I have survived the teaching part of my first semester of full-time professoring. There's still the grading part and various odds and ends that people generally file under the category of "service" (or "the stuff that's part of the job that no one really remembers to tell you about, like going to meetings and doing paperwork and writing letters of ( Read more... )

Grades signed, sealed, and delivered!!! *collapses* I may have to reevaluate the wisdom of making my major essay/assignment thingie due right at the end of term. Pros: relatively few late papers trickling in, and there's also a bit of the whole "pulling off the band-aid" effect (if one can pull off a bandaid for two weeks straight). Cons: I HAVE ( Read more... )

1. Done teaching for 2010!!! Still have what feels like a year's worth of grading to do, though...

2. Last two minutes of last night's Castle: too much even by their own admittedly cheeseball standards? Was there an allusion I failed to catch?

3. Is there a Sydney Bristow vid to Dar Williams's "After All"? If not, I suspect this is a situation ( Read more... )

I have a brief respite from all the work craziness in my life, and not a moment too soon. My brain and body has decided to respond to the fact that I've been working an average of 10 hour days, seven days a week, for the past three weeks solid, by refusing to go anymore. No illness, thankfully, but I spent about five hours last night lying on the ( Read more... )

1. Grading is FINISHED!!!!!!!!! Well, not entirely, but the exam marking is finished, and that's the part that has been making my brains leak out my ears the past few days. Note to self: next time you think "oh, exams go quickly, even when they're essays," remember that THIS IS NOT TRUE when there are 120 of them. Next time, I will include multiple ( Read more... )

1. A very happy birthday to de23! I hope you have a wonderful day!!!

2. From the NY Times, friendships are good for your health3. My arms are still aching from carrying home the GIANT BOX of final exams that I am now trying to grade. There are SO MANY OF THEM!!!!!!!!! I've been slogging away at the grading all morning and feel I'm barely making a dent ( Read more... )

This is getting recced far and wide, but I shall join my voice to the chorus. charmax's Unnatural Selection is one of the coolest vids I have EVER seen. It takes my two favorite robot apocalypse shows, BSG and TSCC, and tosses them together with a healthy dose of Charles Darwin, and the result is mindblowing and visually stunning. Robots, apocalypses, ( Read more... )

I made it through my weekend/Monday/Tuesday from hell, though not without roadbumps (like learning from the director of the program that something I was doing in class is actually illegal under the Freedom of Information Act...).

But I survived, and there was vodka (though no little umbrellas or pool boys! what gives, gabolange?), and B5 (almost the end of ( Read more... )