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Oh good grief (the personal version)
Stay up late listening to the seventh game of the ALCS. Go to sleep, but not for long enough. Wake up. Shower. Dress. Drive son to school. Arrive on campus. Turn on computer. Realize you left your reading glasses at home. Drive home. Talk with spouse for a few minutes. Drive to campus. Realize you […]
Maybe Nagin’s “900-mile-wide storm” wasn’t that much of an exaggeration
I started the day with some menial tasks and will continue that for a little while more before donating blood. We’ll see if I’m good for anything tomorrow (often, I’m completely wiped out the day after donating). In the obvious news, there’s nothing like a tropical-storm windfield as large as Louisiana to get your attention […]
Summer colds
Sign of a head cold: when you get about 20% of what you expected done in the morning. So I took the afternoon off and for the first time in more than a year, took sick leave. That’s rare for faculty, since we have flexible schedules. But I figured that if I was going to […]
Mental drops in a scattered morning
Some odd thoughts this morning as I catch up on a bunch of things (but probably not enough): The key difference between great colloquial writing and great formal writing is how efficient the formal writing is. There are some vocabulary differences (colloquial writing uses slang, while formal writing generally avoids it), but too many undergraduate […]
My (undelivered) (okay, unwritten) graduation speech
Twenty-five years ago today (it’s still on the 25th anniversary in California, though it is past midnight in Florida), I graduated from Corona del Mar High School, in Orange County, California. I wasn’t at my high school graduation, because I was at the national speech tournament that year, I think in Salt Lake City. (My […]