One of the worst things a teacher can do at October’s end, in my learned opinion, is look at the calendar. Nothing good can ever come of it.
The past week was an odd one. In defiance of science I’ve been harboring a nice, steady fever of about 101, yet without any pesky symptoms to tell [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Polymaths and Aftermaths
Posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Reading Readings
Posted in Uncategorized on October 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The academic life is fraught with horrors–fraught I say!–and none more unnerving than the Monday night class.
I kid, I kid; everyone knows that Wednesday night class is where we keep the horror. Monday night classes are, in contrast, the bomb-diggity. You heard me: the bomb-diggity, with a hyphen. The batch of students I’ve got this [...]
Chronicle of a Faceplant Foretold
Posted in Uncategorized on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It started on Friday.
I woke, as I always do, around 4:30am. I cannot explain this particular habit, so let’s just let it slide. By 4:45 I had my protein shake in hand and was answering student e-mails; by 5:15 I had dipped into the batch of exams that I had to grade. My process for [...]
The Perils of PowerPoint
Posted in Uncategorized on October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been a delinquent blogger of late, as you’ve probably noticed. This semester is filthy with commitments, most of them time-consuming, and as a result the odd hours I might devote to these jottings have become a little more elusive. I’m also trying to weed out some of the more narcissistic navel-gazery (avid and/or obsessive [...]
