Category: Personal Journal

So reports of Stanley’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. I was ready to believe he was dead. He seemed to get very sick very quickly last week. My boss reported that he was dead when she checked him yesterday. Today,…

Stanley 2003-2005 RIP Dear Stanley, known affectionally as “Swimmy” to family members, passed into that good night over the weekend, leaving behind his sad SpongeBob and Patrick tank friends. In lieu of flowers, please hug and kiss and love your…

because i have been decorating the window at work, along with help from my MarcoPolo friends Lisa and Sharon, i’ve been exploring all the parameters of Duck’s campaign for president. as a public service to our coworkers, we’ve been posting…

i feel exceptionally writing challenged today. i can’t seem to think of a single, original idea. I can type notes, but that’s about it. course, that’s just copying. anyone could copy.

ok. so that was a waste. all i can write is crap: Writing assignments that work is the key to success in any class. Students can survive a lot of missteps, but if the assignments that we send students off…

so here i spent all this time trying to figure out how to do index cards online. looking for special software, avery labels, something. anything. in desperation last week, as i was packing for my yearly trip to houghton, i…

I think that I used notecards for my papers and whatnot as a student as a physical arrangement tool more than anything else. Especially for larger documents like my master’s thesis, I was able to write out quotations and such…

so here i am going through various piles of papers and file folders that have piled up over the last several weeks, and I find a folder from cccc 1999. i knew that it had my presentation in it, and…