The Hellish Handbasket

Hi, how was your Thanksgiving? Mine was awesome, thanks for asking. As you might expect, I am not a big fan of the holiday season. It's ...

Yesterday I checked the dissertation online course room to see if there was word on the status of my concept paper. After two weeks, there i...

Tomorrow will mark two weeks since I submitted my concept paper draft to my chairperson. She acknowledged its receipt, so I know she's g...

Apparently there was a salmonella recall on Trader Joe's peanutbutter. I didn't get the memo, so followed a couple crappy days. I li...

While I wait for my dissertation chairperson to review the umpteenth draft of my concept paper, I have some time to reflect once again on ...

The president of our struggling career college emerged from the cyberspace hinterlands last week to send us an email. As I clicked on it, I ...

I uploaded the next draft of my dissertation concept paper to the course room a few minutes ago. I should feel elated, but all I can muster ...

I've decided to stop complaining about the weather. I'm sure you can figure out why. What's a few raindrops, compared to what Su...

If there is a god, it has a sense of humor. Why else would I be teaching a math class? I've been hopelessly incompetent with numbers sin...

It's been too long since my last confession, uh, I mean, post. I'm not Catholic, I don't know why I said that. I'm not anyth...

I'm flogging the concept paper again. It just won't stay dead. The wretched tome was returned to me with a few relatively minor revi...

Despite the gloomy fact that it is pouring rain outside, and despite the equally gloomy fact that the pouring rain feels completely normal t...

I check my email pretty much every day. Today there was an invitation to link up on LinkedIn from a colleague at work. Without thinking, I c...

Last night in the College & Career Success class, I gave a little demonstration to my four students on how to structure a five-paragraph...

After I flunked the two Wilsonville students, Gina and Jimmy (not their real names), I retired back to the Clackamas campus in relief, hopin...

It's so weird how you can be having a conversation with someone you think is completely “normal,” and then they say something like, “I...

As a chronic malcontent, my natural inclination is to focus on the dark side. You could say it's a habit. Some would say it is a failing...

I'm closing in fast on a birthday, who cares which one, and I was reminded of it today while standing in line at Good Will to purchase s...

So much to rant about, where to begin, where to begin... First, I suppose I should grudgingly mention that the weather has been.... fantas...

I'm prying apart my gritty eyes to blearily type this post. I uploaded the second draft of my dissertation concept paper a few minutes a...