In today’s work email I found not one, but two, requests for overrides into my upper-division class next spring. These were the eleventh and twelfth such requests I’ve received in the past… more →
Lucky JaneLucky Jane wrote 4 days ago: In today’s work email I found not one, but two, requests for overrides into my upper-division … more →
Lucky Jane wrote 2 weeks ago: It must be the weather, or maybe the threat of swine flu, but, between screaming at slow-moving stra … more →
Lucky Jane wrote 3 weeks ago: This is not a political post. But if you live where an election is going on, then go get your vote o … more →
Lucky Jane wrote 1 month ago: Between job searches and graduate school admissions of all flavors, many faculty members’ offi … more →
Lucky Jane wrote 2 months ago: Like some middle-aged dude with fading tattoos on my sagging, dough-like nether regions, I’ve … more →
Lucky Jane wrote 2 months ago: It’s always better on holiday, so much better on holiday, even if you spent it working and lis … more →
Lucky Jane wrote 4 months ago: On my way to the office this morning (cos I’m trying to avoid getting sucked into and enraged … more →
Lucky Jane wrote 5 months ago: Once upon a time, I was just beginning my teaching adventures. The course, of course, was compositio … more →
Lucky Jane wrote 7 months ago: Don’t b.s. your way through your annotated bibliography, and don’t annotate a source unl … more →
Lucky Jane wrote 8 months ago: I have to teach in fifteen minutes. My students have wonderful things to say about the novel we are … more →
Lucky Jane wrote 9 months ago: I’m too old for this. I received a set of papers from my morning class on Friday afternoon and … more →
Lucky Jane wrote 10 months ago: Yesterday wasn’t a teaching day, but I did have to go to campus for a morning meeting. As usua … more →
Lucky Jane wrote 10 months ago: As former readers of the Huffington Post know too well, the recent candidate for Vice President won … more →
Lucky Jane wrote 10 months ago: I am a bad influence, and not because I lie to my students about how excited I am to see them. The m … more →
Lucky Jane wrote 10 months ago: It’s morning again in Funky City, and I’m not extremely happy about it. Sure, every morn … more →
Lucky Jane wrote 1 year ago: Well, I’ve let my little blog go out to pasture, and I haven’t done so because I’v … more →
Lucky Jane wrote 1 year ago: Befitting my moniker, I had the tremendous luck of drawing the first final exam time of Spring … more →
Lucky Jane wrote 1 year ago: Oh yeah. In a fifteen-hour sitting, I have graded 38 papers. Each was 2000 words long (though a few … more →
Lucky Jane wrote 1 year ago: That’s what my last class of Spring ‘08 gave me this afternoon, at the end of another qu … more →