I’m fried. That’s the sad truth of it. Teaching an overload, ramping up duties for this and that, working night and day on the Owain Glyndwr project … I can honestly say I’m not firing on all cylinders. I like to think that other folks — my students especially — …
If there’s one thing I rant and rave about in class, it is this: Think Critically. I’m always after this elusive beast. I prod and provoke, invect and invoke, all in the name of getting my students to stop wearing the blinders of ideology … to stop starting with conclusions …
Crazy times this semester. As a result of the unexpected unavailability of a faculty member, we had four full classes to staff less than 48 hours before classes began. I ended up with one of them, so I’m teaching an overload this term. Not really a big deal, I suppose, …
I’m always a little apprehensive to read the student evaluations for my courses. I think I’ve mentioned this before (here, here, and here, for instance). There’s this part of me, I suppose, that fears for the worst every time. Last Friday was the day I finally had a chance to …
Four times in the past four days someone has contacted me about publishing some academic idea or theory or bit of information that he has. In three of the four cases, the individual was planning to (or already had) “published” said work online — uploading it to a website of …