Today was the last class day of the semester ( Read more... )

I just wanted to take a quick minute to let you know how the conference trip to Chicago turned out.

IT WAS GREAT!!!

I enjoyed the company of my conference friends and caught up with my faculty mentor. The talk went well enough that I got quite a few compliments. The dinner at Moto Friday night was the most intense, unusual, unique, culinary ( Read more... )

Today I had a nice phone call with the woman from General Motors R&D for whom I ran the workshops last Spring ( Read more... )

Awesome!  And just after I posted the PhD Comics cartoon the other day.
I just read a post in the "academics _anon" lj forum that was discussing the misperception of faculty pay by the general public.
The post addressed this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Here are the first couple of paragraphs from the article:

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Today I attended my second poetry reading. The librarians hold the poetry readings at the library the first Thursday of the month from 12-1.
The poetry readings have been going on for a year (as of today) but this is the first semester my schedule allowed me to attend (we used to have faculty meetings at this time on Thursdays).
I thought it was fun ( Read more... )

I just thought I would let people know that tomorrow I will be giving a short (15 min) talk on Creativity and Madness in my colleague's Abnormal Psychology class. She is covering mood disorders in the class and since that is the most common type of disorder amongst creative individuals (especially writers and especially female poets) it was a nice ( Read more... )

I am happy to report that passing back the exams to my creativity class wasn't as unpleasant as I thought it would be ( Read more... )

I found myself suffering from an unexpected melancholy today and I apologize for this in advance. It had no obvious determinants and just seemed to get worse as the day progressed ( Read more... )

I am halfway through the second full week of school and it feels like a month has gone by. This is an especially busy time because along with my other stuff, I am also getting the lab all put together for running subjects and observing my research assistant's first run at running real live subjects and collecting data ( Read more... )