Some time this week I have to: proctor a make-up exam, read until my eyes bleed, schedule a room for a talk, deal with the other talk, iron my dress shirts, and shoo the damn pigeons and starlings away.  Shadow will go crazy if she has to deal with them every morning. Hell, I' ( Read more... )

March Madness does not refer to basketball.  It refers to students driving me up a wall and the amount of work that got dumped into my lap this week.  Oh, and my parents are visiting next Friday ( Read more... )

- for TA meeting today at 5pm, have an A, B, & C example. Figure out when the damn things are due back to the students and if they are due back in section, finish grading exams. Due Wednesday.

- for Ital 420, read Morgante selections & take notes. Due Tuesday AM.

- for seminar at 4pm tomorrow, look at the manuscripts in: the Architecture closed ( Read more... )

... is organizing a talk for a visiting professor.  The idea sounded great back in the fall, but now I feel like I'm getting the run-around.  Stop assuming I know what I'm doing because I don't and be courtesy by telling me where and how to contact people.  Just because I'm a graduate student doesn't mean I know everything!  Kthxbye ( Read more... )

I have 40+ three to four page papers to grade and 141 pages to read on Impressionist art by Friday. Then a meeting with a prof. Then making vegetarian friendly appetizers / niblets.
Then I have essays on medieval art to read, graded papers to turn in, and a bibliography plus topic abstract and journal article critique to research and write by ( Read more... )

Paper #2 is done. On to paper #3.  (except that Gmail IS STILL WORKING! Hmmm, me thinks my professor's mailbox is full ( Read more... )

First order of business... I'm falling off the face of the world for the next two weeks. Maybe three. Feel free to contact me after Dec. 12th.

Secondly... awesomeness is watching TV shows and movies on your laptop while you plug away at editting images in Photoshop on another computer!