Ye Olde Blogge

So here’s a link to the video of the talent show. I highly recommend the large streaming version. Geeky Girl is on the right. I’m working on getting it into other formats, but I have limited tools at my disposal here at home. The talent show was huge. They had it at the high school.…

Apparently, there was a party here last night. If you haven’t read the 106 or so comments on the previous post, you really should. jo(e) and Scrivener have written a long poem about sleeping and dreaming and words. It’s really fun and actually quite touching. And then jimbo–father figure that he is–runs them off to…

I went to bed at 9:30 last night. I was exhausted. Today I did my blog presentation for the Board of Trustees. They couldn’t believe there were professors who blog. At the end, though, one of the members who is a professor elsewhere said he thought he’d try this whole blog thing out in the…

I’m feeling a little better this morning. I went out to the bus stop with Geeky Boy and chatted with a few neighbors. They’re an interesting group–two dads and two moms this morning. I have most of the forms filled out that I need to–two soccer forms yet to go and one music form. We…

I think I’ve caught the dissatisfaction bug going around my little blog world. Today should have been a good day. I had a day off. It was Mr. Geeky’s birthday. We had the talent show rehearsal. But right after I posted this morning, it all went wrong. On Wednesday mornings, Mr. Geeky has an 8:00…

Today is Mr. Geeky’s birthday! We don’t usually do much for our birthdays. Mine’s in two weeks. Sometimes we decided to buy a joint gift. Sometimes we go to dinner, but most of the time, we buy each other a couple of little things and move on. My birthday has almost always fallen during spring…

Updated even more! 57 loads of laundry folded and put away 3.5 piles of clutter cleaned up 4 snippets from the news on blogs/blogging recorded onto dv camera Snippets have now been converted and embedded into the Powerpoint pres. 2 lunches prepared and eaten Hot chocolate and hot tea break 1 practice talk given for…

I’m home for the day with Geeky Boy who’s had some kind of virus/stomach bug/upper respitory thing since Sunday. School is delayed 2 hours for Geeky Girl. Mr Geeky stayed home yesterday, though I came home early because of the snow. I’m looking forward to this actually. I’m going to catch up on some housework,…

It’s 7 a.m. The neighbor across the street is shovelling snow and has his radio on loud enough so I can hear it through the walls and windows. School is delayed two hours, so I’m sure everyone thought they might snuggle in for some extra sleep. Not anymore. Geez! Please consider donating to my efforts…

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…