http://flaneuse.org wanderings virtual and real Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:20:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sunday nights have always made me nervous. I want to get everything ready for the week that I can -- not that there won't be things I can't prepare for, but that I want to be as prepared as I can. And I never am. I invariably oversleep the alarm ... http://flaneuse.org/2008/07/14/getting-ready-for-the-week/ I definitely did not grow up a beach girl. Given that I lived in Colorado, I guess that's not all that surprising. But I am a convert. There's something about sitting on the sand, watching and listening to the water, talking lazily that I really enjoy. I do worry about ... http://flaneuse.org/2008/07/13/ahh-the-beach/ We're in the library computer lab today doing research on "issues related to Afghanistan"  and different genres of media -- a topic and method I have left intentionally broad. Students keep asking me, Caitlin, and Meghan -- "Now what exactly am I supposed to do??" and I keep turning the ... http://flaneuse.org/2008/07/09/doin-research/ Well obviously I have left this blog to go all to hell -- I started teaching the summer prefreshman course and then promptly got sick -- went from a 2 day migraine into a stomach virus. I thought of the terms "sick as a dog" more than once -- and ... http://flaneuse.org/2008/07/08/that-went-well/ Here is the post I asked them to do. Complete the following sentence: Reading is... My life My favorite escape Sometimes my demon (triggers migraines, I have too much reading to do) A way to learn to see the world A way to learn more than just what we're taught http://flaneuse.org/2008/07/01/blogging-what-my-students-blog/ I so desperately needed that break. I couldn't blog, could barely read the news online, could just lay and read regular books and go home for the weekend and forget about things. In fact, I think that worked so well that I am getting cabin fever and am in a ... http://flaneuse.org/2008/06/23/did-you-think-i-had-forgotten-you/ I ended up having a migraine yesterday -- perhaps thanks to the fluorescent lights and staring at my screen too much. Today is much better -- we're working on specific projects with people to implement into their classes. The more concrete we can make new technologies, especially by creating exact ... http://flaneuse.org/2008/05/21/better-today/ I think I need to spend a week off the grid, out in the mountains or desert. My eyes are crossing from looking at a screen too long. And let me tell you how much I don't want to go to the grocery store on the way home, but the ... http://flaneuse.org/2008/05/20/im-tired-of-technology/ The conference is over, I am working in a summer hybrid tech camp for faculty, and things are slowing down, bit by bit. So I turn my thoughts to something else -- traveling and taking pictures, which are two of my favorite things. Recently, with some leftover grant money, I was ... http://flaneuse.org/2008/05/20/big-deep-sigh/ This morning, as I trawl the web for nuggets of interest, I find on Higher Ed a great article about professors online. The article points back to another on in the NYTimes this weekend about professors' online presence -- about how and what having a blog or a MySpace or Facebook ... http://flaneuse.org/2008/05/18/am-i-really-that-easy/