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The academic life

Brain… dripping… out… editor’s… ears…

I’ve done about all I can on editing today. I still have e-mails from last week I need to respond to, reviewers to nag, disposition e-mails to write, … but I’ve been in my office for over 8 hours, mostly alone, and if you are waiting for me to send you something, please understand that […]

TimePal…

I am now accepting all donations of hours, days, and weeks. I’m afraid I can no longer accept donations of minutes because of the declining exchange rate between EDT and Work Completed. All odd minutes are good for is writing short blog entries. And I would have created a clever “TimePal” icon as a PayPal […]

May progress notes

All May birthdays and the anniversary are now done, all but two of the musical events are done, and one of the two belt tests are done. We know roughly how many faculty are being laid off at my university (very few, which is good, but many staff, which is bad). I’m far behind on […]

Summertime freedom … sort of, and not quite yet

I’ve spent much of the last week tying up odds and ends, from my part in our department’s annual reviews to finalizing a syllabus and looking at some data. Now it’s into the summer… sort of. I am relieved that my class this summer is an all-day Saturday affair in June and July, not because […]

Interstices

The semester has ended, the graduation I attended is over, the legislative session has finished, and the Crazy May events (multiple birthdays, recitals, concerts, etc.) have not yet begun. I had some bureaucratic stuff to do over the weekend that would have been Very Nice to have done a week earlier, so I celebrated the […]