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Since I am no longer a professor in the classroom, this blog is changing focus. (I may at some future date change platforms, too, but not yet). I am now (as of May 2019) playing around with the idea of using this blog as a place to talk about the struggles of writing creatively. Those of you who have been following (or dipping in periodically) know that I've already been doing a little of that, but now the change is official. I don't write every day--yet--so I won't post to the blog every day--yet. But please do check in from time to time, if you're interested in this new phase in my life.


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Thursday, February 8, 2018

Zippy-quick

I want to get to a yoga class tonight, so this is going to be very fast and very short.

Spent a good bit of the day getting caught up on homework for the SF class--but had it done in enough time that I could slam out the letter of support for the person I'm mentoring for promotion. I haven't gone over her file yet--or anyone else's (that will be after I see the last 101 student on Monday), but ... progress is being made.

Until more stuff gets added on to the tail of the list, as usual.

Class was fine. More people contributed, which was great, and some good ideas came up. I'm really loving these guys. But I was very unhappy that two students--including one who was in a 102 with me ages ago--plagiarized their homework. My former student was absent today, too, so that's an unpleasant confrontation still waiting. Ah well. The other student didn't say a word to me; he just left, as usual. And the student who bailed on the class last semester got another warning from me: if he doesn't start doing work that actually can pass, well, he won't.

But the good ones are so good, they kinda make up for the rest.

I must now dash. I may post over the weekend, when I'm grading essays for the 101. Or not. All I can think now is "four more teaching days, and then a break." Man, I need that break. Even if I spend part of it working.

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