( Did quite a bit, really )

I was at my desk for a total of 1.2 hours today, mostly spent dealing with email and updating some patron records. The rest of the time was spent on student evals, desk, lunch with a visiting speaker, going to the speaker's talk/reception, and dealing with a hiring documentation problem ( Read more... )

I listened to George Winston's album December on the way to work this morning. His rendition of "The Holly and the Ivy" is perhaps my very favorite song of the season. What holiday song(s) do you like best?

I'm grading the last batch of quizzes, and this time I put as a bonus question, "Name 5+ of Santa's reindeer or 3+ holiday songs," which seemed suitably generic and non-sectarian ( Read more... )

Much less problematic than the earlier poll today, I hope. *g ( Read more... )

From juniperus.

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload, if you feel like it) 5 songs that start with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

She gave me C, for Celandine.

( Five songs beginning with C )

Eleven hours of sleep last night, but I'm still kind of tired. Have had lunch w/ colleague, done a fair bit of grading, and am about to go see student research presentations. Also have found several more articles that I hope will be useful for the conference paper. Then a bit more grading and the departmental awards banquet. One more day of ( Read more... )

Got this message and link from a friend ( Read more... )

Thank you, thrihyrne! Look at all this music I get to listen to now - and I've never even heard of most of the songs, or artists. Woo hoo!

FiL gave us an iPod Photo for Xmas and I've been fooling around with copying many of my cds to iTunes on the desktop. Not sure that I'll personally use the iPod all that much, but it's urged me to think about making cd versions of some of the many mixed tapes that I created over the past 20 years. Which is also encouraging me to spend Xmas money ( Read more... )