{"id":919,"date":"2007-04-02T22:22:23","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T02:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=919"},"modified":"2007-04-02T22:22:23","modified_gmt":"2007-04-03T02:22:23","slug":"notes-from-the-underground-academic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the underground academic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tidbits from the last few days:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been so busy with various things that I forgot to note that two days after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shermandorn.com\/Accountability-Frankenstein.html\">Accountability Frankenstein<\/a> appeared on my doorstep, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunypress.edu\/details.asp?id=61384\">Education Reform in Florida<\/a> appeared at my office. Two books in three days: not bad. <\/li>\n<li>Tomorrow I head to Atlanta and a talk Wednesday at Emory. Gotta finish the PPT slides and transfer to a thumb drive! (Going to go security-blanket-less&#8230; I mean, travel without my laptop.)<\/li>\n<li>I got jury service postponed, so I&#8217;m going to AERA&#8230; for one day.&nbsp; Yikes!&nbsp; Wednesday at noon I&#8217;ll be at the Information Age Publishing exhibit (booths 508 &amp; 510). Two one-day trips in two weeks.&nbsp; Definitely the way to punish my body, but longer would be punishing my family.<\/li>\n<li>Some positive stuff in my program area (curriculum-wise) is just over the horizon, a good thing.<\/li>\n<li>I picked up business cards for the journal and hope that they can appear before AERA in the mailboxes of the editorial-board members who sent me their addresses. (There were two other business-card orders, too, one for <em>Accountability Frankenstein<\/em> and the other for the hat I now wear as faculty union chapter president. But it was the EPAA\/AAPE card order that was urgent.)<\/li>\n<li>My daughter appreciated the unit-circle explanation of sine and cosine tonight (which I always thought made more sense than the opposite-\/adjacent-leg definition). <\/li>\n<li>My son and daughter each had public music performance opportunities this weekend. <\/li>\n<li>Second day of being chapter president, and I drafted a more serious agenda.&nbsp; And I prepared the last of the materials for the new chapter treasurer. We need to get her on the signature card for the account, something that I&#8217;ve given myself a good incentive for: I have some receipts, but I didn&#8217;t make the check out myself. So I only get reimbursed when I get the transfer done successfully. Agendas, getting rid of old responsibilities&#8230; as long as there are no politics involved, my time in office will be a complete success!&nbsp; Oh, darn, &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>And I even cleaned my office a tiny bit.&nbsp; My desk is now in organized piles of junk instead of disorganized piles.&nbsp; (The disorganized piles have migrated elsewhere in the office.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tidbits from the last few days: I&#8217;ve been so busy with various things that I forgot to note that two days after Accountability Frankenstein appeared on my doorstep, Education Reform in Florida appeared at my office. Two books in three days: not bad. Tomorrow I head to Atlanta and a talk Wednesday at Emory. Gotta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy","category-random-comments","category-writing-and-editing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-eP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}