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Of promotions and cranberry wine

I just finished the draft of my promotion-packet narratives. The whole thing is due at the end of the month, and apart from proofreading, there are other tasks to complete: Collect information on journals and my books’ publishers for my chair Collect and confirm grant information Check for consistency between tenure packet and cv Create […]

Work dross

There is something about spending six hours in a chain cafe on Sunday that is either gold or dross. In the last year, I have occasionally knocked out loads of work when leaving my family alone to relax (I hope!) while I work. Today has been humbling in terms of the lack of concrete accomplishments […]

One of those days

The bear is currently chewing on me. Extra credit for the correct identification of the folk reference (no, it’s not dirty).

Today’s priorities

On the agenda today: working on my promotion packet and on Education Policy Analysis Archives.

A Full Life

The details for the last 24 hours: 5:20 a.m., alarm clock5:30 a.m., get into shower6:00 a.m., wrangle son into car to get to bus6:10 a.m., bus picks son up6:11 a.m., head to early-morning cafe to work on simulated case for undergraduate class I’m not teaching (something a group of us have worked on over the […]