I have become a delinquent blogger. That means it is time for me to say farewell. Yes, it is time. It’s a lot to say goodbye to, there are m...

You may have noticed that I haven’t been blog-reading or blog-writing much lately. That’s because I’ve been focusing my efforts on blog-rith...

I have to remind myself why I ever wanted this job. I periodically need to think about that. I can always come up with a few reasons, but my...

When I was young, and I mean young in terms of my academic career- so young that I had just realized what my college major should be, I had ...

This transition from sabbatical life to real life is not so easy. I am suddenly busy, very busy, painful please get out of my office I cann...

Wow. This is big. This changes everything . Here I am blogging away, ice cubes clincking in the scotch glass, lounging in my casual tweeds, ...

I’ll try to keep this short…but, damn. I forgot how much shit there is to do on a daily basis when, like a normal non-sabbatical person, you...

I get it. I really do. For the sake of consistency and the prevention of future headaches we are all required to insert some very specific s...

The city is distributing new trash cans. I got mine today… For what percent of households is the first thing they put in their new trash can...

Why is this so difficult? At times like this I am embarrassed to be an academic. Here we all are, again . We do this every year. We just ne...