( Read more... )

Early today, or should I say yesterday, I went to get the results of the first of my two annual medical work-ups. I was expecting bad news, since early this year I've had to separate hypertensive episodes, one being serious enough to necessitate my transport to the Heart Center via an ambulance (I can assure you that this episode will make its way ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I submitted the grades for the last batch of students, the delinquents, in my summer classes, and with that I concluded my first year of teaching. I half-expected someone to come up to me, shake my hand, maybe congratulate me on a job well done and hand me a box of expensive cigars and a snifter of fine brandy. But I was alone in my ( Read more... )

It's summer here now and it's been months since I last updated this blog. Of course, you can't tell it by looking at it. For all intents and purposes, this is my first post here, when it's actually the 34th. Like some small, strange foraging forest animal, I store away old posts in the nooks and crannies of the interwebs, where only I can find them ( Read more... )