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Time to get back to work.

Posted in Blogging, Productivity, Stress on June 16, 2010 | Comments Off

Apologies for the long absence; the spring semester involved a change of my day job and teaching 3 classes.  I didn’t touch my dissertation or really anything but what needed to be done for my job or my courses.  Now that I’ve more or less recovered (yes, it really did take a month) I will [...]

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A step in the right direction

Posted in Academic life, Being a scholar, Blogging, Change, Dissertation, Jobs on January 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »

I have a new day job!!!! In higher ed!!!! Let me tell the story…. Anyone who has spent time in the regular job market and looked for a job has heard the old saw that more than half of the jobs are filled through the “unofficial” job market; someone knows someone else, who puts them [...]

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Administrivia: We’ve Moved!

Posted in Blogging, Other on June 9, 2009 | Comments Off

After having a few bad experiences with godaddy’s quick blogcast software, I’ve moved this blog to wordpress.  I’ve redirected protoscholar.com to the new address, so most users shouldn’t see much of a change.  The price of this change was all the comments, because when I imported them on wordpress all the spam came with it. [...]

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Christmas Eve Updates

Posted in Academic life, Blogging, Cooking, Jobs on December 24, 2008 | Comments Off

So very much to talk about…. This month has been difficult; at my “day job” (non-academic) I have survived 2 rounds of layoffs and watched many dear friends and colleagues lose their jobs the week before christmas.  The MBA in me knows why the company is doing it (if you can live on your cash [...]

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A few brief shout-out’s

Posted in Academic life, Blogging on May 29, 2008 | Comments Off

A few brief shout-outs to some blogs I’ve only recently become aware of but have definitely started to follow: Hugo over at the Streamlined Mind included me on his list of worthwhile student productivity blogs, which I really appreciate.  Further, he pointed out that somewhere in fiddling with the format I had lost the About [...]

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A little RSS cleaning…

Posted in Blogging, Organization on January 3, 2008 | Comments Off

Just before I started this blog I “discovered” RSS feeds, google reader, and all SORTS of interesting thinking.  LOVE it.  But it is a hopeless waste of time if I’m not careful.  I can’t bring myself to completely drop the feeds; many have done important things for my thinking, my finances and my emotional stability.  [...]

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So where does blogging fit into all of this….

Posted in Being a scholar, Blogging on January 1, 2008 | Comments Off

It occurs to me that nowhere in the past two posts did I mention where this blog fits into the picture.  But it definitely does. I will continue blogging despite being hopelessly busy.  I will do this for several reasons: writing of ANY sort is a good thing. it helps me process things that are [...]

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Education Policy in the Blogosphere

Posted in Being a scholar, Blogging, Education policy on December 6, 2007 | Comments Off

I’ve skimmed through maybe 5 blogs on my list so far this morning and already come across the following blog posts directly related to my field of education policy: Outside the (toy)box wrote about schoolhouse commercialism, a major topic for one of the faculty at my school. Uncertain principles wrote about the conflicts regarding whether [...]

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How freakin’ cool….

Posted in Blogging, Productivity on November 15, 2007 | Comments Off

Yesterday my first column was posted over at Gearfire. Today that column got picked up by lifehack.  As far as the blogosphere goes, that’s kind of the big time.

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