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Dungeons and Dragons, MarySue, and Me

By ~LS~ On June 17, 2009 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: D&D, Geek, Goals, What I Did Today

I am almost done with cleaning my office. What’s left is the hardest part. My filing cabinet. I’ve done some preliminary cleaning of files, but most of the work remains. I’ve started cleaning and de-cluttering other parts of the house. It feels productive, but the truth is that I’m avoiding the ominous filing cabinets.

The other day I found a videotape of an interview I did with my grandmother a couple of years before she died. I sent it off to be converted to DVD. I hope they don’t break it or ruin it.

I co-facilitated a new Dialogue on Race last night. It seems like it will be a good group of folk. Too soon for tensions or complications to arise.

My therapist seems utterly fascinated by D&D. He keeps asking me how it works, how the rules work, whether or not you can win, how can anyone put [...]

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Bizarre Twist on Nigerian Scam

By ~LS~ On June 15, 2009 · Add Comment · In Random Musings, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Nigerian Scam, Weird Stuff

I don’t really know why I’m so fascinated by Nigerian Scams. But I am. I got a bizarre one today. I’m sure it’s been around for a while, but this is the first time I’ve received one like it. It’s the moneygram scam.

John Atkins emailed me (from a gmail account) telling me he’s sending me part of my money via moneygram. He gave me the reference code and the answer to the secret question. (I will share it with you so you have it too. It’s “green.”) Then the email says you can’t contact him at his email account, but if you have questions, write to this AOL account.

This is a very bizarre twist. I mean, do people really fall for this? Yep. For instance, some county treasurer in Michigan actually embezzled money from the county because he fell victim to one of the scams. How stupid [...]

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More Cleaning Adventures

By ~LS~ On June 15, 2009 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Goals, What I Did Today

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Peaches, Queen of the Universe

By ~LS~ On June 14, 2009 · 2 Comments · In Humor and tagged Tagged With: Humor, Sexism

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The Culture of Student Learning at BRCC

By ~LS~ On June 13, 2009 · Add Comment · In I have to work?, Pedagogy and tagged Tagged With: BRCC, Generations, Pedagogy, Teaching

Maymester is almost over. I will turn grades in on Monday. I had a great class. The students were very dynamic and engaged. I had only one or two students who struggled with the material. This summer, as last summer, I noticed that the students are stronger. They always seem to be that way during the summer. Several students are not actual BRCC students, but four-year students who are picking up credits during the summer. Even during my experience at universities, summer students always seemed more committed, probably because they are aware that they have to work harder in a compressed time. I am sure I’ve written about this before.

Summer, though, reinforces my confidence that I’m a good teacher and doing things the right way. It’s harder during the school year to feel that. It’s not the workload. I manage that just fine. It’s the student culture at BRCC. [...]

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Momentous Blogging Occasion

By ~LS~ On June 10, 2009 · Add Comment · In Academentia, Random Musings and tagged Tagged With: Blogging, Voxygen

Writing is difficult for me. This is my 401st blog entry. Made possibly only because I spent an afternoon transferring old blog entries from my archives and journals. But this is still a big deal for me. I have never been good at journaling. I’ve always wanted to be good at it, but it’s never worked out for me. I love to buy journals to write in. I have many beautiful, elegant, -empty- journal books. I also have a stack of journal books with maybe only five or six entries in them.

The most successful journaling I did was when I was trying to work through my writing block. I read a book, The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, about dealing with creative blocks. Like most self-help books, this book comes with a whole array of accompanying workbooks, inspirational CDs, blah blah blah. But, the book came highly recommended, [...]

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