I was up and out the door early this morning. I walked to my polling place, for a good 25 minutes of exercise before hand, and again after ( Read more... )

So yesterday was weigh-in. Based on my morning check on my home scale, I was up a pound complements of all the food, wine and beer consumed while in NYC ( Read more... )

So I spent a large part of my weekend working on a film analysis which is due in class this evening. The written analysis part wasn't the problem, it was the presentation with film clips that sucked in my time ( Read more... )

Just saw the following post in my daily professional spam from the American Society for Engineering Education. They picked it up from the NYT.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute builds new high-tech facility.The New York Times (9/23, F2, Overbye) reported, "On a hillside overlooking this college town on the banks of the Hudson, the Rensselaer ( Read more... )

Sleepy. Not falling asleep until sometime after 1 am can do that to a person. Still not sure what allowed by body or brain to finally shut down and let me sleep, but there it is. I'm dragging and it's one of those days where I was out of the house by 7:30 and I won't be back until 10 pm ( Read more... )

This is literally right after arriving home. The amount of cogitating I've done around the talk I just heard has amounted to about 15 minutes of walking around campus and about 10 minutes in the car getting home, so I expect this will be rough ( Read more... )

So tonight Thomas L Friedman will be speaking on campus and I have a ticket to go hear him ( Read more... )

I was up early this morning and decided to forgo the walk in the dark to get to the office early (7:30), since I figured I was leaving at 3 for a voice lesson. Got here to find a message from my voice coach that today isn't good, so I get to join my colleagues in our research time (so I can really look at those revision notes from psychowoofIt's already ( Read more... )

Today's weigh in results: -3.6 lbs.

Total lost for 3 weeks: 11.2 lbs.

I just finished teaching to my fellow graduate students in Engineering Education. My first experience in this setting of getting up in front of my colleagues and teaching stuff I teach all the time ( Read more... )