Being an administator at the U of Sorta’ Cosmopolitan is a bit like being a glorified secretary.
Archive for July, 2008
Administrative Lesson #3
Posted in The Professoriate, tagged administrativa on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Updated: What I Have To Do
Posted in The Professoriate, tagged Goals, Summer, To Do Lists on July 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Things I Have To (or Should) Do This Summer:
Item 1: Finish up state-journal paper with R.
July 16: We are almost done with this. I need to make some final edits, but I was busy doing my page proofs for Big Important Article. Well, that, and I was busy dealing with administrative shit.
Item 2: Farm out articles [...]
Updated: What I Want To Do
Posted in It's My Life, tagged Fun Stuff, Goals on July 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The 17 Things I Want To Do This Summer:
Item 1: Go to St. Louis to see Alison Krauss in concert.
Well fuck. The concert was moved to September so now I can’t go at all. That completely sucks. And I tell you, this is the last time I buy tickets for an out of [...]
Attack of the Killer Tomato (Hornworm, that is)
Posted in It's My Life, This F***ing Old House, tagged Gardening, This F***ing Old House, Tomatoes on July 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
OMG! Icky! I went outside to play around with my tomato plants and found all these half-eaten tomatoes. On closer inspection, I found four of these little fuckers making their way through my plants!
Yep, that’s a good ol’ Tomato Hornworm. This one went down my garbage disposal. The other three are laying in the middle of [...]
Important Announcement.
Posted in The Professoriate, Wat Stom!, tagged Newsflash on July 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This just in:
We are extremely fortunate to have a beautiful building to work and teach. I am requesting that in the act of preserving the beauty and integrity of our building that we limit all postings outside our faculty and staff offices to our bulletin boards and not taped to our oak office doors or [...]
Vintage Cameras, Part II
Posted in It's My Life, tagged cameras, photography, vintage on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, so today I ordered some simichrome polish so that I can clean up the Brownie. I also found a video that shows how to shoot 35 mm in the camera. I’m eventually going to try that, but first I want to get used to the camera, so I am going to buy some 620 [...]
Administrative Lesson #2
Posted in The Professoriate, tagged administrativa, Research on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Students will always have their advising crises when their advisers are away for the summer.
Administrative Lesson #1
Posted in The Professoriate, tagged administrativa on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Always, always check up on the secretary to make sure she actually followed through on a request.
liberated from grandma’s house
Posted in It's My Life, tagged cameras, hobbies, photography on July 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A Kodiak Brownie Hawkeye.
Now I just need to buy some b&w film.
Yeah, I really do dig vintage shit.
