So, I’ve made my complaints as I see them from the staff perspective, but there are certainly ways that the staff also accentuate the divide. Some of my colleagues are with David Horowitz on the issue of faculty work and salaries. Some think that faculty only work when they’re teaching. Some think they get paid…

Okay, this is going to totally blow my pseudonym, but I’m going to point you to it anyway. We only did one take–which you can totally tell. We tried doing a second take, but we’re in a construction zone and they decided to start doing noisy stuff right as we got started, so in the…

I don’t expect to actually make money off of my little amazon thingy. I just thought it would be something fun to play with. The book I’m highlighting now was actually written by a guy in my writing group. It’s based on a story told to him by a Holocaust survivor. He’s also written a…

I realize this is a risky post topic considering my audience, but it’s something I’ve been wanting to write about for a while. This also may be a figment of my own imagination and/or unique to my insititution. A while back, I mentioned that I felt like I was being treated like slave labor and…

Jody at Raising WEG posts about “living in the moment” as parent. I commented there, but it also made me think about the memories my kids are starting to share with me. For example, Geeky Boy said he remembered when we first moved into this house. Just a few hours after the movers left us…

For a whole hour. Geeky girl slept with me last night. She woke at 3:00 a.m. needing more medicine and some water. Then I couldn’t go back to sleep, worrying about her. I actually got up and looked up croup on the internet. It was reassuring just to know what the really bad symptoms were…

The snow has caused a two-hour school delay, so I’m still in my bathrobe at the usual bus time. Geeky Girl has a nasty cough, so I’ve decided to drag her to work with me, like Scrivner. She’s had croup a few times in her young life and when she gets a cough like this,…

Okay, okay. I give in. Someone (Prof. Goose!) was writing about the south today. Note that I have visited or lived in every southern state (I think). bold the states you’ve been to, underline the states you’ve lived in and italicize the state you’re in now… Alabama / Alaska / Arizona / Arkansas / California…

Well, the snow came and school was cancelled and I’ve spent the day lazing around. I think I still have the kid’s attitude toward snow–snow day! No work! No school! Hooray! Plus Mr. Geeky is out of town so the routine is thrown off completely. Before the snow hit, I went to the doctor about…

So Friday we ran a “How to get your web page up and running” workshop. Basically, we thought we were going to show people some basic FTP tools, set up web accounts for them and talk about the index page, etc. What happened, though, was that the people who showed up barely knew how to…