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There is a colleague, considerably senior to me, with whom I don’t interact much; we are in different fields and have offices on different floors. But I occasionally run into him on my way out of the parking garage, and when I do we always have a brief but pretty cool chat. This last one had to…
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Today has been a very drowsy day. I barely contained yawning in my class and I yawned through the meeting with my students, who found it puzzling and hilarious. Sadly, my tolerance for caffeine is really high. I think actual extra sleep might be in order. I leave you with some pictures of a newly (to me) discovered…
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This week, I have had a bad flare-up of the impostor syndrome, which got me thinking about how we view ourselves and how others view us, and if there is ever a way for the two pictures to coincide. Over my course of my faculty career, I was interviewed a few times for the college or…
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I just discovered another female musician with a great voice, Maia Sharp. Check out her brand new single, “Nothing but the radio on”. I prefer the video with the live version, but the studio recording is also nice. Enjoy!
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Superlative fatigue — a condition that emerges after writing too many letters of recommendation or award nomination within a short period. It stems from the inability of the human brain to use, in earnest, more than a limited number of superlatives per unit time without wanting to vomit and/or use more realistic adjectives. The condition…
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What’s with all these teaching musings, you ask? The university requires annual peer review of teaching for assistant professors, so yesterday I did a review for one of my junior colleagues. I went to one of his lectures (he knew I was coming), took notes, and I will write up a report for his tenure file. When I…
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I don’t think I have always thought this, but I suppose I do now: you can in fact be a good researcher and be an atrocious teacher. And I don’t mean being bad because you don’t prepare or otherwise blow off your duties. You can put in the work, you can care, and you can still…
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I have been going to the same grocery store for the past several years. Their bread is second to none in in a 5+ mile radius. I usually go shopping on Sundays and see the same salespeople every week. I pretty much know most of their names and chat briefly when I run into them. The…
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Clocks go back 1 hour tomorrow, supposedly we can all get 1 more hour of sleep. Yeah, right; tell that to my kids. Clocks, schmocks. I will be blogging daily in November, as I did the last two years, starting new stuff November 2nd, after a grant deadline. A repost tomorrow. The latest repost brought thoughts on work…
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