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itting the big 5-Oh–I am learning oh so painfully–has its physiological drawbacks. My knees ache. My back hurts. Even my jaws don’t do as I ask. I now have to do jaw stretches. For someone who talks as much as I do, you’d think that this was unnecessary, but that is not the case. I [...]
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kay, exams are over, the academic year has ended, I put up a vacation message on my “official” school e-mail–I am away during break, and will not access my e-mail. Your message regarding $subject$ will be read when I return.–and I am officially free to do… my work. Yes, as an academic, I am expected [...]
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his is a bit belated, but congratualtions to all the graduates, especially mine! They all graduated on Sunday, and some of us clebrated with a beer at the local watering hole. I’ve been buried with grading this past couple of weeks, but I did manage to help out with our departmental graduation reception–where I posed [...]
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am not fond of the current administration, as many of you probably already know. I don’t think that the president, as a person, is a bad man. Quite the contrary, he seems very likeable. The operative word is “seems”. He manifests a penchant for keeping his close friends close and everyone else at arms length. [...]
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t is that time of season once again… Finals. I am always faced with this dilemma: Is it better to study for finals and take them? Or is it better to give finals and then grade them. Well, as a former student who loved being a student, I must say that taking a final is [...]
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kay, I know that I said that the semester is over, but I still have finals. Worse, I have students who forgot to take a quiz or turn in a paper. I scold them, remind them of the evils of being irresponsible and then accept their work, albeit late. Yes, I accept their excuses and [...]
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es, that’s right, Ladies and Gentlemen, classes for Academic Year 2005-6 are over! Yes, I know that I have to grade finals, and that in itself is like a semester’s worth of work, but still….IT’S OVER!
Woo hoo! As I mentioned before, I’ve been working straight for years, YEARS, I tell ya, and I am [...]
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n spite of how robust the economy is going according to Bush, it hasn’t reached my level yet. I swear I am saddened everytime he says the economy is growing to the benefit of ALL Americans, because it seems that he is only referring to that ten percent of the population making six figure salaries [...]
