… it’s vacation time! Have a great August, everyone! I sure have been so far….
But first, happy birthdays, Ken and Heather! And happy early birthday, Sarah L. G.! It’s distant enough in time and space from my last TA-ship that I feel like these tips I post can be received as intended: as general guidelines learned through many TA-ships and course-marker-, uh, isms rather…
No post this week — some family stuff going on. Have a good one, and see you all next Sunday.
Around this time last year, I made a list of 10 things I’d learned during 2009, and, at the end, I appended a list of 10 things I hoped to learn during 2010. Well, 2010’s been and gone, which means it’s time to see how I did. As a wise…
I think it’s long enough past the actual university school year that I can post something like this. Now, I’ve been marking essays for just three years, but I’ve been writing them for a lot longer, and, thing is, it wasn’t until I started marking papers that I really understood…
Hey all, As you may have gathered from the title, I’m not posting a blog entry today. On Friday evening, my aunt passed away after a long battle with cancer. I will be spending my time this week with my family in Ottawa, where shiva will take place at my…
Happy New Year, everyone! No matter what your religion, ethnicity, or creed, I think we can all agree that, according to the Gregorian calendar used by the majority of the world, the arbitrary time at which one year segues into another is rapidly approaching. So enjoy it! Because this is…
Hello, Internet. It’s me again. I know I had a propensity for leading you on in the past, but this time it’s different. This will be my professional website, see? There are excerpts of my manuscripts, and pictures, and I even got my own domain name, all for you. I…