Historical Archives
This afternoon I learned that one of my college friends died of breast cancer. She was 39. I was struck pretty hard by the news. She was someone I was fairly close to in college, but then lost track of immediately afterwards. I only saw her at reunions. So it’s not as if I had…
Last week, when I wrote about my clutter and exercise problems, I had every intention of tackling them. I semi-tackled the clutter problem by doing a little clutter reduction in the kids’ rooms. I managed to at least keep new clutter from accumulating, so that’s something. On the exercise front, however, I’ve failed. Truly, the…
Dean Dad has written a couple of posts recently that take on the sacred cow of tenure. It’s a theme that comes up again and again in the academic blogosphere. I think Dean Dad, New Kid, Dr. Crazy, and others have done an excellent job of covering several different perspectives on the issue. I have…
Here’s the video I ended up creating, with some help from one of my students. The title is predictive. It really might be offensive, but that’s the point. Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure
Yesterday afternoon, I participated in a conference call with four intelligent and passionate women. We’re working on a presentation about combating fear of technology in higher education, specifically fear of web 2.0. Barbara Ganley said something that stuck with me, so much that I couldn’t sleep last night. She encouraged us to think about pushing…
Last night, I made my way through this article on the use of digital resources by humanities and social sciences faculty. There was a considerable amount of food for thought, some good, some not so good. I was reading it with an eye toward finding a clue as to how to improve our own services.…
Boy, it was hard to go back to work today. My eyes are bloodshot. My head is heavy. And it’s only 8 o’clock. I kept myself alive by drinking lots of caffeine and busying myself with tasks that didn’t require a huge amount of thought. I stayed offline the entire break and so I came…
I’m too tired to write an actual post, so here’s some links, with a tiny bit of commentary: NY Times Article on Decline in Tenure-Track jobs–via 11D, good discussion there. A semi-scientific listing of the most influential blogs. A powerpoint on technology trends among students. My thought, yes, technology makes things convenient, but we need…
Over the weekend I got sucked into Desperate Crossing, a History Channel special on the Mayflower. How factual the whole thing was, I don’t know, but they did have quite a few historians who didn’t just speculate about how the whole Plymouth colony and the first Thanksgiving went down. They drew on primary texts and…
Ugh, the bill with the horrid p2p provisions passed the house without a word about those provisions. For further reading: Kenneth Green on the bill I’m disgusted. Update: Didn’t pass the house–just the committee. But the vote was unanimous. Sigh. Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the…
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