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My Wednesday morning: cleaning up dog vomit off my comforter, arriving late to work despite having left home on time due to bus delays caused by a fire on Eastlake, and then tanking horribly during my Mandarin oral exam due to under-preparation and a major case of nerves driving every word I ever learned right out of my head, all before noon. Here ( Read more... )

One of our junior-most faculty came into the office this morning to tell me that she had been laughing out loud on the bus to work while reading my minutes of the previous month's faculty meeting. It's always gratifying when someone notices. Most especially when it's my very favoritest of they junior faculty, which is a very hard won laurel, given ( Read more... )