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Go, Drake!
Despite my “meh/this was really more difficult than it needed to be” experience in the music department, I have to say that Drake did earn its respect from me as an institution in several aspects. When bad communication and management is a precedent, the student body of a college or university can tell–and Drake by [...]
Mike crawled out of bed at his usual time this morning (5 a.m.), and there was virtually no snow on the ground–maybe an inch and a half, and that is a generous description. Bern went on her morning walk, and I got an automated text message to my phone from school that we weren’t opening [...]
Here’s a quick post going up during my lunch break. As a bit of forewarning, we will probably edit this post later this evening, with a few more details about Minneapolis.
Regarding Minneapolis, Mike and I have a few things that we would like to do. Here’s the short list from my lunch break memory:
Dinner at the [...]
So I decided to take the day off today, since 90% of the graduate degrees are accounted for, and the rest will be wrapped up next week. Unlike the days when Mike stayed and worked from home due to his leg, the dog is sleeping on the bed, and looks a bit annoyed when I [...]
1. I do not like to blog at work, because I think it’s rather inappropriate.
2. I AM currently blogging from work, because our wonderfully courteous IT department decided to push through Office 2007 last night on all of our computers, without notifying us. My work computer is a Dell 250 which runs extremely slowly, and although I [...]
So it’s been an interesting week. Tuesday evening’s 50th anniversary “celebration” for the graduate school turned out to have a few highlights, and a lot of time spent wondering whether or not the university is truly proud of its graduate school, or not. Our keynote speaker and alum was a fantastic speaker and [...]