It seems crazy that today is the last day of work before Christmas. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. Really? What happened to this year? Just a second ago Claire and I were having a romantic getaway in Petosky and here were are at the end of December already. I think I have all my shopping done. I need one tiny little thing to fill out somebody's ( Read more... )

Here's the video of when I graduated:

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Right now it is snowing outside and the wind is blowing something fierce. It's 34 degrees and it's supposed to drop down to the teens tomorrow. They're talking 15 degrees as the high temperature ( Read more... )

Since I'm done with all of the work for my Master's degree, I can get back to the very serious business of inane blogging and posting silly pictures on teh Internets.

Like this one, of me sitting in the office working on my last paper. It's chilly in the house, yo!


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Last night did not go as well as I wanted it to go. Class went fine. I'm struggling with motivation right now...one paper and one group project to go, plus at least one maybe two more mini-papers for my independent study, plus my portfolio to put together and then I graduate. In one month. I'm feeling both overwhelmed and totally relaxed about ( Read more... )

So I've heard a lot about Google Wave recently, mostly as I've been getting google alerts about cyberinfrastructure, metadata, and cloud computing and trying to view those through the lens of potential effects on higher education and higher education administration specifically. I'm reading a lot about e-archives and open access and scholarly ( Read more... )

Grades were due yesterday (I got a "P" in my independent study...) so that means that today is the day that we clear Summer candidates for graduation. I'm denying a *lot* of students. It's just the way it goes in summer. Some of them know it because they've already enrolled for Fall courses, but some of them will be receiving an e-mail later ( Read more... )

I'm back at work for the first time since Wednesday, July 22 ( Read more... )

The problem is that I have no confidence in anything that I'm writing and therefore I am already second-guessing words even before they are typed.

I was hoping to crank out another piece for my independent study and make some progress on my Comparative paper today. It's almost 2:00pm. Where did the day go? I'm totally screwed.

Things are o.k ( Read more... )