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Quantum scheduling
If last week was the interrupted-work week, the next few weeks is the quantum-scheduling period of the semester. I still have a jury summons for April, a matter that is always uncertain until the facts are observed (i.e., whether I’m on a jury, or if I ask for a postponement, whether I receive one). And right […]
One of those days when the walrus stomps on your toe while reading sonnets…
In several ways, the day has been quite good, from discovering that the way a friend and I had thought of poking around the back of Richard Ingersoll’s work is quite interesting in the results to completing several critical errands. Then there are the other things, from driving 50 miles in city traffic starting at […]
Caution: Life changes ahead
This weekend is the beginning of my spring break, and a colleague and I were joking about how we’re so well-socialized that we think of break as an opportunity to clear some of the work backlog. Yes, I’ll also relax. I can’t quite announce something officially yet (no, it’s not a job switch, exactly), but […]
Dear stranger grad student
Yes, dear grad student at another institution, I have received your e-mails imploring me to participate in your online survey of faculty’s interest in splotnik and splotnik needs, but I don’t wish to participate. I’m offended that you’ve spammed me for research purposes, and I hope your advisor is asking how you are selecting targets, […]
E-mail early April 1, 2007
By Sherman Dorn on April 1, 2007
Colleagues, The following is a draft agenda for the April 6 chapter meeting. Please let me know if there are things that need to be added and deleted. Please also remember that this is my initials agenda, and as the saying goes, “Any president really is like falling off open lake systems.” Sherman Approval of […]
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