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RBOC: A Long, Productive Day with Happy News at the End!
(For those of you who’ve not been reading blogs since 1912, “RBOC” stands for “Random Bullets of Crap.”) I am so excited about the research paper topics that my tiny honors freshmen are developing....
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Like a Discopone
So, back in olden times, lo, what now seems to be just about 15 years ago, my grad school friends and I took this song as our anthem: Medusa (longtime readers will remember her now defunct blog)...
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On Spreading One’s Seed (Ew)
I hate the metaphor of “spreading one’s seed” as an academic. I think it’s gross, not only because of the whole “seed” business but also because it makes it seem like one’s students accomplishments...
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So This Is What Mid-Career Feels Like
I have returned from my conference, which was wonderful and enriching and inspiring and so productive. I have found the introduction to my book, as well as the path forward to completing a draft of the...
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In Unironic News of Joyous Awesomeness
So this past weekend I traveled to Virginia to celebrate HS BFF’s upcoming wedding. First of all, seeing her was just what the doctor ordered to end my Crappy July on a high note. There is something...
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A New Year, A New Semester, a New (Old) Schedule
So I know I’ve been falling down on the blogging. Frankly, things have just been so nutso in real life since the end of last semester that I haven’t had the time or the energy or the writing mojo to...
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A Vacation from My “Vacation”
Winter Break isn’t much of a “vacation” for most academics, and it’s even less of one for those of us who attend/present at/conduct interviews/etc. the major meetings of our disciplines during the...
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On the 5-Day Teaching Schedule
It’s week 3, and I remain in love with this schedule. Why? Because All of a sudden I am never exhausted! And I go to bed at the same time every night! And I am energetic in every class that I...
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And the Celebration of My 40th Birthday Has Commenced!
I don’t turn 40 for a couple of weeks. But classes start the Monday after my birthday, so my “birthday weekend” needs to be fairly quiet. So I decided, as one does, to get the party started a bit...
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