The week that lies ahead…Forgive me if this is too boring.
Today, Sunday: I didn’t do any of the grading-related stuff I needed to do, including writing some of my quarter reports on students, but I’ll have time over the next couple of days. I went running, compiled my November calendar of availability for NLNRU, and filed [...]
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2 Nov
Away we go
1 Nov
The songlines
Last year, I occasionally put an extra-credit question on reading quizzes that I thought were difficult, and a question I used several times was something like “What song or piece of music, in your opinion, best expresses the emotion of this chapter/book of the Odyssey/section of the reading?” Pretty much any answer was okay as long as [...]
17 Oct
The letter
Here in my second full year at SA, the firsts that used to happen every week (sometimes every day) have slowed to a trickle–but this week I wrote my first two college recommendations! These were for the two boys I really hoped would ask me for recs, because each worked hard to master skills that didn’t [...]
30 Sep
First person plural
I’ve been meaning to write about the experience of having two jobs in the way that I’m having them this year, trying to divide my work self evenly and fairly between both of them and still preserve and nourish my home self. So far–and I must acknowledge that it’s only been a few weeks–it is working [...]
3 Sep
When pigs fly
So, what kind of position paper did your institution put out about the H1N1 virus? Anything that doesn’t boil down to “If you’re sick, stay home”?
Lesboprof, one of the early adopters (but, I thankfully add, recovering), points out that this might be a good year to cut back on the opening-of-school meet-and-greets. We had one of [...]
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 [...]
13 Aug
Pocketful of names
I can view my fall class rosters online now–for both NLNRU and SA. Since I’m teaching the lower-level class at NLNRU, those names mean little or nothing to me–mostly new students or students working primarily in a different genre. Actually, the new students mean a little more, since I read their applications to the program. [...]
9 Jun
Crossing to safety
Fifty-seven exams and sixteen final papers stand between the summer and me.
I’ve devoted the morning not to these but to an administrative project that I’d been neglecting; another hour or so on that, and I can wade into the exams and papers. Forty-nine of the exams had a multiple-choice component, scored by Scantron, so that part is done [...]
20 Mar
Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus
Well, things have settled down, as they often do. (I almost wrote “as they sometimes do,” but decided to be less superstitious than that. Hypatia will understand what an act of bravery that is.) The Snork Maiden is well, and I have my car back, apparently running fine for now. I just need to pay [...]
22 Feb
The remains of the day
I think I’ve used that title before, but OK.
So, I have something to do for pretty much every segment of my work and personal life. I have grading to do, prepping to do, or both, for every class–and four of them meet tomorrow. I have NLNRU administrative stuff to do. I have family stuff. And then [...]
