I keep trying to post a RL update, but nothing seems to want to come out. :/ I've been grading and finishing up random stuff. My cards will probably arrive to some of you late. I apologize for that, but school eats a lot of my time. I have some more grading to do, but I can't finish all of it until I do a check with the Testing Center to see if ( Read more... )

1. Whoever anonymously got me an extension on my paid account and userpics... YOU ROCK! Thank you ( Read more... )

So I'm teaching a summer class at 8 am. I was pretty confident that the class would never have to be canceled due to weather because after all, it's in the middle of summer ( Read more... )

1. I'M HUNGRY! Clearly, I need to eat. I had a salad at lunch, so my stomach is kicking me and asking me for something more substantial ( Read more... )

Here are some books I'm considering assigning for Civilization II. Thoughts?

Poll Books for Civilization II?

1. I'm hoping to have the rest of the Kane RPS ghost story up this weekend. I had a couple of due dates looming, so I had to pause the story for a bit.

2. The students in my first class played the "Who is Kane" game today when they saw my Kane shirt in class. One of the guys recognized him as "the little good-looking guy" from Leverage. One of ( Read more... )

So. I got myself out of bed after barely any sleep, and I got myself to school. The first class went pretty well, and so I headed to the next class. One of the students wandered in and told me that someone had called in a bomb threat at the school next door. I investigated and discovered that the school next door (and one of our subsidiary ( Read more... )

1. I'm still not sleeping properly. When I finally fall to sleep, I wake up a couple of hours later. I'm just not getting adequate rest ( Read more... )

It's only 1 in the afternoon where I am, and already, I've been mad productive today. I went out and ran some errands, one of which involved stopping at the university. To my surprise, the publisher finally delivered one of the books I'll be teaching in the fall semester--Life in a Medieval City by Joseph and Frances Gies. I had pretty much ( Read more... )

Every time I log onto my computer in the school where I teach, I see a mathematics program called "Wolfram." I immediately think of "Wolfram and Hart," and this begs the question: Am I to take this as further proof that math is evil? :)