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Off to Chicago
My flight is delayed 40 minutes, so I have a few more seconds of free Tampa airport wireless. I’m a delegate to the AFT national convention this weekend, and I have no idea how much time I’ll have online. I’ve brought some work with me in case I get bored (ha!). I return in the […]
Plodding as a survival strategy
There’s something about work-related socialization: after being sick earlier this week and the holiday, something in my brain told me I had to spend at least half a day working. I am sure that within 20 or 30 years, a neuropsychologist will be able to tell me why I have this impulse. (And I am […]
Sara Goldrick-Rab keeps things in perspective
So what do you do when your new career as an assistant professor lands you on the front page of the New York Times as an icon of the “moderating” professoriate? If you’re Sara Goldrick-Rab, you laugh a bit about the article’s oversimplification and then enjoy the attention. And hope for a bit of time […]
Ambitions derailed…
It’s about 6:30 p.m. on July 3. I think I’m over the cold, but I’m still snowed under, right before a holiday weekend. Tomorrow is for citizenship, but I think I’ll have to dig myself out from under the backlog over the weekend. As a result, blogging is likely to be either light over the […]
Summer colds
Sign of a head cold: when you get about 20% of what you expected done in the morning. So I took the afternoon off and for the first time in more than a year, took sick leave. That’s rare for faculty, since we have flexible schedules. But I figured that if I was going to […]