Right around the end of March every spring semester, time becomes inordinately cruel. Students who can normally muster 75 minutes of steady attention start slyly glancing at the clock; obligations left pending for much of the winter season begin to gather on the horizon like stormclouds. I’m generally a fine planner and well ahead of the game, but [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Waiting, Wading
Posted in navel-gazery on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hasty Pudding
Posted in evil twins, tagged teaching on March 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, so much for spring. It was nice while it lasted.
Since I’m icebound this morning, I thought I’d squeeze in a hasty post. After that I must climb down into my essay-grading bunker, from which I may never return. I just happen to like the MRE pudding.
Over the past week I’ve enjoyed a handful of reassuring professorial moments, which [...]
Process and Progress
Posted in navel-gazery, vague allusions, tagged fodder for Freudians, on writing on March 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’re on the other side of Spring Break here at CMU, and I think the return has jarred quite a few folks into a fugue state. It’s difficult to recover the momentum built up over eight weeks of class, harder still when classes wrap up for good in the short stretch from now to April’s end. Throw in [...]
