Posted in It's My Life, The Professoriate, tagged Academia, campus, Roundabout on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Good:
The Coach’s team kicked some butt on Friday night. A 54-15 victory.
My dean just cancelled our Tuesday meeting for this week. Woot!
Lasagna for dinner tonight.
It was 56 degrees this morning. No sweat!
I am leaving at 1:30 today. Isn’t tenure a marvelous thing?
The Coach’s best friend from college will be pulling into Sorta’ Cosmopolitan around 3:30 [...]
Posted in It's My Life, The Professoriate, tagged Advising, Goals, Wish List on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cognitive Dissonance: On the way to work the other day, I saw the most amazing combination of bumper stickers on a van — one was for Jesus. The other? Big Boobs. Sigh.
Clothing Drama: I bought a new skirt on a whim last week. I ordered it a size smaller than normal and it was still [...]
Posted in The Professoriate, tagged Academia, Advising on August 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’m going to be advising until 6 p.m. tonight … regular programming will return tomorrow.
Posted in The Professoriate, tagged administrativa, retreat on August 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Sigh. When I get back, I’ll have to fill out Profgrrrrl’s scorecard.
Posted in The Professoriate, tagged Academia, Resolutions on August 24, 2009 | 6 Comments »
In honor of today’s University-wide “Back-to-School” meeting, I offer you my New School Year Resolutions. For some reason I thought that I had a long standing tradition of posting these each year, but apparently, I haven’t done this since 2007. I guess I forgot to do them last year while I was working on the [...]
Posted in The Professoriate, tagged Academia, Research on August 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Ah, we’ve come to that point in the summer where it’s time to think about how much research I can complete over the next nine months. Like I’ve said several times, I’m afraid that I’ve sacrificed my research on the altar of administration. Around here, it seems like most people stop doing research once they [...]
Posted in The Professoriate, tagged Academia, Tenure on August 20, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I’m feeling fairly reflective these days. You know, thinking deep thoughts and all that jazz. Maybe it’s the fact that I’ve achieved many of the goals I set out for myself (bought a house, got tenure, got promoted). Maybe it’s the approaching school year. Maybe it’s the fact that The Coach is back to football, [...]
Posted in The Professoriate, tagged Academia, Tenure on August 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It’s official. Summer is over. That’s right – Fall Semester is only two more class meetings, a pile of grading, and an administrative retreat away. Granted, the students won’t be back for a couple of weeks, but we have this pesky week of required university and college meetings that signals the beginning of a new [...]
Posted in This F***ing Old House, tagged gable, House on August 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Disappearing Contractor,
I am writing this email to ask when you will be coming out to fix the gable on our house (1234 Every Street, Sorta’ Cosmopolitan). You met with my husband, The Coach, back in June and said that you would stand by your work. You also said that you would be out in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged language on August 14, 2009 | Enter your password to view comments
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