… and she lives in the back of beyond. No ‘net. No cafes. Just a bunch of abandoned mines and a prison camp. So, I’ll see you on the flipside!
Archive for June, 2008
To Grandmother’s House I Go …
Posted in It's My Life, Travel, tagged Adirondacks, New York, Travel on June 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A Good (Research) Day
Posted in The Professoriate, tagged Research on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Research is a tricky beast. Some days, it bites you on the ass. You’re blocked. You can’t get a word written down. You’re interrupted by other demands and end up getting bumped out of your mental space. When you have the teaching load that I have (or used to have), it’s really hard to get [...]
Culture of Fear
Posted in The Professoriate, tagged Academia, service learning, Teaching on June 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Tonight at dinner, R. reminded me that I had not written the post that I alluded to in this blog entry. You know, I must be the master of memory suppression because I had completely forgotten abut this whole episode! Anyhow, here’s another entry that should be subtitled “Things that Annoy Me about Sorta’ Cosmopolitan.”
You [...]
Annoyances
Posted in It's My Life, The Professoriate, tagged Advising, Construction, Critters, Foodie Files on June 25, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Four annoyances:
Can someone please save me from rude students? Well, just one rude student. Apparently she thinks she has been “misadvised” about what classes to take next fall. Yeah, no she wasn’t. She just hasn’t submitted the right transcripts our University. D’oh.
Can someone please save me from the idiots who make decisions about road [...]
I’m really not that cynical …
Posted in Politics, tagged Politics on June 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Talk about truth in advertising. LOL!
Recovering
Posted in The Professoriate, tagged administrativa on June 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Holy crap! What a day!
I spent three hours in a meeting this morning.
I spent the afternoon putting out fires.
It took me four hours of mindless TV to finally relax.
UGH!
The Zoo
Posted in It's My Life, tagged birds, flowers, prairie dogs, zoo on June 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
As you can probably tell from the comments on one of more recent posts, I am not a big fan of ghetto zoos and the zoo here in Sorta’ Cosmopolitan is definitely ghetto. The large cats are in small pens, the buildings are old and smelly, and the mesh on all of the cages is [...]
Good, Bad, Nerdy: The June’s Almost Over Edition
Posted in It's My Life, pop culture, tagged Anime, Books, Money, Work on June 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Good:
Pretty soon, I should be rolling in dough from my various summer gigs. Of course, all that extra cash is being set aside for my trip to Peru in March. Woot! This is my version of PAYGO — get the cash in hand before going on expensive trips.
The new TV is here and it [...]
Kitty Porn
Posted in The Critters, tagged Katje on June 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Katje plays with a paper bag. Yeah, he’s won over all the critters and is roaming the house when we are home. (BTW, his eyes do not look that green in real life. He seems more monochrome.)
Hot, Hot, Hot!
Posted in Politics, tagged Politics on June 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Talk about a hot politician …
