I think there’s a part of my brain that just likes to mess with the rest of me. That part of my brain routinely whispers the question, “Are you wearing pants?” Really, you’d laugh at how often this happens to me. Just today, I was walking into a meeting and all of a sudden I [...]
I realized last night that a dissertation is a lot like the One Ring, the ring of power from Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Bear with me for a minute. At the beginning of the trilogy, the ring of power hasn’t quite taken a hold of Frodo yet. He’s near it constantly and yet he’s [...]
It’s always strange to start another new school year. The summer never seems long enough (am still investigating what happened to June and July), and the first day of classes never fails to sneak up on me. Last week I noticed more BMWs, Jaguars, and Hummers driving around town, so I knew that the students [...]