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So What’s The News?
It has been over a week since my last post, so I thought I’d give a quick update of briefly what is going on. I’ll go in to more details on some of these things on later posts: My trip to Vegas was...
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Note from the Lecturn
A couple things of note: One of my students dropped off in my office a hand made dish towel, a bag of homemade cookies, a Christmas CD and a handwritten letter thanking me for taking the time to help...
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Summer Plans
I know it is really early to start thinking about summer. But the idle hands I’ve felt the past week has made me realize that I seriously need to make sure that I have a plan for this summer. Three...
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The Universe Knows
As if by a chance of fate I got an email yesterday from a book publisher asking me to review a Chemistry textbook for them. It isn’t a lot of money, just $50 to review one chapter of a text book and...
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Extra Money This Summer
This summer I need to earn some extra money – I’ll have lots of “free time” and why not make money to pay off debt? So far I have 3 different avenues that are in the works to get me some extra cash: 1....
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Office Hours
One of the very joyous things I get to do on a daily basis is have students in my office. That isn’t sarcasm. I LOVE helping students in my office. If I could have them in all afternoon I would, but...
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Teaching Over the Summer!
I heard back late Thursday from the Dean of the Science department from the local community college and they’ve offered me the teaching position. I’m super excited! I’ll get paid $3,500 for the 8 week...
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Negotiation
Last Friday I received my contract for the 2011/2012 school year. I was disappointed (to say the least) when I opened it. It was a 10-month contract for $53,800. The amount was up $2,800 (only a 5.5%...
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Three Weeks?!
I can’t believe the school year is almost over. My MWF classes only have 5 more class meetings before finals. My T/Th classes just have 4 (I’m cancelling 1 day to take the students to a conference)....
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Long and Short Term Goals
The past few days I’ve been struggling with the boundaries between work goals and personal goals. See, I taught adjunct at a local community college this past summer and was asked to do it again this...
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