The daughter of one of the Business school faculty members wants to work with me!! Yeah!

But a funny story: her father just emailed me, and the email shocked me a little. He wrote:

Thanks once again, for being willing to work with my daughter. She seems ( Read more... )

I just sent the first draft of my customized lab manual for Genetics to the publisher... Probably some errors in the submission, but I'll take care of them next week ( Read more... )

I've been waiting for this report for two years!!!!

( From the NYTimes: Tests Confirm Second Mad Cow Case in U.S. )

Elynn and I have picked a date for our anniversary - for the past 13 years, we celebrate the weekend we met. That's this weekend. This will be our 14th anniversary ( Read more... )

Woe to the computer support people!

A virus got inside our firewall: details are hereMany of the faculty/staff opened the email: they've been cowed into submission by the IT troopers (headed by an ex-Marine), and the email was apparently from administrator@MyUniversity. Almost immediately, Symantec and other antivirus manufacturers released a ( Read more... )

They had a raffle at the Faculty Institute; it's a program where they give us ideas to help us be better professors/teachers. At the raffle, I won a Dell Pocket DJI should be excited, but what in the world will I do with this thing? I never listen to music on headphones, because I like to be aware of the world around me. I'm thinking of not giving ( Read more... )

I just finished the last set of grading I have this semester, and gave the last students their grades ( Read more... )

I'm in a pie-making mood. Two apple pies (one pie is Cortland, and one is Stayman Winesap/Cortland), and one strawberry-rhubarb ( Read more... )

The adjunct professor who teaches the other section of Genetics lab just asked me for additional copies of a large, 40-page handout that we xeroxed for the students. As I handed him the stack, he asked "Is that it?" and mentioned that only one person had brought theirs in, and they all needed copies ( Read more... )

They closed the University.. too many commuter students. I mentioned to the class that I used to walk to classes during hail storms - my college never closed (except for hurricanes). I feel like an old fogey, relaying these stories ( Read more... )