Faculty Retreat 2016
Today was the second day of our faculty retreat. The retreat committee believes we met our goals. Based on feedback from the previous retreat some years ago, we wanted to…[...]
Time
I'm supposed to be thinking about time more. In my previous life on the bench, my daily life was dictated by my timer. Some days were scheduled almost down to…[...]
Headaches
Blistering headache to end the workday. The bitter chill of the bike ride to the train station did it. I was optomistic that the sun and building body heat would…[...]
Summer work
The semester is over and we are officially in intercession. The building has been quiet, but that hasn't stopped the work. I need to turn in the first draft of…[...]
Manuscripts
Today I was talking with a colleague and realized that I have five papers to attempt to write in the coming year. Three in the general field of informatics support…[...]
Damage Control
It has been an exhausting work week. One day has been tumbling into the next with the amount of work to be done exceeding the amount of hours in the…[...]
Neck deep in data
This week, like part of last week, is processing data. I am working on two projects, both spreadsheet heavy. The first is for a paper that involved us going back…[...]
Personal Organization
What it takes to get my job done is a recurrent theme here. We are ending the semester, which marks my time here at a year and a half. This…[...]
Day in review Sept 9, 2015
The workday began well enough. I spent some time fixing my citation managment database for the meta-analysis that I am involved in. I am thrilled to say that the working…[...]
Day in review Friday August 28, 2015
The end of the week. I have two more instruction sessions next week. Today was unexpectedly good. The student were animated and willing to participate. It was more than I…[...]