Starting a research project
Well, we didn’t start a research project, but it was the first meeting where we started to put short-term timelines together for who does what.
Magical moments
Every once in a while, students will say or do something that takes your breath away, and you trust that something you did as a teacher helped set that moment up. Today, I was lucky, and a student was luckier. A student group in each of my sections today organized a part of class around […]
Juggling obligations
Thirty minutes before my 10 a.m. class, I need to write down the scores of the class’s students on last week’s quiz, and I’m also working on two papers, one the chapter I worked on over the weekend and one fun, very short article manuscript I’m hoping to send off this week. I suppose it […]
Faster transcription and going-out-of-business sales
I went to the configuration file and stripped out half of the things that were starting up with the computer, and that solved the problem—transcription is much faster now (the desktop’s working right now on that). Yes, I’m back in the office on Sunday. The chapter is dictated, mostly transcribed, and needs references and editing. […]
Working at the library
By Sherman Dorn on March 26, 2001
Elizabeth (my spouse) and I walked to the new library branch this morning, my first time to walk there since it opened almost six weeks ago. The county added two stretches of sidewalk to connect the library’s to the others on the street, so it was a very pleasant stroll. I brought my student’s quizzes […]
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