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Congratulations to all USF students graduating today. Monday is soon enough to start on summer projects. Sorry to all 0.427 readers who were expecting a pithy thought today. Check the archives!
Closing in
My daughter’s been sick, now (after my son), so grading and other work is being juggled with child care (and hanging around the house). Yesterday I rushed into the office, e-mailed myself some documents, did a few other items, and left. I graded a majority of my student quizzes remaining, so I really don’t have […]
In the middle of the storm
The papers came last Tuesday, and I’m in the midst of reading them. Tomorrow will be a long day at the office. That plus other obligations means I’m doing plenty of juggling. Vincent has had a 104 F. fever the last few days, and I took him to the doctor’s office. Some things just take […]
Home stretch or the calm before the storm
This week is the penultimate one in the semester schedule, and so work is going to start piling up. Doing nothing work-wise over the weekend was crucial to my maintaining my balance as everything comes due for students and I need to read things quickly and fairly. When I was an undergraduate and graduate student, […]
Tying up loose ends and creating others
By Sherman Dorn on May 8, 2001
My office desperately needs a river to run through it after the end-of-semester streamlining of tasks (teaching first, breathing second, everything else last). Nonetheless, I want to accomplish something concrete today. That chapter, still due in Herb Rieth’s hands, needs but two citations and a proofreading before it goes off. So it has first priority. […]
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