The Hellish Handbasket

I guess after you work at a place for almost ten years, it's hard to let it go, even if it let go of you. I'm speaking, of course, a...

My former colleague Sheryl just called to complain about the frustrating world of online job applications. We commiserated for a few minut...

Where's my vampire mojo when I need it? For the past few days, I have been trying to persuade the media relations person at the corporat...

I'm relieved to say I hit the ground running on my first day of freedom. I could have slept in. I considered it, actually. But I had a d...

Yesterday I arrived at work at the career college and found the faculty office in an uproar. Apparently some students, upset about the termi...

I'll give you a hint: It has to do with spraypaint and glitter. No, not really. I'm just kidding. I know I sound obsessed with expre...

After almost ten days of jacking us around, not telling us anything, we finally got the news: when the Clackamas campus closes on May 3, we ...

A recent graduate at the career college called my boss to tell him she got married. She also told him to expect a call from an employer seek...

After a hellish first week, the new term at the career college is.... I can't think of any words to describe how this new term might unf...

I just finished the weekly task of grading the work of my keyboarding students. They are required to type and print a variety of asinine doc...

My last post was my 100th. Yay me. Someone called me prolific, but blogging twice a week isn't exactly a world speed record. Still, I gu...

While I was waiting for George, my landshark, to fetch plumbing parts to fix my bathroom sink, I felt the urge to blog. Dear old Doctor Blog...

In my last post I described the mammoth production known as graduation, which happened on Saturday morning (mandatory attendance by all facu...

Not many people visit my blog, not surprisingly, because I've only told a handful of people that it exists. Duh. But for some odd reason...

Today a colleague showed me a recent  article  from Salon about the “disposable professor crisis” in American higher education. In the artic...

The thought-provoking subject of NPR's Talk of the Nation radio program today  was an all-too-brief exploration of the challenge of usin...