Slowly slipping back into school mode. I'm waking up at 6:30 am (but still going to bed at 12 -got to fix that).
My Mom got me a light box for Xmas since she worries about me being affected by SAD in the Winter. So I'm sitting next to it this morning trying to rewire my circadian rhythms. Awfully BRIGHT for this early in the morning.

We finally ( Read more... )

Here I am crawling into bed at 12:00 AM. I'm trying to be a good girl and get to bed at a reasonable time so that I can get up at a reasonable time tomorrow.
Yes, it's true. Tomorrow is the beginning of the Winter semester. Sigh.
That break went by way too fast. Fast as it was, it still didn't prevent me from slipping into my night owl schedule ( ( Read more... )

I feel the need to post something and the easy way out would be to just catch people up on what has been going on the past week or so.

Yesterday in iai, it was HOT!  In the low nineties and the gym we practice in has no air conditioning.  Sensei said "Excellent! This will be a great training opportunity!" and then he turned off the fans and turned ( Read more... )

There is nothing like unstructured time to let you know what really motivates you. In my case, it is real, not self imposed deadlines (duh), and knowing that I will be speaking in front of an audiience.
I'm going to Northwestern U. on Thursday to talk research and get some advice on how best to package and "sell" my research to the journals.
I still ( Read more... )

I had promised myself I would not get started on the sabbatical work of writing (mainly), updating my web pages, and getting caught up on the literature until the Winter semester started January 7th.
I also promised myself to wrap up the unfinished business of last semester of writing letters of recommendation, and getting the Meeting of Minds ( Read more... )

One of my Google news feeds is HowStuffWorks. Today I saw a post I never expected to see. HowStuffWorks set out to explain the Ignobel prizes!

The Ignobel prizes are the humorous counterpart to the Nobel prizes. The prizes are awarded for real world accomplishments in health, politics, economics, technlogy, and science. It is real research and real ( Read more... )

My son sent me the following link last night:  www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/12/a_guide_to_grad.html.

As explained in the post, the purpose of the post "is to serve as a guide to young professors about how to perfect their grading skills and as a way for students to learn the mysterious science of how their grades are determined."

The ( Read more... )

*BIG grin*

Just finished my last face-to-face interaction with my class for the next NINE MONTHS!!!!

Okay.
This is it.
I have to stop surfing and get down to grading now! Really!

Maybe a coffee first.
I think the dishes need to be washed too.
And then there is the laundry.

And it doesn't appear that I am ending this post.

Somebody stop me before I procrastinate again!!
AAAAUUUGGGHHH!!


( Read more... )

The end of the semester grading crunch is upon us ( Read more... )