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- If a meeting has a specified end time, leave at that time, even if the meeting isn't over.
- If a meeting does not have a specified end time, call the meeting convener and ask when the meeting will end. Leave at the specified end time.
- Bring something to work on in case the meeting starts late.
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June 2007
blogging milestone
Saturday, 30 June 2007 4:33 A GMT-07
I blogged everyday in June. Now I can leave for my road trip.
road trip food
Friday, 29 June 2007 7:18 P GMT-07
We leave for a two-day road trip to Illinois tomorrow. Lily has a brand new cousin who was born there on June 27. I love road trips and usually spend at least half a day planning, shopping for, and making fabulous food for the trip. I’m a big b
Category: personal
more on decorating cakes
Thursday, 28 June 2007 4:04 P GMT-07
I’m so glad I took that cake decorating class. Roses and ruffles aren’t really my style, but being able to make them with frosting is a pretty cool thing. I’ll be taking the level 2 course in August and should learn how to make many
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textbook proposal almost done
Tuesday, 26 June 2007 8:21 A GMT-07
Here's the tag crowd for the textbook proposal Amy and I are working on: <!-- begin tag cloud : generated by TagCrowd.com Feel free to modify as long as you keep this notice. This code and its rendered image are released under a Creative
Category: pedagogy & teaching
It's Official: I'm a Freak (you might have noticed)
Monday, 25 June 2007 8:22 A GMT-07
As seen at New Kid, who always finds the best online quizzes. <!--t-->Your Score<!--/t-->: Freak- INFJ46% Extraversion, 80% Intuition, 33% Thinking, 53% JudgingWell, well, well. How did someone like you end up with the least common person
Category: personal
Sunday in the sun
Sunday, 24 June 2007 1:22 P GMT-07
Just returned from Pridefest. Need a nap.
Category: personal
the retirement planning may pay off
Saturday, 23 June 2007 10:10 P GMT-07
Chance You'll Live to 100: 89% 100 is looking like a sure thing for you. So don't screw it up!In fact, you may live even longer than that. You're healthy, and you have good genes.Unless there's a robot uprising, you'll probably li
Category: personal
Lily's stage debut
Friday, 22 June 2007 12:27 P GMT-07
I've never been so proud in my life! Lily performed in 101 Dalmations tonight. She remembered all her lines, she projected, her timing was solid. . . . I was so nervous about all sorts of ridiculous things. What if she had to pee in the middle of
Category: parenting
postpartum body
Thursday, 21 June 2007 9:13 P GMT-07
Jenny’s post about the postpartum body got me reflecting on how pregnancy changed my body. Lily just turned five, so I am five years past pregnancy. I trained for and ran a marathon right before I got pregnant, so I was in the best shape of my
$100 well spent
Wednesday, 20 June 2007 7:39 P GMT-07
This is my new gardening toy. I hope it helps me avoid getting into this mess again.
Category: personal
The Penelopiad
Tuesday, 19 June 2007 9:12 A GMT-07
I finished Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad last night. The book tells of the experiences of Penelope and her maids during Odysseus’s 20 year absence from Ithaca. (Digression: When I was in the 5th grade, my class did a performance of Ody
Category: books, film, etc. personal
email obsessed, again
Monday, 18 June 2007 2:06 P GMT-07
My school email won’t let me in, which is probably for the best. I have been checking my email way too often the past couple of weeks. I tend to become obsessed with email when I am in avoidance mode. Generally, I don’t check email until
Category: personal
Random thoughts
Sunday, 17 June 2007 9:24 P GMT-07
Kind of depressed about the state of higher ed in Colorado tonight. Higher education in Colorado is woefully underfunded, with Colorado ranked #48 among the states for spending per student (spending $3364/student, compared with #1 Wyoming’s $13
great distraction
Saturday, 16 June 2007 10:43 A GMT-07
According to MyHeritage Face Recognition, which I read about at Dr. Crazy’s, the celebrity I look the most like is Felicity Huffman. I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen Felicity Huffman in anything. I have been told a few times th
Category: personal
SnagIt, my new toy
Friday, 15 June 2007 9:25 A GMT-07
I downloaded a 30-day free trial of SnagIt a couple days ago and have had all sorts of fun with it since. I used it for the screen shots in my GTD entry. The coolest thing about SnagIt is that when you’re getting ready to capture something on t
My Killer GTD Setup
Thursday, 14 June 2007 9:48 A GMT-07
Here’s my entry in the Killer GTD Setup meme started at Getting Things Done. My killer GTD setup: I carry a full-size pad of paper with me at work at all times. It has my Master List of all projects on the top page. Subsequent pages h
Category: personal
a fine wine
Wednesday, 13 June 2007 10:10 P GMT-07
How cool is this? I am the wine I am into right now. You Are Sauvignon Blanc Engaging and energetic, you have a lot to offer the world - most of it they've never seen anywhere else!You are the type of person who carves your own path in life... an
links in lieu of an entry
Tuesday, 12 June 2007 9:16 A GMT-07
Crappy day. I was supposed to host a cook out for the English Club today, but I cancelled because of a personal issue that I can’t blog about.
Category: personal
mise en place
Monday, 11 June 2007 9:11 P GMT-07
Sometime in the last few weeks, Lily was helping me measure ingredients for pancakes. I first got out all the ingredients and said, “This is called the mise en place.” (I can’t help myself—I love the technical aspects of, well
Category: parenting
packing formula
Monday, 11 June 2007 5:08 P GMT-07
Packing for a trip is always more stressful for me than it should be. I am a minimalist packer—at least compared to T and Amy—but I generally feel at the end of a trip that I could have made it with a couple fewer items of clothing. Somew
Category: personal
grade grubbing
Sunday, 10 June 2007 7:04 P GMT-07
One remarkable thing about the Spring 2007 semester’s aftermath is that so far, no students have complained to me about their grades in my classes. I did have one student very respectfully question her grade, and it turned out that I had made a
Category: pedagogy & teaching
note to self: watch the language
Saturday, 9 June 2007 8:06 P GMT-07
A couple days ago, I was telling a story about some people I work with and Lily said, “So, a person you work with is a colleague, right?” Me: Yes, that’s right. Do you know any synonyms for colleague? Lily: Yes, but I’m not al
Category: parenting
my finest mojito yet
Saturday, 9 June 2007 7:22 P GMT-07
In my ongoing quest to create (and drink) the best mojito ever, I made mojitos tonight and T says tonight's are my finest yet. I have to trust his judgment because I, unfortunately, can't taste a damn thing due to my cold. Here's ton
Category: food
I have a good excuse for acting stupid
Saturday, 9 June 2007 12:27 P GMT-07
As I said yesterday, my ass is being kicked by the cold I was about to brag about not getting. You know how sometimes when you have a cold you can have an almost out of body experience? Like this: Yesterday afternoon I was in a meeting with three oth
Category: personal
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