Less than two weeks left!
Next week is our last week of classes at Small College Town U, which puts finals week uncomfortably close to Christmas. My last exam is Friday of that week (the 17th!) and grades are due the 21st. Ick....
View ArticleIt's been five years...
...since I started this blog! I love to think how many people I know (mostly still in a virtual sense) that I wouldn't if it weren't for blogging. I also love having this place to share my day-to-day...
View ArticleBecause I can't bitch about this on FB...
Ugh! My relatives continue to hurt my feelings from afar. You may recall this incident from over the summer. Well, visiting my brother was fine and I always feel close to them when we visit (which is...
View ArticleAnd now for something completely different...
A blog post! I can't believe it's been almost two months since I posted here. Although, I can because this semester is a killer. I am just counting down the days until Spring Break so that I can have a...
View ArticleOff on an adventure
Today, D and I are off to Very Distant Country to meet up with H, who has been there doing research since June 3rd. This is our first trip and we're very excited about it. It will take two 8-hour plane...
View ArticleWe're back!
We've been home for about two weeks from our amazing trip to Very Distant Country and as usual, I'm having trouble getting myself back to work. I have managed to get a little syllabus revision done,...
View ArticlePoor lonely blog & family drama
Despite my neglect of this blog, I have no plans to shut it down. Just think of it as a special treat when I actually manage to blog over here! Sigh.I've been having a crazy semester, as usually...
View ArticleTime for a change
I have been neglecting this blog like never before and I miss it. I decided to update the theme to one of the newer blogger themes, but also think I'd like to change the name soon. I started blogging...
View ArticleFeeling out of whack
We have had a very strange winter around here- no measurable snowfall yet and much of December was in the 40s and 50s. I don't love the frigid weather- or shoveling snow- but it makes me confused about...
View ArticleMonday evening RBOC
Yay! Random bullets!!I really need to write this abstract (due tomorrow!) for a regional conference that will be just-up-the-road in late April, but I can't seem to get my act together. I was at work...
View ArticleFailure
I was at a PhD oral exam this morning and the student failed. For the second time. It's not clear what happens now, but s/he will not be getting a PhD in that program. I have not served on many PhD...
View ArticleWarning: Bitching Ahead...
I have some actual topics I want to blog about but this post will probably just be a rant- about a couple of things. First, some people at work are really driving me crazy. We have recently made some...
View ArticleGoodbye, Green Eyes (1993-2012)
In her favorite place. The day I've dreaded for years arrived on Valentine's Day. We said goodbye to our sweet lap cat (let's call her Green Eyes), who's been with me since I was 23 and in my second...
View ArticleMigraines again
Given all the recent migraines, I've started posting over at Migraine Detective again. I don't know if it will help, but it has been interesting to read my old posts and see if there are any...
View ArticleNaBloPoMo 2012!
It's November 1st, so what better time for me to get back to this blog? It makes me sad that I've given up blogging. It's been taken over by FB for the most part, but lately I've been using Twitter...
View ArticlePlanet Earth
NaBloPoMo Prompt from Thursday, November 1, 2012 Tell us your favourite quotation and why. “We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil;...
View ArticleAlready behind!
It's fitting that I missed yesterday since I feel so scattered and behind in real life right now. It's gotten to a busy time of the semester (only five more weeks!) and I have taken over the class I'm...
View ArticleMentoring
I've never really had much formal mentoring and H and I have often leaned on each other for support with professional activities and research since we're in the same field and have similar research...
View ArticleBlogging FAIL.
Well, this has not gone as I'd hoped! I'm already missing days, so maybe a more realistic goal is to blog at least 2/3 of the days this month (or post at least 20 times?). I am really swamped with...
View ArticleI got nothin'
Manuscript reviews, thesis defense(s), grading, teaching, service, meetings, & my addiction to political news means I have nothing much to say this morning. Defense #1 is this morning, then I'll...
View ArticleHow life is pretty sucky at the moment
Hey, remember me? Well, I think I know a lot of you on Twitter and Facebook these days, so it's not like I've really been out of touch, right? Well, my semester leave is officially over, but of course...
View ArticleStudent Death
It's been a sad week here in Small College Town. One of our students was killed last weekend. She was one of the best students I've had and just a genuinely nice person. I've been trying to figure...
View ArticleCatching Up
As you know, I haven't been keeping up with the blog. I haven't been reading blogs either- mostly because I'm not reading content through the blog reading apps these days. I'm more likely to read...
View ArticleRambling post, aka 2015 has been a year of struggles
H left for Very Distant Country today, so he's gone for the next four weeks and I'm feeling reflective? Melancholy? I don't know, but I felt like writing something over here. Even if you know me on...
View ArticleMoving!
Well, I started a new continuation of this neglected space over on tumblr. Stop by and check it out! Here's the about page. I don't plan to remove this blog- I like having the archive over here. Let me...
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