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May 29, 2013

Eye-rolling at the Love Shack

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I received a polite note from the Institutional Review Board today, explaining why they were rejecting my application to conduct my study an...
May 26, 2013

Self-employment and ant wars

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While I wait to find out if the Institutional Review Board at my illustrious higher education institution will approve me to interview human...
May 24, 2013

Losing brain cells to the social media time suck

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The word has come down from on high (Salem): I am now officially self-employed. How weird to go from unemployed to self-employed. I guess yo...
May 20, 2013

Sorry if I offended you

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My former colleague Sheryl just called to complain about the frustrating world of online job applications. We commiserated for a few minut...
May 16, 2013

If nothing else, I can serve as a bad example

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My hero of the week is the guy who expressed his irritation with four of his neighbors by driving a bulldozer through their houses. Rock on...
May 13, 2013

Neck deep in palaver

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Another Monday with no place to go. I have stopped trying to convince myself I am on vacation. Loose ends conspire to remind me that I am no...
May 10, 2013

Is it possible for-profit colleges don't really care about quality?

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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...
May 09, 2013

Who am I?.... Who am I now?

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I'm embarrassed to say, I'm having a hard time letting go of my former life as a college instructor. Time and emotions are messing w...
May 06, 2013

Do I look like a risk taker to you?

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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...
May 04, 2013

Just another coffee-spilling bozo on the bus

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Yesterday afternoon I took a bus downtown to meet my friend Bravadita at Pioneer Square. It was perfect weather, warm and clear, a good day ...
May 03, 2013

When a good idea goes bad

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If you are just tuning in, here's the story to date. For the past ten years, I worked for a career college at its campus in Clackamas, a...
April 30, 2013

Reality takes a holiday

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Last night, with two days to go until I'm officially unemployed, a student looked at me and said, “You don't look so good.” I know...
April 27, 2013

If your life could speak for you, what would it say?

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My family reunited for a brief few hours today. My older brother drove in from the Oregon coast for the day. My sister came in from Boston f...
April 25, 2013

Save our jobs! ...Uh, on second thought...

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Yesterday I arrived at work at the career college and found the faculty office in an uproar. Apparently some students, upset about the termi...
April 21, 2013

Unemployment, public speaking, and coffee

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In two weeks I will be unemployed. I have mixed feelings about it. When I imagine not having to use obsolete technology to teach keyboarding...
April 19, 2013

The slippery slope to slovenly behavior

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Tonight I'm breathing a sigh of relief after a day of good news. My car doesn't need front end work. My chairperson sent my disserta...
April 16, 2013

The end of the world... again

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How many times must we go through this? I'm speaking, of course, of the tragedy at the Boston Marathon yesterday. I'd rather be rant...
April 12, 2013

Do what you love and you'll probably starve... or not

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The last time I had an entrepreneurial seizure, it did not go well. That was a long time ago (1981) in a galaxy far far away (Los Angeles). ...
April 11, 2013

How to survive a campus closing

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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...
April 09, 2013

It's official... life sucks

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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 ...