(And now I wonder about the origin of “hang” in this context.) I am teaching for 1:15 this afternoon, and then for 2:30 this evening. […]
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Bits and bobs.
So, that wee tiny little nest someone started to put together right before the cold snap, as mentioned in my previous post? They evidently thought […]
Cold to colder.
As my cold eases up, the temperature drops again outside. More snow, more cold, temps below zero on Sunday. Again. I worry. I have an […]
This cold has hit the Endless Coughing stage.
Dear everyone else at the library, I am SO SORRY. My colds have a sort of classical elegance to them. Not the part where my […]
Five things still equal a post.
…just as they did in LiveJournal, back in the late Cretaceous. I have a cold or minor flu that is leaving me easily tired, and […]
The magic of headcolds.
I managed to travel all fall without catching a cold, and then this bitter, deep winter weather, and five weeks of school — and yet […]
That damn jay. Also, Fridays.
There’s one particular jay in my back yard that pretended to be a hawk for over an hour this morning, practicing his hawk-scream until it […]
Snow, again and always.
Yesterday is my 12-14 hour day: I have to get in and prep for the 2:30 undergraduate class, and then, in the three hours before […]
Tuesdays are the harriedest.
Tuesdays include two classes, one of them three hours long, plus departmental meetings periodically, plus (as today) meeting with grad students about their dissertations and […]
Snowy days of yore.
This picture is from my Japan trip in February and March of 2004. I was there for three weeks or so, and every place I […]