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How do I torture myself? Let me count the ways. (Apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning) Following a good night’s rest, on the day after the submission of a proposal — which I feverishly tried to polish while racing the clock to the deadline after a night with 2 hours of sleeplike rest in my office chair — I
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Smurf is sitting next to me in the home office. Being 5 and fidgety on a chair with wheels, he keeps wheeling himself to and from the desk. He often finds himself suspended across the wide chasm between the chair, on which he kneels, and the desk onto which he holds. I lose patience and
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7:00 AM Wake up. Bathroom, check email 7:15 AM Wake up the Littles (i.e., the younger two). Give them breakfast, pack lunches for all kids. Eldest does his own morning routine. Drive Eldest to school at 7:50. (Some days he takes my car when he has swim practice right after school; not today.) Back to finish getting everyone
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In a shocking and completely unforeseen turn of events (not), today in a faculty meeting this happened not once but twice: I point out that something is wrong with the motion currently being discussed and I propose a change. The chair shoots it down “because reasons.” Within minutes — nay, seconds! — one of the Important
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Un bon ami du blog, Physicist at Large, just had an essay published by The Chronicle of Higher Education! Congrats! I expect this piece will resonate with many of my readers.
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What have I been up to? This: Also fitting, from Cyanide and Happiness: Wrapping up proposal No 2, which due on Monday of next week, so not much will happen on the blog until then… Although I do have some really stupid punny cartoon ideas… On the upside, I have every intention of doing NaBloPoMo, unofficially, of
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One down, two to go. It’s the middle of the grant-writing season for many of us NSF folks, with a number of divisions having deadlines in late October or very early November. Mercifully, one division went to year-round submission, so the third grant is what I will be working on in November. I am in that unenviable
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Not “a leader”: Firing off multiple emails to colleagues who are at least as busy as you are and asking that they invest a lot of their already heavily obligated time into activities of no value to them professionally and of dubious value to the institution. The proper term is “a deluded email spammer currently in an administrative
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Alas, I speak not of the fun kind, the province of randy college youth… Nay… My tale goes far back, all the way to the last millenium… And it is a dark one. Every year, come October, the pearly gates windows for NSF unsolicited proposals swing open. As if in a trance, thousands of pilgrim scientists gather to worship at
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I drafted this post a while ago, but never published it. Perhaps it’s time, as ASBMB’s publication of “A Good Little Girl” (original post here) reminded me of it. This post will likely go *poof* in a few days. —– We voted for the promotion of a faculty member to full professor. The colleague’s record is quite strong. He commands massive
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