Not of General Interest

I'm still patient with my students--very patient. I want them to succeed. And I do like my colleagues. Everyone else is getting a little...

One of the truisms of our profession is that assistant professors have to protect their time and learn to say no so that they can get promot...

Yeah, Scalzi said it best; doesn't he always? Being on a Facebook break is great. Checking in on FB and seeing all the perennial...

From Air & Light & Time & Space: " Studies by Hartley and Branthwaite (1989) and Kellogg (1994) suggest that the most prod...

An LFL heinously upholding neoliberalism. Okay, the next post will be about writing or something, I promise. But I came home after a f...

I saw a tweet the other day that said something like "I hope I can put the 6 hours a day I spend watching the news about the U.S. destr...

The Westly, apparently one of the top 4 models. As a chaser from current news and the last post, I give you some Sears homes. With ...

I've been gone again with travel, and more travel, and still more travel via planes, trains, and automobiles.  I'm home for now, tho...

Back from travel and more travel, lovely but draining. It was a conference, but a conference in Europe, so I got work credit and the benefit...

Gwinne's post on writing  had me thinking about the process (and also made me buy the Air & Light & Time & Space book), so ...

Bardiac had asked to see the results of the hardwood flooring installation, so here goes! I'll take this pic down in a day or two. The...

For the past month I (we) have been doing some much-needed house refreshing--hardwood floors in place of 20-year-old carpet, some new carpet...

First, the not-so-good: Did I come down with the deadly plague after encountering the cheerful colleagues in the previous post? Why, yes, ...

If you ask me a series of technical questions in a group email, and I jump right on it and spend 20 minutes answering them, and then you a...

Figure 1. Edmund Wilson's version of auto-reply. There's been a movement afoot to light on fire, in Twitter terms, anyway, anyon...

I've been on campus for a few things recently, and while it's nice to be missed (it really is!), the downside is realizing that the ...

Still plodding along, still working hard, and still relishing a sabbatical that's almost over--that's what's going on here.  In ...

Deborah K. Fitzgerald's "Our Hallways are Too Quiet" at The Chronicle asks, in effect, "Haloooo? Is anybody there? Where...

Figure 1. Thoreau could walk around Walden Pond  with a notebook and a pencil he made himself. He knew that the hand  was connected to t...

In an essay that's making the rounds of social media, here's another kind of writing group:  https://www.timeshighereducation.com/op...