Rain, rain, go away

Water in the basement again. Though thanks to the new shop vac (acquired after the last round of water) it was much easier for DH to clean up.  Soppy wet bath towels are not the best way to go.
A friend suggested taking the white Maine Coon to a nearby vet to see if she has [...]

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Random bullets of TGIF – oh, wait, I have to work tomorrow :-(

Look what I scored at the Dollar Spot at my local Target! It’s one of those nylon backpack-style drawstring bags that I have decided make wonderful medium-sized project bags. Happy Bunny yarn project bags for a buck. How cool is that?

I’m back from the conference of the Proceedings of Doom. It was nice [...]

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Stuff and Things

Fall semester starts too soon. The hunt for the ever elusive parking space will begin in earnest. I should get up an hour earlier to get a parking space but I won’t. I’ll walk from the back 40 and grumble.

People who get selected to submit papers for conference proceedings should be able to submit [...]

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Random bullets of Typhoid ChaosGirl

Now DH has strep.

My throat is sore again but not so bad. I’m ignoring it in hopes it will go away.

My doctor wants to biopsy a mole on the bottom of my foot.  The bottom. of. my. foot. people.  That sounds incredibly obnoxious, annoying, painful, and also most likely expensive.  I’m ignoring that too [...]

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Middle of Summer Update

So, technically it’s more like 2/3 of the way through summer. Whatever. Here’s the progress on the “To Do” list:

 Finish qualifying exams.  I have questions approved by my chair but not by the retiring member of the committee. I’m set to write on 8/8 and have oral defense sometime around the first of September.  The [...]

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The rice jinx stikes again

Just because it was called “rice casserole” doesn’t make it work any better. I tried and it just didn’t work so no recipe. I can tell you that I found myself in a Penzey’s Spices recently and they totally rock. I bought little jars of several things to try and it was [...]

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An interesting conversation

For those interested in faculty development, instructor/technology expert/instructional design interaction, and instructional teams, there is an interesting conversation going on between Steve at Pedablogy and Laura at Geeky Mom and various commenters.
To follow the trail, start at Fishing v/s Teaching to Fish
then go to Response to Teaching to Fish
with a side trip to Beware of [...]

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Ponderings on the space between semesters

Every year I think I can make this time productive and every year I’m thwarted.
I’m sitting here in my office on an almost completely deserted campus.  It’s kind of nice.  Peaceful.  Quiet.  Conducive to planning for the next term.  The thing is . . .

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Banging head against desk

The whine: I’m compiling the interview transcripts from the class research project and there is one person that decided to vent her frustration and repressed anger at the fact that I and the other instructors in the program require students to take responsibility for their own learning and don’t spoon feed them 24/7. I [...]

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Yes, I’m still alive

I know. I know. I’ve been AWOL for a while. Not that I don’t have a million-zillion things to do right now but I feel I should update and try to sort some stuff out.
The conference was great. We had about 30-40 people at our session, which is TONS more that I thought we would [...]

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