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Day off
After the fourth all-day Saturday class in June (i.e., yesterday), when I wasn’t feeling well, I collapsed at home and decided I’d take today off. And I have. I’ll need to gear up tomorrow morning for a day of catch-up, but there are only a few things to fix on tomorrow’s EPAA article, and without […]
A big, hairy erratum
There are a few disadvantages of writing a blog. People who wonder why I haven’t gotten around to their work discover what I’ve been doing instead at certain moments (though I’ve never had a student who has decided that she or he really wants me grading their paper at 6:09 am). Without someone else to […]
I don’t need this excitement, honestly
2:37 Apparently, a man with a rifle was spotted near a USF Tampa campus building several hundred yards from here. We were warned to stay away from that building, and while there’s been no all-clear sign, someone in our building with a line of sight to that space says that the law-enforcement cordons and personnel […]
One additional bit of news
The letter from my university’s president with the following snippet showed up in my department mailbox sometime in the last few days, but I’m counting it with yesterday’s birthday stuff: I now have to cross out a few hundred copies of “Associate” on the remaining stash of my USF business cards. (If someone decides to […]
Mental drops in a scattered morning
Some odd thoughts this morning as I catch up on a bunch of things (but probably not enough): The key difference between great colloquial writing and great formal writing is how efficient the formal writing is. There are some vocabulary differences (colloquial writing uses slang, while formal writing generally avoids it), but too many undergraduate […]