lessons in temporality

I had a student who emailed all exasperated and annoyed about going to her section of my class at 4:00 today only to find the room empty. I explained that there is not a 4:00 section today or any day. Oh, bless their little hearts.

OMG moment!

I don't want this space to be about bitching, but I just received an email form a student asking for a reminder of the room location for the class he is enrolled in. Perhaps I should offer to swing by later and pick him up for class?

reduce, reuse, recycle

Earlier this week was the four year anniversary of this blog. For that entire period, the blog was mainly pseudonymous [Dr. M, dr. m(mmmmm), m(mmm), among other variations]. I've been an infrequent poster for quite some time. I thought about bringing it to a close, but I like the title and several of my posts. I have decided to become less anonymous and to focus this blog on academic-type musing, minus the whining and angst provided by anonymity. For photos and more whimsical things, I will use the space of my 2008 daily photo project, opportunistic body language. I decided to keep the posts from my first month (January 2005) and several other posts, many with photos, from the past four years. I think I sent about 450 posts to the ether.