Monthly Archives: May 2007

Sydney has been getting all kinds of interesting email from students.  Though I am sure some are wonderful, organized, dutiful students, others are now desperately trying to figure out whether they will pass the course, and how much effort they … Continue reading →

By five-thirty this morning Sydney and I were out the door, so that we could stand in line until 8:00, when the biannual Tompkins County Public Library book sale opened.  This is one of the largest book sales in the … Continue reading →

it wouldn’t seem so much like farming if Sydney and I weren’t out in the middle of a big ploughed field, all by ourselves, digging in dirt. But today was fun 🙂 Erin

… but there are now six varieties of potatoes in the ground. Sydney

Early this morning Erin discovered a male Rose-breasted Grosbeak at our feeder (males are really beautiful — the females exemplify drabness). He’s been there most of the time since. Here’s a pilfered photo:

I’ve been feeling rather desperate the last few days, trying to quickly write a paper on a difficult, technical subject about which I know very little (on a priority, for those of you to whom that means anything). I handed … Continue reading →

This may only be funny to one who has spent more than two months of the past year helping students work through the novel Persuasion, but I thought I would throw it out there, anyway. Many of my students cited … Continue reading →

I’m still feeling the effects of busy-semester stress, and grading my students’ final papers was almost more than I could bear yesterday.  But! the semester is now at an end, as is my role as a student taking classes.  All … Continue reading →

I’ve been eating continuously for the last couple of weeks, and my appetite hasn’t helped me stay away from the end-of-the-year goodies that are all over the place.  No, before you jump to conclusions, I’m not eating for two.  But … Continue reading →