I feel weaksauce this morning. I'm skipping my morning swim. And I think I shall get a bubble tea on my way to class later this morning.

The fog this morning was kinda cool, but it lifted and left a rather dreary and overcast day. I bought a new stainless (natch) steel travel mug to replace the one I lost last week and was dismayed to notice that the inside of the mug is not supposed to be brown as the last one had turned. I need to do laundry and iron some clothes today. Oh, the ( Read more... )

Also, there's something in the water this semester. I only received 11 out of 18 papers for this class.... It happened with the other classes a week ago, too!

We have this "atomic clock" that is supposed to tap into a radio signal that broadcasts the time, allowing it to re-set itself during time changes and also to keep itself accurate. However, our apartment, as filled with windows as it is, seems to be a bunker as far as the clock is concerned, and it doesn't really seem able to pick up the radio ( Read more... )

I got back in the pool again this morning for the first time in about four months. It was nice to get a little panty. I didn't do much, though, in part because the elastic strap on the googles goggles I left in the locker was so dried out that it broke when I tried to stretch it so I couldn't really open my eyes while swimming. I liked the feeling ( Read more... )

It's weird to realize that my parents are going through their days surrounded by Chinese language (again), and they likely don't encounter English very much anymore. I can't imagine at this point in my life moving to another country and existing in another language (which is sort of what my parents did when they were my age)...

1) A couple times this past week, I've run into a student I had last semester while getting coffee between classes. She works at the campus eatery, and when I go up to the counter, her face totally lights up, and she says, "Hi professor!" When I leave the counter, she turns to her co-workers or to friends hanging around and says, "That was my ( Read more... )

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies....

Oh, how the postal service fails me! I dropped off applications on Friday for a couple of postdocs that were postmark-due on the 30th. I got back home today to find the envelopes at my doorstep. Apparently the postage rate for priority mail has gone up since the fall when I bought stamps for the flat-rate envelopes. Sigh. I guess I just have to ( Read more... )

A student evaluation comment:

He seemed really stressed out a lot of the time.

Another one:

He is too diligent.

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I don't hide my stressiness as much as I thought. Also, I'm a model minority!