Monthly Archives: March 2008

Tonight, on my way back from a dinner downtown, I found myself in a line of cars at a police checkpoint.  As the nice young policeman explained to me, they were checking for DUIs and DWIs.  Ten feet past the … Continue reading →

Sydney’s now been home for two whole days.  I knew he was coming with lots of baggage, but I didn’t realize he would come home with a nasty cold.  So he’s spent the last couple of days coughing, sniffling, lying … Continue reading →

His beard and hair are scruffy and he’s smelly and hoarse.  But I’ll take him. 🙂

There are some good things to note first: Sydney let me know he thinks he’s coming today.  As I write, he should be somewhere over the Atlantic, relaxing a bit after a stressful couple of days.  We’ll just hope he … Continue reading →

So I’m stuck in a hotel in London, listening to storm outside. Right, exactly. After two months of pretty much nothing but sunny, balmy days, a big storm rolls in just as I want to leave the country. Sometimes getting … Continue reading →

–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 →