As seen over at What a recently tenured college professor shouldn't be doing... (which has one of the best urls ever...check it out!)
Addy did this with the year 2006, but since UR didn't exist then, I'm going to use this year. I think it's pretty neat!
Rules: take first sentence of first post of each month.
January 2008: People find my site through a wide range of google terms (some on google and some on google blogsearch). (The month I tried to find any activity that would distract me from looming job interviews.)
February 2008: Yeah, that's me. (Hmmm...this could be referring to so many things.)
March 2008: I absolutely do not believe in love at first sight. (At this point, N.A. and I were already in love. I never would have thought I'd find someone like him, if you had asked me this time last year.)
April 2008: Well, N.A. and I made it through our first trip. (And we're still going strong!)
May 2008: In my department there is an unwritten code of conduct among graduate students. (I'm much happier now that I'm in a relatively politics-free department. Switching to a new school in the fall-- I hope!-- is going to be a big adjustment.)
June 2008: Yesterday, at a thesis defense, I had difficulty seeing the whole screen. (Oh.....how many strange faculty members there are at LargeU. Now I'm in a department with colleagues that are (mostly) quirk free.)
July 2008: Now you know I'm not one to criticize others' child-rearing skills (ha, ha), but I feel like the following warrants (at least a little) judgement: (Worst places to encounter ill-behaved rugrats: planes, trains, and churches.)
August 2008: ...well, at least for this moment. (Hmmm...)
September 2008: I hate hate hated group work when I was a student. (And I still do, although I use it in almost every lecture.)
October 2008: Last week, I gave my students their first exam. (They liked that one. Not so much on the later exams.)
November 2008: I've been gone all week at my first conference as a (semi) Real Professor. (I'm completely comfortable with the Dr title now. I still bristle whenever someone calls me "Mrs" or "Ms." I'm not sure that will go away, at least when I'm in the classroom.)
December 2008: Driving a huge, gas-guzzling SUV with expensive, tricked out snow tires is super safe. (I. Hate. SUVs in the winder.)
Hope you are all having a wonderful, alcohol-drenched start to 2009!
