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–not that I’m counting 🙂 If all goes well (and good weather is expected both here and in Detroit), Sydney will be home by 11:30 tomorrow night.  I thought I was playing it pretty cool these last few days, but … Continue reading →

Ithaca’s been having one heck of an ice storm. It blew in on Friday and then kept everybody close to home on Saturday. Of course, I decided the weather necessitated a nice, long walk on Saturday morning–and it felt great! … Continue reading →

I came across some ranting today about how Americans are so embarrassingly stupid compared to the rest of the world. I hear this sort of stuff all the time, whenever I’m outside of the U.S. Actually, not just outside the … Continue reading →

Today I had the second occasion in recent weeks to step across a stream of urine running over a sidewalk, thanks to somebody thinking that a busy sidewalk was a good place to urinate. Today it was a sidewalk along … Continue reading →

Today I led a hearing for a student who plagiarized her work for my class.  I realized only later that I must have somehow seen the student’s actions as a threat to my person, as well as my work; when … Continue reading →

If you’re from a Russian Mennonite background, this should have you rolling on the floor. If you’re Swiss Mennonite, you’ll likely still find it funny. If neither, well, I have no idea. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SggmDSJSYs] Sydney

After a six-week slog through unhappiness, illness, and a whole lot of work, several wonderful events in my life: – By this point, I have my head back on straight enough to realize that I have had a lot of … Continue reading →

Too bad that this isn’t the door I get to use to go into the Bodleian:

On my oh-so-lengthy to-do list for February, I had “Do taxes.”  Ha!  I hardly even looked at them before the month ended.  But I settled in early this morning, started with Line 1, and finished state and federal off by … Continue reading →

Earlier this week I decided I needed a break from the libraries, so I walked around in Oxford’s botanic garden. Naturally, there would be more to see there later in the year, but there were some interesting things now as … Continue reading →