Surely there is some subset of Murphy's Law that states that the moment you agree to take over a person's job temporarily -- either in case of a family emergency or while that person is away for a week on vacation -- will be the exact moment that every problem that person has even slightly ignored or helped create in the past will come to light, ( Read more... )

So a couple weeks ago, I was all set to go in to work at 10 on a Saturday morning when I got a series of frantic phone calls around 9:20 going WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU AND WHY WEREN'T YOU HERE TWENTY MINUTES AGO!!! Fortunately, the mix-up was only marginally my fault, and my boss is the understanding type, but still ( Read more... )

If you're looking for me over the next several months, here's a quick graphical representation of where you're likely to find me:

( where's W2? )

A couple weeks ago, $Area_University sent out an email to Temple saying that they were looking for a Ph.D student to adjunct-teach the following class:Ideas of the New Testament: Major themes in teachings of Jesus, Paul, and other figures. Ethical motifs receive special attention, as does on-going influence of these ideas on Western literature, ( Read more... )

Vatican Official Insists He's Not GayVATICAN CITY (AP) - A Vatican official suspended after being caught on hidden camera making advances to a young man says he is not gay and was only pretending to be gay as part of his work ( Read more... )

If you'd asked me two years ago to guess at what I'd be doing a year out of grad school, 'teaching' would definitely have made the list, 'teaching kids' would have been slightly farther down the list of possibilities, and 'teaching kids math' would have been right out ( Read more... )

beeblebabe's post about her co-workers makes me sad -- not because it's a sad story at all, but because I'm jealous as all get-out of a work environment where nearly every conversation is not about how terribly fatty everything except air is.

( cut for excessive whinery.... )

One of the things that always surprises me about work is how nasty teenagers can be to one another. I mean, we have four kids at the center right now between the ages of thirteen and nineteen whose schedules overlap with one another during the day, and I keep thinking that, you know, maybe they'll make friends, talk to one another during the breaks ( Read more... )

Now, in my life, I have spent time around people who do all sorts of 'weird' things for religious reasons, and very few things faze me anymore -- especially not when it comes to parental protectiveness of children. At my job, each clinician spends slightly under an hour in a given student's face, one-on-one, talking and moving around and ( Read more... )

Here's some exciting things I'm sure you want to know about!

New SMRT-TV issue! In which I finally do a column about Oz, something lizlet has been plotting to make me do since this whole shootin' match started.

Secondly, Wednesday is time for a new and exciting part of my internship! To quote the website: 'As part of the 50th Commission on the Status ( Read more... )