Not of General Interest

In the past five "found" days (i.e., days when I'd normally be at or traveling to MLA but have had restored to me this year), ...

Merry Christmas, Happy Boxing Day, and happy all other holidays! Activities since the last post: Sleep, eat, read, go to a party, talk and l...

I am not going to MLA this year, for what seems like the first year in ages. Despite the stress of getting ready for the holidays, it feels ...

I've been thinking about the grading process--not the grading itself, but calculating grades. Like Profgrrrl , I'm a big fan of Exce...

From "MLA Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship," Profession 2007 , pp. 27-28: Estimated percentage of English and Foreign Language...

The grades are in, and now I can get to work on some writing. But first: a tech reward! As you can see from my Kindle-envy , I want to be ab...

Like just about everyone else on the blogroll, I am grading and having some Sweeney Todd fantasies about running amok with the red pen. Ap...

As one option for their final project, students can collaborate on a web project, a presentation, a wiki, a paper--whatever best suits their...

I discovered today that you don't have to let virtue be its own reward when it comes to bagging groceries. I have cloth bags from local...

I have spent most of the day (about 10 hours, with breaks) on a paragraph and a half. It is still not done. It is still not good. (Not yet, ...

From "How to Get What You Want in Academe" by Gary Olson at the Chronicle: (Shorter Olson: This isn't the way.) At a recen...

"Wow, what a special treat this was for all of us," said Talking Points Memo head blogger Joshua Micah Marshal, who, along with al...

The classes are finished for the semester (except for finals). I was pleased with the presentations assigned in one class; the students did...

I like my students (I really do), and the classes are going well. They are largely attentive and participate in class--so why should I care ...

I'm just catching up with Perlmutter's "The Joyless Quest for Tenure" at the Chronicle. To put it mildly, I have a few pr...

Seeing all the successful writing totals for InaDWriMo at Dr. Brazen Hussy 's, Chaser 's, Tenured Life , and elsewhere makes me wish...

I am over my desire for a Kindle, a tech-excitement that reading texts on my laptop helped to satisfy. Although I usually print .pdfs becau...

Someone must have slipped a guilt pill into my students' pumpkin pie. On Friday, I started getting e-mails about the most random things...

It's hard to know which is the best thing about Thanksgiving: The fact that once you put the turkey into the oven in the morning, you ha...

Maybe as a result of lugging, sorting, reshelving (and dusting--let's not forget dusting) all the books I organized this week, I've ...