Grading Hell: For the record, I am still alive, despite being buried under a heaping pile of papers and the outbreak of swine H1N1 Flu. There’s only been one case of flu in my state, but our University has a big ol’ story on its website. Paranoid much?
Cheater-Cheater: Plagiarism Kid coped to his/her sins. It [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Bloglettes.
Posted in It's My Life, The Foodie Files, The Professoriate, Travel, tagged Cheating, garden, guest lectures, swine flu, Vacation on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Purgatory.
Posted in The Professoriate, tagged Grading on April 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I am in grading purgatory. Tonight, however, I am going home to eat dinner, watch movies, read a book or play Guitar Hero. {Early onset of tenuritis?}
Damn it! Now I have to fill out paperwork!
Posted in The Professoriate, tagged Cheating, Grading on April 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
In the previous post, I mentioned that I had students who did not cite their sources … but I could tell that they had written the paper. Tonight, however, I across a paper where the student lifted the material word-for-word from three sources (then I stopped grading it). I was tipped off by the fact [...]
A question for the gods of academia
Posted in The Professoriate, tagged citations, Grading on April 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Why, oh, why, do some students “forget” to cite their sources? Really? Not a single internal citation in TWO undergrad papers (and I still have ~20 more to grade). I have a feeling that it’s going to be one of those days.
End of Semester Blues
Posted in It's My Life, The Professoriate, tagged To Do List on April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How did all of this work pile up on me? Oh, that’s right. I travelled too much. I got sick. I have too many duties and not enough people to help me. {Sigh} But soon, very, very soon, the semester will be over … and I’ll be getting ready to dive into teaching my summer [...]
New Goals & Crazy Ideas
Posted in pop culture, tagged addiction, Books, hobbies on April 17, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Now that I have my tenure decision, I need to find something to fill all my (theoretical) spare time.* Sure I still have a ton of research to do – must make full professor before my 50th birthday** – but I don’t want to be so damned one-dimensional. I need a new hobby to augment [...]
Never Again.
Posted in The Professoriate, Wat Stom!, tagged ARGH on April 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I will never work with the applied research people on my campus again.
That is all.
Elemental.
Posted in Meme, tagged elements, water on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was killing time on Facebook (I know, I know) earlier today and took this “What Element are You?” Quiz. I had to laugh when I got the results. I do have a wooden statute of Yemaya in my office and I love wetlands, so I guess this fits:
As Water, your strength comes mainly from your [...]
My Coke Rewards: Not Completely Worthless
Posted in The Foodie Files, tagged Butternut squash, Chile Verde, Foodie, Hominy on April 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
For those of you living stateside, I’m sure you’re well aware of the My Coke Rewards program. You know what I’m talking about — the program where you save your bottle caps and type the codes from them into a website. Each cap is worth 3 points; 12 packs are worth 20; and those mega-sized [...]
Reading While Sick: Teen Vampires, Excited Boars, and Penile Rings
Posted in It's My Life, pop culture, tagged Books, pop culture on April 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When I’m sick, I tend to curl up in bed and read. I have only one rule: I don’t read anything related to my research. I mean, what’s the point of reading work-related books when you’re at home, nose raw from snot-drippage, back painfully sore from coughing so hard? It’s not like I’d remember anything [...]
