Not working
Well, not exactly not working—I watered plants this morning, hope to play basketball with my son in a short time, and will fly up to Ohio for a work trip tonight and come back tomorrow night. I’m headed out for a memorial service in New Mexico on Thursday, so the "workweek" will be short but […]
Most enjoyable transferable skills
Over the past ten days, I’ve carried on a correspondence with a graduate student at another institution who is having problems with her advisor and wondering if she can do anything with her skills if "professoring" doesn’t work out. Among other bits, I brought out our dogeared copy of Richard Bolles’ What Color Is Your […]
Tying up loose ends and creating others
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. […]
No work
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!
Working and Partying
By Sherman Dorn on May 15, 2001
Academics either have the last of the preindustrial jobs or the first postindustrial jobs, because we can work any time on our stuff but generally have flexible schedules. Today’s a good example. I have several things I need to do this week on the summer projects and writing, but it’s also my son’s sixth birthday […]
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