Assessment = Grade?
I was in one of those meetings with people where we were supposed to talk about assessment stuffs, and the question came up: Assume you have three possible outcomes for a specific assessment bit,...
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It's been a while.I sort of posted a what's up post in January. My Mom spent the last of December and the first third of January in the hospital, and I extended my stay for almost two extra weeks....
View ArticleTwo Years In
I've been chair for two years now, and am looking into the final year before I retire. So this is a little weird. Everything for the last time, to some extent: my classes, the chairing work, all...
View ArticleYes, Retiring!
Since a couple of people kindly asked, yes, indeed, I'm planning to retire during summer of 2023.As to what I'll do when I retire? I learned when I had sabbatical that I'll never be bored, so there's...
View ArticleBeginning Again, For the Last Time
We've come back "under contract" now, and so it's time to get ready for the new school year. We have two weeks til classes begin, so plenty of time. And not.This is my last fall getting ready for...
View ArticleRetirement Meeting
I had a meeting with one of our HR folks about retirement stuff, making sure I understand what I need to understand, when to do things, and so on. It was really good.I found out approximately what my...
View ArticleMajor Tom to Ground Control...
Or lack thereof?I'm usually moderately excited to be teaching new courses every fall, to be seeing students, and so on. Planning my courses is usually fairly pleasurable; it's like a fantasy: what...
View ArticleRetired: A New World to Explore
It's been a while. Let's just say that there's so much unbloggable stuff for a chair, and anything that's bloggable is boring. I don't think anyone wants to read about the hassles of trying to...
View ArticleSeen on the Street
I was in the SF Bay Area last week, and saw this: Several friends quickly identified it as a new Tesla truck. And one of my cousins said that it looked like they had done the camouflage wrap to...
View ArticleBig Basin: After the Fire
When I was in CA recently, I visited one of my favorite places, Big Basin State Park. I haven't been there since some cousins and I went camping there (in July 2018, when I was on sabbatical). (It...
View ArticleI went to a play!
Ahhh, retirement! I went to As You Like It at the Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona, MN. I haven't been to the GRSF for a long time, I guess, or at least hadn't blogged about it. Then I saw...
View ArticleAnd Another Play!
Yesterday, I went to the brand new Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival's production of As You Like It, in Eau Claire, at the newish Pablo Center. The Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival was announced a couple...
View ArticleAnd Yet Another Play, Even Better!
Today I went to the Great River Shakespeare Festival production of The Winter's Tale, and it was stellar. I so enjoyed it! Paulina was amazing, just superb.They did some really interesting staging....
View ArticleNew Developments at the BardiacShack (tm)
In April or so, a friend of mine told me about an acquaintance who's going through a painful divorce and was looking for a place to stay for a couple of months during the summer. Without a great deal...
View ArticleBench is Back
In 2018, I did this project to make my wood bench look better. I started with this:I sanded and primed and painted and got this: It looked pretty good for a while, but about two years ago, things...
View ArticleOn Watching Yellowstone
I'm late to the game, of course, but when I subscribed to the streaming service to watch the Tour de France, I also gained access to Yellowstone streaming. So I watched.Most things have been said:...
View ArticleProgress
I finished painting the bench (see this one and also this other one for previous bench adventures), and with help from a visiting grad school friend, reconstructed it and moved it back to my little...
View ArticleTagging Monarchs
Last weekend, I went to a state conservation education program on Monarch butterflies. We learned about butterfly biology and migration, and learned about the current generation of "super generation"...
View ArticleDreaming
Last night, I had my third academic anxiety dream in recent weeks. They've all been basically the same: I'm trying to figure out my schedule or where my class meets, or something similar, and I can't...
View ArticleNext Adventure
For a few years now, I've been looking at Voyageurs National Park and thinking I'd like to visit. But Voyageurs is sort of unique, different from most National Parks. Most parks, at least the ones I...
View ArticlePractice Run
I don't camp nearly often enough. Or something.When I talked to the guide about camping at Voyageurs, I asked about temperatures, and he said I could expect 40 F or so at night, and 60s during the...
View ArticlePacking
I'm getting ready to head north to International Falls tomorrow. So I should be packed. I'm not. Most of my camping stuff is on the floor of the living room, but I really have to dig in and get...
View ArticleNot Flying
In Life, the Universe, and Everything, Douglas Adams writesThere is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. … Clearly, it...
View ArticleTotal Trivia: the 2 r rule
Bev of Excelsior has a post recently on trivial knowledge. What's the most trivial thing you know?Here's mine: in black letter printing, there are two forms of the letter "r" (miniscule).It's easier...
View ArticleBeginning in media res
Saturday - It's been a while. I've been meaning to get caught up, but I have a problem getting pictures from my phone organized onto the computer. So there won't be many pictures until I figure that...
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