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The academic life

One Blog Schoolhouse: the PDF

Should’ve been done a few months ago, but if you want to read the entire text of One Blog Schoolhouse, it’s now available as a nonprinting PDF. (I recommend that you click the “PDF” link in brackets, since I don’t know if scribd will convert a nonprinting PDF.) The entire thing. Absolutely free to read.

We could do without all the excitement, thank you

I was off campus by 12:30 yesterday afternoon, so I didn’t have all the fun of several reports of gunmen on the USF campus in Tampa (student-run USF Oracle, Tampa Tribune, St. Petersburg Times, CNN). As the press representative of the campus police noted, you can’t ignore called-in threats or reports, even if you think […]

Power outage

Some things you just have to laugh at. I charged out of the house this morning to get the car’s oil changed and head to my office to chug through teaching and other work stuff. In the last five hours, I’ve spent half of the time waiting for the car (and trying not to grit […]

Pausing to find my bearings

It’s been one heck of a month. As I noted a few weeks ago, I had a death in the family at the beginning of September, but for some reason I did not mention in that entry that my mother-in-law was the family member who had died. Because my wife is Peggy’s executor, we’ve had […]

Whirlwind notes

Idiosyncratic comments of the week: I found out about a death in the family last week. Fortunately, everyone on that side of the family is sane, so we only have grieving and normal headaches involved. I am going to be even further behind than I had already anticipated. Or I’ll just have to put more […]