I found a file of poems I sent to someone once and so I thought I'd paste them in. Enjoy ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went to a meeting of the college senate (that makes me a senator, I think!). It was my first since my boss asked me to be our rep. I may have missed one other as the email for this one just barely caught my attention and then I remembered I was supposed to go! In any case, I'm hoping it will be my only one since the next will be in ( Read more... )

It's been way too long again since I posted, so here's some recent thoughts ( Read more... )

Lucky for me, everybody up my way is out of flu vaccine; I really don't want to start taking that stuff (not a comment either way on other people's choices :-). But here's excellent prevention advice I'm pasting in from some emails I've received from reliable sources recently ( Read more... )

I had fluish symptoms from Tuesday on and so decided to stay home from Wednesday on. The upstairs neighbor (at the apt in Charlottesville) was diagnosed with Swine Flu and when the nurses in the community found out about that last night, they asked me to go get tested as we have quite a number of vulnerable individuals in the community (people ( Read more... )

Listening to my wise nieces, (esp. L no A) I followed up on the job quest by calling the head of HR at the not so local college. I'd connected with him on a previous application--for a position that they decided not to have after all. After a few minutes, he remembered me and told me that they will be advertising for the position in the next ( Read more... )

The job I have been coveting for several years--running the local version of the slightly less local community college is just about to come open. For years I have wished the director would be offered his dream job and move on to bigger and better things. A month ago I found out he had cancer. Today I found out he died last week. This just feels ( Read more... )

I've been working with Rita Smilkstein on the application of how learning happens (i.e. the natural process of learning based on how the brain works [I started to say, "how the brain operates" but the close proximity of 'brain' and 'operates' gave me the willies!]) to academic learning, specifically in our current school systems. Part of what we ( Read more... )

One of my goals is to not take things personally. I've worked hard on this and I think today I've lost some ground. Stymied is not one of the mood tags but if it were, I'd be using it today ( Read more... )

The fox I wrote about in a poem in a recent entry, showed up on my street (about a mile from the location of the initial sighting.) She was trotting down the street with a large mouse, huge mole, or some other small animal in her mouth. I turned out of the driveway and drove slowly in her direction. A car came toward us and she detoured into a ( Read more... )