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Search and ye shall find

2009-11-13T21:25:49Z

A lot profs here tend to give annotated bibliographies as a research assignment just to get students comfortable with and practice in searching for scholarly information from a variety of sources. It's not a bad idea since most of them have never...

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Hopeful

2009-11-12T16:04:35Z

Had a rare opportunity to meet new folks on Tuesday evening that was really enjoyable. It was a get together of parents of students at the school organized by the Eagle Rock Elementary Foundation at a wine bar on Colorado. No babysitter, so I we...

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Another Sunday, another ride

2009-11-03T16:22:25Z

Got in another ride this past Sunday. Better Half and Little One and I first stopped off at a tire store in Gdale to get BH's flat tire repaired and from there I started my ride. I headed toward the LA river bike path that runs parallel to I-5 a...

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A decent Sunday

2009-10-12T03:21:38Z

Today was kinda of fun and productive at the same time. I got up pretty early (for a Sun.) and decided to finally go for a ride 'round these parts. I don't have a good sense of the area or even a decent bike map. Working off the very basic LA C...

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Better Half's Near Miss

2009-09-24T04:35:05Z

More craziness. Over the weekend we had a packed program with going to the PU's for Rosh Hashanah and then celebrating Radio Junkie's one year anniversary of going sober. Through it all, Little One managed to pick up a bug at school that had her...

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Hot off the press

2009-09-15T15:30:18Z

Just received Dr. B's new book in the mail yesterday. What a great first piece of real mail to get in the new home! This has been a long time coming and I'm really looking forward to reading it. I'm always very impressed by people's abilities t...

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Not there, not here

2009-09-10T15:45:58Z

Today was Hamid's funeral. I just spoke with BH on the phone. She said it was really hard to leave him at the cemetery. She said there were about 200 people there. I sure wish Little One and I could have gone, both to say our goodbyes and to s...

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Goodbye

2009-09-07T06:33:26Z

Most of you probably already know that Better Half's brother died on Friday. Given what I knew about the form of cancer he had, I knew it was coming sooner rather than later. And, yet when it actually happened, it sucked the air out of me. Bett...

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More roller coasters

2009-08-27T23:39:58Z

After working several hours on the syllabus for this class I'm teaching, today I was checking enrollment numbers and nothing was showing up. Then I found out from the registrar the Academic Affairs Dean told her to freeze the course. Emailed the ...

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Crunch time

2009-08-27T04:01:53Z

Could it get any more stressful? Students return next week and we still don't have all the website redesign finished (but most of it). The class I'm teaching (First Year Experience course entitled The Art of Being Human) begins Tuesday, and I do...

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