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August 31, 2012

Wanted: Mystery shoppers for mammograms and colonoscopies

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Last night I posted Chapter 3 of my concept paper for the chairperson to chew on over the next week. She's taking an extra day over the ...
August 28, 2012

Students and teachers: a match made for the hellish handbasket

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Mid-way through the week, feeling hammered by life, but as tired as I am, I am hopeful that my concept paper is finally emerging from the mu...
August 26, 2012

Hi, my name is Carol and I'm a misanthrope

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Today the weather was not nearly as fine as yesterday, but I ventured out anyway, thinking of the recent study that found a correlation betw...
August 24, 2012

Fall is nothing to sneeze about

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I'm staring bleary-eyed at this white box, thinking that if I type something here, that when I return to typing something in that other ...
August 23, 2012

When it is time to burst out of the bubble

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This evening as the sun went down in between thick puffy clouds, I walked for an hour on the trails winding around the extinct volcano, half...
August 21, 2012

The few, the proud, the over-educated

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Good news from my chairperson. She liked my Chapter 1. A few minor changes, and I'm good to move on to Chapter 2, the Literature Review....
August 17, 2012

Where burned out teachers go

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As the mercury leaps toward the century mark outside, I hunker in the Love Shack with all my west-facing windows barricaded against the appr...
August 16, 2012

The dog days of discontent

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It was a difficult week at the career college. Difficult for my Access and Excel students, who on Tuesday soldiered through their first test...
August 11, 2012

Procreate without me

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Today I chauffeured my mother to her brother's wife's 80th birthday party. Tucked into a hollow on the side of a hill above Corneliu...
August 09, 2012

Self-deception is how I survive a life of cognitive dissonance

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John Perry and Ken Taylor, my favorite living radio philosophers, are dissecting the problem of self-deception on Philosophy Talk . Why do w...
August 07, 2012

And now a encrypted message from my cat

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I should let my cat write my paper. That is the conclusion I reached tonight, as I sweated over grammar and fretted over punctuation. As I w...
August 05, 2012

Malfunction alert: the temperature has fallen below the unit's optimum range

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My next dissertation course starts tomorrow. This was to have been my last course, the final one of 27 courses, after six-plus years and the...
August 02, 2012

From now on, please call me Reticence

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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...
July 29, 2012

Toward a theory of malcontentedness

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I'm emerging from the long, dark, tortured night of the soul. I think. We'll know for sure after I finish the next version of my dis...
July 27, 2012

I could never be friends with someone who likes country music

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Today I woke up to clouds, and the rest of the day just went to hell from there. George, my landshark, arrived at about nine to continue his...
July 24, 2012

Did the utilitarian philosophy just dive bomb my head?

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You can tell it's summer because there are flies everywhere. Or maybe it's my lousy housekeeping. A fly is buzzing my head, and my c...
July 21, 2012

I'm a blip

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In the wake of the various disasters and traumas in the news, I am finding it hard to focus on the trivially mundane, parched, pedestrian bl...
July 17, 2012

Curiouser and curiouser

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Curiouser and curiouser is all I can say. The crazy online university I have been privileged to pay my discretionary income to for the past ...
July 13, 2012

Time to put on my thinking cap

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I got the news yesterday. I'm sad to report my concept paper is not ready for prime time. Yet. I hope there's a yet trailing along s...
July 10, 2012

Waiting

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I had a dream last night. I was following a wilderness path, struggling over mounds of dirt, around thorny bushes, clawing my way along a ch...