girlfriend as “This is Meansomething, I took a class with her a long time ago, when I first started this program.” “A long [...]
27 Mar
In the time of the butterflies
Goal: 20 hours of writing during spring break. SA is finally on spring break, O frabjous day! I took my book ms. out for coffee this morning, figuring that (just as I told my freshman students about their most recent paper draft) since I hadn’t looked at it in a while, I would be able [...]
17 Mar
Getting past no
Probably a lot of us who wind up doing something in administration got there because we like to find ways of making “Yes” happen. And then we realize that no matter how constructive we are, a lot of administration involves saying “No.” Sometimes to people who deserve it, and sometimes to people who don’t. A [...]
6 Mar
A burnt-out case
Well, almost the end of the first week of March and I’m not sick (knock wood), but I am TIRED. We had a wonderful visit at both SA and NLNRU by an esteemed writer friend of mine, and I enjoyed having my friend see both my habitats and getting to talk at luxurious length. Then, though, [...]
5 Mar
Here comes the weekend AAAAGGGHH
Friday evening: Snork Maiden soccer practice/Shabbat dinner Saturday: Before 10 AM: A run, grading, laundry. 10:00–Drive to in-laws’ for brunch. 12:00–Leave to chaperone SA students at food bank. 4:00–Home again, maybe a nap? 6:00–At my sister’s to take care of the kids with my mom and the Snork Maiden (I’ve told Stubb this one is [...]
4 Mar
Wacky Wednesday
So it’s the third day of March and no one in my family is sick, though the Snork Maiden is finishing up a course of antibiotics for a nasty skin infection, and I’m due to go back to the ENT next week. February was a rough month; my motto for March is Health for Everybody! [...]
3 Mar
The groves of academe
As you may remember, I taught a year-long junior course last year and a junior elective, for a total of–if memory serves–about 24 juniors (of a graduating class of something like 110). I wrote 10 college recommendations, and some of those students have already been admitted to schools with early action/early decision or rolling admissions. [...]
