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Sydney and I leave early tomorrow morning for Iowa.  We’ll be having breakfast with my parents in Cedar Rapids by 10:00 tomorrow morning.  I’ll be staying for two weeks, to spend time with family and see my friend Heidi safely … Continue reading →

Since I have trouble looking up into the tops of trees to see birds when Sydney and I go out with our binoculars, we recently bought a CD of bird songs so that we could start memorizing the more common … Continue reading →

Two of our Mennonite friends from our days at Yale paid us a most enjoyable visit over the weekend (though they now hail from Cambridge, England and have become three). On Sunday we went for a hike at one of … Continue reading →

Erin and I went walking in Sapsucker Woods a couple of days ago. This is why green is my favourite colour (not that pictures come close to doing it justice): And while we’re at it, I’ll be impressed if somebody … Continue reading →

Now that I’m done with my exams, I’m looking up to realize that much in the world around me has changed.  I’ve certainly done my fair share of New York Times reading recently as I worked on the computer, but … Continue reading →

Not surprising, given that I don’t think any one fails the qualifying exam in my department 🙂  But at least now I’ve officially been given the go-ahead for the dissertation and I have a Master’s Degree in English, for what … Continue reading →

Sydney and I just spent the last three hours at the garden.  To be more precise, we mixed a bread dough, put it in the breadmaker, and headed out to the garden, returning just in time to take it out … Continue reading →

Warning: this post is rather long. But I think it’s rather interesting myself. I think I’ve figured out my academic parentage a good ways back (doing this provided me with some lovely procrastination). There are a couple of links that … Continue reading →

It’s beginning in earnest. In my five semesters of teaching thus far I’ve taught roughly 75 kids of my own, plus shared TA responsibility for roughly 100 more.  Within the past week I’ve seen and talked to something like half-a-dozen … Continue reading →

Yesterday was no fun, since I realized as I was editing that I had written a terrible paper . . . and that I had to hand it in within the hour.  Grr.  Arg.  Plus, I was so anxiety-ridden and … Continue reading →