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Pacing oneself
I’ve been spending several hours each day since the 25th on some EPAA editing duties. The end of the semester put me behind on a number of tasks on the journal, and if there is a professional New Year’s resolution for 2008, it is to devote enough time regularly to the journal to scramble back […]
Wondering when the ton of bricks falls inside my head, and other occupational hazards of teaching
Because of my grading obligations, I haven’t had too much chance to think about Oliver Bernsdorff, a Pinellas County teacher and former USF student who killed his family and then himself Friday morning. That night, I talked with a friend and colleague who also knew him and we went over the obvious questions you’d ask […]
Damn
Pardon my French, but I knew him when he was a student at USF. I have to finish grading, so there probably won’t be any more entries for a few days.
Dabbling, and not too well
I’m trying to get a few things done today, here and there, and I think I don’t concentrate that well when my family is in the house. Evidence: “historiography literature” in an e-mail I wrote, when historiography is the history literature (when it isn’t the study of the history literature). Can I just crawl into […]
Far behind and loving it
I’m still in post-travel work-lag, which for me lasts longer than jetlag. Not including personal projects I have student work to read, journal editing to do, union stuff, university governance projects, follow-ups to this weekend’s conference, several side projects (one of them suggested by someone who wants me to be more effective at journal editing-thanks […]