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Monthly Archives: January 2008

My band…

January 30, 2008

Make Your Own Album Cover1. Click on this link. The title of the page is the name of your band.2. …

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Week 1: Grants Workshop

January 29, 2008

Last night was the first night of the grant workshop that I’m attending with Chair.  The Prof who ran it …

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RBOC: Mental Health Day edition

January 29, 2008

I took today as a mental health day.  Well, actually I called in with a migraine.  I did have one …

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The Book Meme

January 29, 2008

This may be the coolest, simplest meme I’ve seen yet: Book Meme Rules 1. Pick up the nearest book ( …

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To sleep, perchance to dream… Or not.

January 28, 2008

I went to bed at 11:30 last not.  Not only was I up every hour, all night, I remember seeing …

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Prioritization

January 28, 2008

The bottom line of productivity is knowing when to say “No”; “Getting things done” doesn’t work if you try to …

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An unproductive day

January 27, 2008

It’s remarkable how little I got done today… Instead of getting up at 9 and getting to work, I slept …

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Forming a dissertation committee

January 21, 2008

This morning I’m a little sad.  My current project is to form a dissertation committee: three people, of whom I …

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Shockingly enough…

January 21, 2008

My best match in the presidential field has already dropped out of the race…. 70% Bill Richardson68% Mike Gravel64% Chris …

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I *heart* google books

January 20, 2008

Part of being a scholar, particularly one with a historical bent, is dredging through dusty library stacks to find obscure …

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Stats with Cats: The Domesticated Guide to Statistics, Models, Graphs, and Other Breeds of Data Analysis

Handbook of Educational Data Mining (Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series)

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (Fiction)

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  • RT @CapiLady: @TheView The GOP supports gun violence. #TheView #MichiganStateUniversity https://t.co/EJAr9bb6OF 1 month ago
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