In today’s work email I found not one, but two, requests for overrides into my upper-division class next spring. These were the eleventh and twelfth such requests I’ve received in the past two weeks. That class doesn’t begin for—what?—two months. But I teach at a public university, and even after what the local papers have [...]
Archive for November, 2009
13 Nov
Cheezed off
It must be the weather, or maybe the threat of swine flu, but, between screaming at slow-moving strangers and what happened yesterday, I fear I am losing my Pollyanna touch. Gentle reader, I am cheesed off.
Yesterday, partly to burnish my “student engagement” cred, I was coordinating a project with some former and future students, and [...]
7 Nov
H8er!
I’ve been feeling so crappy lately that, at this very moment, I’m missing my department’s Big Event of the season. Wouldn’t want to sneeze on the dignitaries’ cheese cubes and chardonnay, which are nothing to sneeze at in this economy. As much as part of me must acknowledge how being magnificently sick has been a [...]
3 Nov
What’s “independent” got to do with it?
This is not a political post. But if you live where an election is going on, then go get your vote on. Well? What are you waiting for?
That’s better.
Anyway, spring classes have opened for registration. After a year of dodging graduate classes, I have been assigned a grad seminar that meets during the graveyard shift. [...]
