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Mostly useless… except for blogging
I don’t know if any other bloggers has the experience I occasionally do, of wondering if people ever read my blog to see if I’m skipping work that I owe them. At almost any time, I owe scads of work to others, and I suppose they might all think I’m shirking my work when I […]
Stopping by the office on a steamy morning
Whose words these are you darned well know.My house is not on campus, thoughI’ve stumbled in by instinct. Gutshave steered me through the traffic flow. My teenagers must think me nuts.I work when they lie on their… beds;you smile upon their summer ease?Through morning steam the concrete juts and swallows cars and spits out keysand […]
Sifting priorities, micro and macro
I had such good intentions this morning. After dropping off my daughter at the High School o’ SATs, I figured I’d sit in the local Starbucks and read student work while she was wearing down No. 2 pencils. So there I was at about 7:45 in the morning, listening to slightly-too-loud Sinatra and reading drafts […]
Clemson, prestige, and reputation
Despite its attempt to claw back from an unintentional statement of truth, Clemson’s apparent manipulation/gaming of the U.S. News rankings system should give people one more reason to read Brewer, Gates, and Goldman’s In Pursuit of Prestige (library copies), about the difference between colleges and universities that try to move up the rankings, on the […]
Notes on a Sunday afternoon
About an hour ago, I was fearing that I’d have to drive again to my office because I had left feedback sheets there, in the way that I realized last night I had goofed during the week, failed to print them out and failed to bring home the right cable to transfer student papers from […]