Procrastadabbler

Last night I watched the movie “Waitress.” It’s a sweet movie. I wouldn’t call it great, but it was definitely enjoyable to watch. Very much in the mode of “Like Water for Chocolate” “Chocolat” and “Babette’s Feast” where food represents the passions and dreams of the female creator. Anyway, throughout the movie, Jenna, the main [...]

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A colleague of mine is recovering from cancer, and the other night she put things into perspective for me. She said she doesn’t worry about tenure because statistically, she only has five years left. Now, I don’t like thinking that in a few years this beautiful woman might not be here, but she has a [...]

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The semester is over. It was a really hard one. Not because of my students. They were great. It was hard because of my work load. What was I thinking trying to teach three classes, collect data from two field sites, write (didn’t happen), serve on committees, do community service (once a week plus being [...]

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I should be reading a student’s master’s essay, but instead I got distracted by figuring out a PowerPoint problem, which led me to this blog — Song a Day. The blog owner is putting up a song a day of Christmas songs outside of the same old same old. Totally fun. My favorite is [...]

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Quite a while ago I decided I wanted to new living room carpet. I did some extra work over the summer to earn the money, and after the cat moved out, I ordered the carpet. It’s wall to wall, so of course I had to empty the two rooms (living room and den) of all [...]

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