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Thursday was Thanksgiving, also DH’s birthday, so I cooked all day. Below: Thanksgiving spread plus the stuffed cabbage dish I always make for DH’s birthday, which will be consumed later. On Friday, roadtrip with the younger kids to an amusement park four hours away. Saturday: roadtrip to spend the afternoon with a friend from grad
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Wally asks: I’m curious if you have any advice on how to have a decent working relationship AND a collaborator/co-author relationship with someone you just can’t stand. One of my colleagues is duplicitous, a horrible gossip, trashes people (incl me) behind their backs, and tries to–and has successfully, edge people out of projects that they
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I am sorry that I’ve been a delinquent November blogger. *hangs head in shame* I went out a lot this weekend (comedy with DH on Friday; dinner with a mom friend on Saturday; show with Eldest on Sunday) and between that, home chores/stresses, and trying to walk 1-1.5 hrs every day, the time just wasn’t
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(Remember this movie? No? No surprise; I’m ancient.) I walked by my “first love house” today. We had given an offer on it in the first year here, but it had been declined. It is for the best. The house isn’t all that pretty and it’s on a busy-ish street, but it was the first
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We haven’t had The Black Keys post recently. Oh, how I adore their music. Little Black Submarines are one of my top 10 all-time favorite songs. It will shake you to the core in concert.
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jls asks: I would really love to hear your (further) thoughts about writing drafts with students and in particular how you go about teaching students to write. I know this is a subject you’ve touched on often, but right now the work I need to get done is almost 100% editing student drafts, and let’s
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Stan Lee died. Busy day at work. Bringing on new people, maybe a research scientist, like I’m a grownup PI. I’ve got nothing that I am comfortable blogging about. Hence, some music:
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Not a metaphor! 🙂 This is what Middle Boy and I (along with some of his friends and their mom) watched today. It was an all-day adventure and great fun!
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12 min to write, 3 to edit, then post: Going with Middle Boy and another family (mom and twins who are MB’s friends) to watch a monster-truck show. I’m so excited! I am trying to embrace all my interests, no matter how lowbrow they seem. In fact, the more lowbrow, the happier they seem to
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