I was supposed to spend this weekend in Vegas with Brian and Anthony and Ian (friends who also live in Ann Arbor), Jess (who currently lives in Denver), and Jerry (who currently lives in Chinle, Arizona). Jess and Jerry both moved away in the last year, and we miss them. Also, as I think Brian described it best: "[Jerry] runs around like one of ( Read more... )

In a spectacular fit of paranoia related to the already-daunting project of cultivating credibility and authority in a classroom full of students who have enough reasons to be suspicious without access to documentation, I've decided to make this near-daily log of delights, frustrations, and banal observations A Secret Journal.  If the removal of my ( Read more... )