Not of General Interest

Okay. Say you belong to an organization and that the organization has a newsletter. Say that you've volunteered to lay out the newslet...

In department news: many meetings, but nothing I can blog about. I did learn some important lessons (not in a situation involving me) about...

I see that Jane Wyatt has died. As an old movie buff and John Galsworthy fan, I remember her as Dinny Cherrell in One More River, but to ...

Abandoned stone building Originally uploaded by undines . It's an abandoned building on the path beside the river, but it doesn...

River view 1 Originally uploaded by undines . After giving a talk yesterday to a local group (prep time: about 10 hours for a book ...

Our state has gone to mail-in ballots, which means the end of polling places for this fall's election. The reasons were cost, "con...

Some days are made for writing, or so I hear, and some days are just days like this. I spent the morning on business/administrative/class s...

I'm in Big Airport returning from a conference, waiting for a flight that's been delayed about two hours (as they have all the way a...

You know those nightmarish dreams where you're running through Jello or mud trying to get away from something and can't make any pro...

At the end of the semester, a lot of campuses, including ours, have "dead week." For us, this means that you can't have paper...

From today's New York Times , : Wal-Mart executives say they have embraced new policies for a large number of their 1.3 million workers ...

As an undergrad, I loved "movie day" in a class; who didn't? The class got to see and do something out of the usual routine. ...

that if you have, say, two standing meetings, neither of these will be held on the days that you teach, nor will they be held on the same da...

Well, maybe not shattered. Maybe slightly dented. Driving up the road to campus today, I saw another Prius. They're not too common arou...

This wasn't a conversation I had expected to have at the post office today, but it's a nice one to report. After dropping off a pac...

Flavia posted a PSA the other day announcing that the MLA Job Information List is now online. Like Flavia, I kept up a sporting interest i...

(Sorry--I had to take down the last post but will post again soon.)

Check out the Teaching Carnival by George at Wordherders . You won't be sorry.

From the Chronicle about Harold B. Schleifer, Dean of Libraries at Cal State Polytechnic in Pomona. This is the kind of thinking that I fea...

George Williams (link thanks to Mel )asks some interesting questions about teaching. I've been thinking about how my teaching practice...