When it’s good to miss an anniversary

All this week, I thought today was the anniversary of my last day at my old newspaper, but this says no. Now along with multiple other things I’ve forgotten, I can’t remember the date of my last day at Mother Courant. I guess that’s a good thing. It means I’ve moved on, sort of. I wanted to …

I’m done.

This semester, which began in late August, I taught five college courses — one at Central Connecticut State University, and four as a full-time faculty member at University of New Haven. I counted up once, and that meant that — unless there was a rare holiday — I stepped into a class prepared to lecture, cajole, …

Should 40 hours be sufficient?

Bernie Sanders put this on Twitter yesterday: If you work 40 hours a week, you have a right not to live in poverty. I just started teaching COMM 345 at Central Connecticut State University on Monday afternoon. It’s a writing course where we explore wealth/income inequality through the prism of race. We’ll be discussing this …

So I have a new job

And I took this photo at the first of my two orientations for it, yesterday. I am the a new Distinguished [stop giggling, dammit] Lecturer at the University of New Haven‘s Department of Communication, Film and Media Studies. I’ll be teaching writing and communication, in addition to a writing for the electronic media course at …

All back, all better, thanks for waiting.

So, since last we corresponded in any meaningful way, I: * Went to New Hampshire to camp with two of my absolute favorite people * Moved (not my favorite thing to do, but I seem to do it a lot) * Went back to New Hampshire to micro-camp (one night) mostly so I could hang …

Spring break!

So I teach at two colleges — Central Connecticut State University and Manchester Community College — and both are on spring break this week. I hardly know how to act. I’ve graded the midterms, and graded the papers due at the time of midterms. There’s no lecture to prepare, though I suppose I could practice …

So last night, I went to a planetarium

I teach at Central Connecticut State University, and we have a communication department mentoring program. Last night, we had a meal and then we trooped over to the Copernican Observatory and Planetarium, where Craig Robinson, who runs the place, gave us a program on stars. The first half was on other planets and other beings. …