So, the book for my course won’t be in until Friday.  We were supposed to cover four chapters this week.  My students are lost.  I did some lecturing today because if they haven’t read the material, I can’t expect them to discuss it.  One student had asked me to send her a copy of the [...]

Yesterday’s class went okay, I think.  I had the students set up blogs and then make their first post.  Afterward, we discussed their posts and spent some time talking about what they had to say.  Then, we moved on to my lecturing, basically, about the first chapter of the book, which I’m not having them [...]

So far, the RNG meals are going quite well.  As I wrote earlier, the first two meals were a success.  We then had stuffed red peppers, which were quite yummy.  The cabbage on the side was especially and surprisingly good, though I will say that in the future, unless I’m getting it from the farmer’s [...]

I’ve become accustomed to a certain flow around here, a flow that goes pretty slowly most days.  But now, with a class that meets from 10-12, a half-hour commute, lunch, exercise . . . suddenly, here I am at 2:38, finally with some time to myself.  Luckily, I don’t need to plan class tomorrow.  Over [...]

Today, I have a question for you.  What are some jobs you’d do if you weren’t doing what you’re doing now?  These are things that seem fun to you, that you do as an amateur but would never pursue professionally, etc.  Here are mine: A wine maker, or similarly a sommelier. A chef.  Pastry chef [...]

I’m having an interesting confluence of various parts of my life this week. I’ve been prepping for the course I’ll be teaching, beginning next week.  I’m teaching pre-service teachers about using technology in their classes.  I’m using a textbook to provide some scaffolding for all of us, since some of the specifics of teaching in [...]

I was going to post this earlier, but wanted to get the WoW post up first. I caught most of this Tell Me More segment yesterday in the car.  They reference this article about volunteering in a rich school.  Something I’ve blogged about before.  I don’t feel pressured to volunteer necessarily, but I do think [...]

I’m fighting a losing battle with it.  Every day this week so far, I got up, got the kids off to school and started working.  I started building my class blog, making detailed notes for the first week of class, reading the textbook.  I wrote a little.  But what I want to do is take [...]

In the new dungeon system where one ends up running dungeons with complete strangers, failure happens more often than it did before and happens within a context that lacks any trust whatsoever.  On my 80 death knight, this has been less true, though I’ve seen new tanks and new 80s fail pretty royally.  As I [...]

It was here, this year.  Though I knew plenty of people attending, both blogger people and people from my various former institutions, I didn’t contact anyone to do anything.  And no one contacted me, so there ya go.  Because I read so many academic blogs, particularly those in Rhetoric and Composition and in other English [...]