Do you bring happiness to work?

Campbell's has a commercial that tells you to "bring some happiness to work."


I don't know about you guys, but we're barely a month into the new semester yet I'm already exhausted.

May seems a long, loooooong way off.  (Because it *is*, I suppose.)


How do you suggest I bring a little bit o' happiness to work?

Students are out to get us!

...or at least that is how it feels sometimes.

Faced with a classroom full students armed with bored faces, armed with texting weapons, teaching can sometimes take an "us versus them" tone.


But just like professors aren't plotting against students, our classes don't meet in the dark of night to plan against us.


The Forbes article is an interesting read.  I wonder what the student version would include?

What has your degree done for you lately?

Winter break is for watching instant netflix.  Lately, NA and I have been watching a lot of old Bones episodes (a show about a forensic anthropologist).

In one show, an FBI asks Tempe, "What, are you really going to be a bone lady all of your life?"

She responded, "I studied anthropology for years!"

"I got a degree, too, but I'm not going to let it ruin my life."




Whether you are a work-in-progress or out of grad school for decades, how is your degree treating you these days?