So I’ve finally gotten around to updating the page. Well, adding a post, at any rate. The page itself probably won’t get updated for a while though I’ve got a new layout and design already floating around my brain. But I digress, as usual. The point of this post is to catch up on the past month or so through random bits of whatever I remember at the moment. So here it goes: Continue reading
Madness!
Well, it’s that time of year again when shopping and wrapping and packing and cleaning are at an all-time, going-insane high. The husband and I are going to buy a few more gifts today–probably books–which I will then wrap upon coming home and then put under our tree. It has a respectable pile of goodies under it right now, I think. Admittedly, none of them are for us, but Continue reading
Jingle bells
I’ve got jingle bells stuck in my head, as usual. It’s the default song that pops in my brain when there isn’t anything else in there to sing. Currently, I have a student in my office taking his final exam. He showed up in the last twenty minutes of the test thinking the test was at noon rather than ten, and I figured that since I haven’t much else to do, I’d just let him take it in my office while I Continue reading
Sweet!
Today’s the last day of finals. I give my last exam at 10, so in about an hour from now. Then it’s grade, grade, grade, grade, grade until I have to turn grades in next Tuesday. I figure I can grade exams for the three previous classes today while my last class is taking their exam, or else I’ll crochet. I’ve just discovered the fun of crocheting with a teeny tiny hook and thread. Also along Continue reading
Last day of classes for the semester
Well, I just got out of my last class of the day, and today was the last day of classes for the semester. Now I’ve just got three days of finals next week and I’m done. Well, saying I’ve just got three days of finals is putting it rather mildly since I’ve still got stuff to grade; e-mails to reply to; a final to write; a study guide to write (I put these on-line so it’s OK that I’m not going to see them Continue reading
Five to one
It is now five to one in the morning. The title is neither a ratio nor gambling odds for those of you predisposed to think in such terms. I’ve decided to take a short break from grading in order to take a shower and give my brain a rest, so I decided to scribble out a post in the meantime. Random tidbits: our refrigerator has effectively frozen everything inside it including a jar of pickles Continue reading
Again, no time
No time for a TKT today. I figure that next week I should be able to get one up because I’ll have office hours but no lesson plans to mess with and just two classes’ worth of finals to grade that day. This week though is far too busy. I’ve got four stacks of papers to grade through before tomorrow; I’ve got departmental stuff I need to get done by tomorrow; I have a final to write for Continue reading
Too busy!!
Damn, life sure has been hectic lately. Ever since Thanksgiving, it seems that everything is just snowballing forward and I’m getting caught up more and more. So let’s see, I wonder if I can even remember half the random stuff that’s been going on lately so I can so much as post about it! We’ll try. Maybe if I organize it by subject it’ll go more smoothly… Continue reading
Drippy day
No, no TKT today. Not after grading several dozen papers and essays and then cleaning out about a hundred student e-mails, half of which were to tell me they weren’t in class because they’d overslept or mis-set their alarm clocks though I instructed them at the beginning of the year to not bother with e-mails like that, but they’re students, so what can you say? Woo, that was a long Continue reading
Dressing
Well, I’m making a vague attempt at making Thanksgiving dressing to take to the in-laws’ for Thanksgiving tomorrow. I remember making this stuff before with Grandma Nolan years and years ago, but it’s not like I remember the measurements or cooking temperature or even necessarily all of the ingredients. So I called Mom who said Aunt Kathleen has the recipe, but Continue reading