Historical Archives
Yesterday, I plowed through 95 emails plus taught a workshop, and helped a faculty member work with an excel spreadsheet to update data and make a chart. Most of that email was questions and requests, the most common request right now being to move old course material in Blackboard over to a new course.* I…
I’m feeling a distinct lack of motivation. Partly, that’s because there’s so much to do, I don’t know where to begin. I’m only going to be at work one day this week (today). Tomorrow, I head to Baltimore for a conference, which I’m looking forward to, but now I’m thinking about how much work needs…
I have always enjoyed cooking. Though I’m not a great cook, I get a lot of pleasure out of taking a list of measurements and ingredients and turning it into something that others can savor. When I interviewed for my first real job, they asked me what I did to relieve stress. I said, I…
Didn’t find as many interesting sites this week, but I’m including the recipes from Cooking Light that we all decided were worth making again. I also caved and made a 365 blog. It’s fun looking at everyone else’s photos. Spicy Sweet Potato Wedges Egg Fried Rice Pork Roast with Three-Mushroom Ragout Oriental Flank Steak Broccoli…
Inspired by ianqui, I decided to participate in project 365. I’m not really a good photographer even though I took a photography class in college. But I’m really enjoying this and am getting more comfortable whipping out the camera whenever the mood strikes. I was especially proud of today’s photo, taken on the way to…
One theme of yesterday’s Wednesday Whining was homework. I added my own homework whine before I’d read everyone else’s and was tickled to see so many other people who have issues with their kids’ homework. I’ve written about homework before and Geeky Boy’s (and our) struggle with it. Pretty much everyone at Phantom’s was annoyed…
Computing departments at colleges and universities often have a bad reputation. In Dilbert, there’s a character called Mordac, the preventer of Information Services, who denies assistance and equipment to everyone. Often, the people in college computing departments are viewed the same way. People see them as slow to respond and difficult to work with. Not…
For the last few weeks, Geeky Girl has been dealing with a mean girl who also happens to be her best friend. Now we’ve never been particularly fond of the best friend. She’s kind of bossy and whiny, but we wouldn’t have put her in the mean girl category. At the parent-teacher conference in early…
Monday always seems to come around far too quickly. I feel like just one more day and I’d be satisfied. This is going to be my first full week back at work post holiday, which probably means it’s going to feel very long. Next week I’m going to a conference and ditto for the following…
So the New York Times has decided that the reason democrats won some key congressional seats is because they recruited some macho guys to run. They use my own home state as an example: The fruits of those efforts arrived in Washington last week. Take, for example, three House freshman from Pennsylvania. Patrick Murphy, the…
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