Next year, carry—don’t wear—your regalia to your soon-to-be-former students’ commencement ceremony.
Why? Well, when I walk the few blocks between my office, where I keep my regalia, to the jumbotron-fitted site of JPU’s festivities, I am inevitably congratulated by a dozen or so misty-eyed parents and assorted other well-wishing fans of pomp and circumstance. Never mind [...]
Archive for May, 2009
17 May
Note to self
7 May
Pluck pluck pluckety pluck
Around this time every year, my colleagues and I greet each other with weary smiles and the brilliantly unoriginal observation that “It’s all over but the grading.” Until this year, I was a game participant in this ritual. Because I had structured my syllabi strategically, and because I had eaten my Wheaties, my grading is [...]
1 May
On budgets
At JPU, Spring 2009 ends neatly with the cruelest month. Fearful symmetry, that. You know what else is fearful? Well, that would be me, contemplating my American Express statement. Though a mere thirty days hath April, I blew the crap out of my budget last month. By the time my statement cuts some time next [...]
