Faculty Meeting Rule #2

If you insist on knitting during faculty meeting, then understand that a (significant, depending on institution) portion of the rest of the faculty is silently judging you (and, depending on institution, likely the rest of the female faculty).

Those "knitting circle" comments?  Not intended to be a compliment.

Measuring the semester

This morning, I was wondering where the semester had gone.  What have I been doing with my time?

As I pondered the passing days, I glanced down at my hands.  The sides of my fingers and my forearm are stained red.

Oh, that's right, I remembered.  I've been spending the semester GRADING.




Yes, my lovelies, I've been in grading hell.  You can measure my semester by the spent red pens in the wastebasket.


By what do you measure YOUR semester?  Empty pipet boxes?  Drained ink cartridges?

Faculty Meeting Rule #1

No matter how many times a senior faculty member insist that it is okay, if you are junior faculty do NOT voice your opinion at faculty meeting.

Oh, for the love of punctuation

I have noticed "recently" that I have begun using the dreaded "extraneous" quotation marks.


And I "supposedly" know my grammar, like, really gooder than most "people."





Are quotation marks a sign that I am starting to lose it??!

Choose your own adventure

Have you ever woken up from recalling a vivid dream and then had it stick with you ALL. DAY. LONG?

Have you ever had a dream that flipped back and forth from first to third person, so much so, that ALL. DAY. LONG. you second-guess if the event really happened? (although, deep down, you absolutely know that it didn't).

Have you ever had a dream that played out the Other Possibility?  The what-might-have-happened-if.... option?

Have you every had that dream reoccur three times in 10 days?




Yeah, I totally haven't, either.




Sweet dreams, friends.