• Tunez

    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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  • Objects of Beauty

    (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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  • Blacketh

    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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  • Drafts and Guts

    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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  • Blargh

    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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  • Saturday

    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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  • We have had a wave of new hires, so we now have well over a dozen assistant professors. This is great for the department. When I was hired, I was alone. No one for two years ahead of me and for several years after me. There were two people hired at the same time as

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  • Originally posted here. ————– This is a posts that I kept remembering to sit down and write, only to forget yet again. I was reminded of it as I read this post by mathbionerd, to which I arrived somehow by tracking the good news that Dr Becca of Scientopia and Twitter fame had indeed been

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