Today is the first parent-teacher conference of the year. Normally I look forward to these. I have a sweet and intelligent child who does well in school. I still have a sweet, intelligent child who does well in school, but this year we are confronted with the homework issue. We’ve had phone calls from every…

There’s a lot of stress and anxiety out there among the academic bloggers. Part of it is the time of year. Students begin to realize that no, they’re not going to pass and yes, maybe they should have come to class, written that paper in more than a couple of hours, or read that book…

Too many vacation days left–which means I get to take a lot of time off between now and the end of the year. The Amazing Race Starts again–I’m in an office pool; it’s cheesy and fun. Only 3 more working days (for me) until Thanksgiving New warm pajamas Civilization III–which I’m going to play after…

I woke up in the middle of the night worried about things at work. It was an hour before I could go back to sleep. I was also worried about bills and my trip to my mother’s. I have a long stretch of open time today–which is good. But I have a lot of little…

I’m going out on a limb and using this blog to post some thoughts about a book I’m reading (posted about here). These are just thoughts that I’m hoping to coalesce into first, something for my professional blog that the faculty read and second, into a presentation. Feel free to comment and argue. The basic…

The novel half of the laundry bills grocery shopping-we have no food sundry other things in my head that I wanted to do Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure

The New York Times > Arts > Frank Rich: On ‘Moral Values,’ It’s Blue in a Landslide Just made my way through this article, which I think is interesting. In terms of culture, I think Rich is right, blue is going to win. There’s too much money to be made. It’s in the G.O.P.’s interest…

I really love blogging. I know it sounds silly, but now I’m really sorry I didn’t start blogging when I first discovered it two years ago. I read the occasional blog back then, but not the way I have for the past year. I’m so glad I forced myself–wasn’t hard really–to blog every day. And…

Laundry–always–2 loads down, 5 to go Blog 5 pages of novel–really need to do this Read short story for Writer’s group Buy birthday present Soccer party Soccer game–cancelled Birthday party Is that enough? I think so. I really need to work on the novel. I started a blog for it and everything. I thought I…

Today was actually a good day for once. It was pouring rain, so there was no construction and thus, no fumes. We had a coffee hour (as we have every Friday) where students, staff and faculty drink coffee, eat donuts and talk. Very nice. Then I went to the library and actually did some reading.…