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https://twitter.com/janineannett/status/1328793205031268352?s=20 https://twitter.com/underthenettle/status/1328670184924700674?s=20 Simply amazing they couldn't figure it out. pic.twitter.com/MLuf7DIxOo — Baker (@TheRyanBaker) November 17, 2020 https://twitter.com/xx_Symmetry/status/1328758579084537863?s=20 This is literally the best thing I’ve ever read #kidlit Donald and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Election – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://t.co/Fvip6F8q4p — Robin 🌈🦈 (@sf_robin) November 17, 2020 pic.twitter.com/CX6CYUwtz6 — Lindz McLeod (@lindzmcleod) November
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Those of you who’ve been following this blog awhile are familiar with the ups and downs of my attitude toward work, coupled with midlife-crisis musings. The thing is, when I look at my posts from even two or three years ago, I can’t believe how invested I was in my work. And, on good days,
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Bleurgh, indeed. I worked all weekend and am understandably exhausted now that the new week has started. This is the part of the semester when I get really angry over all the things I have to do, and I am doubly pissed because I swear there is more service now, in the middle of the
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Sorry folks, I’ve been working nonstop through the weekend. *insert weeping-face emoji* Here is some levity.
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A friend of the blog has a thought-provoking long essay on the challenges of teaching students who lack the necessary math skills, but want to get a degree in a math-heavy major. Teaching Physics to the Mathless
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Today was nuts. Many meetings for service and mentoring, family obligations, people just generally needing stuff… Hubs and I had our wills done; today was the ceremonious signing in front of a witness. (For someone whose job has nothing to do with law, I sure know a lot of lawyers. Met a bunch (a big
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I unofficially measure how busy and pulled in every direction I am by the daily number of almosts. Here is an example: I get an email from a student, decide what I will write back, maybe even draft it, then get pulled away by another email, or one of my kids needing something, or having
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Sometimes I feel like I grownup. Usually when I achieve something on behalf of my kids or my students. Other times, I feel like such an infant. This involves being in a position of some authority — chair of a committee, for example. I feel like I am a kid wearing Dad’s shoes. Like someone
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Some time in your mid 40s you stop saying I took a walk and start saying I took MY walk. pic.twitter.com/LDMtOTDUSu — 🇺🇦 Dean Bakopoulos 🇺🇦 (@DeanBakopoulos) November 9, 2020 To be fair, Angel was the right boyfriend for Buffy coming into her power. Spike was the right man to be with as she became
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From a review of my proposal submitted to a federal funding agency: “This proposal envisages using [name of approach], which (to my surprise) has up to now not been used for [specific systems] and which I consider very promising. So this goal on its own is highly original and valuable.” From the introduction to a
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