In the time since my last post, I have written chapter 1 out of the 3 chapters I need for my proposal. I am shooting at having the proposal done a few weeks after one of my committee members get back in the country (he is in Africa on a safari for 5 weeks). WhichContinue reading “And writing has commenced…”
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Comps might kill me…
As of right now, I am done writing my comps and have been for a month. Yay, glad that’s over, right? WRONG! I have to defend them and that is happening on Tuesday. And I am a mental wreck…I am rereading my work so it is fresh in my mind, but also critiquing it inContinue reading “Comps might kill me…”
Conference, and Colleagues, and Comps, Oh My!
Well I just spent the last week at ASTE conference in Baltimore. I presented my first first author paper, I learned how to be a journal reviewer, and I worked on my comps. Yes in the middle of my 30-day work period, I ran off to Baltimore bringing 12 paper books, about a 100 papersContinue reading “Conference, and Colleagues, and Comps, Oh My!”
Here we go!
Today is the last day of summer break. And this summer I really did take a break…I only took the required three hours (and that was my writing camp that was only two weeks long). Though I did still work. I worked on my research for my possible dissertation topic, I wrote a couple ofContinue reading “Here we go!”
From the Fire
From the fire, I emerge, molten and malleable. Your breath gives me shape and form. I grow, shift and change as you spin me round and round. Stretching toward the light, higher still to glory, and change, to fill the world with beauty and purpose. But just like gravity, you keep me grounded, feet firmlyContinue reading “From the Fire”
So I am almost in the middle…
Well, here I sit, almost at the end of the spring semester, the end of which will denote the midway point (hopefully) of my Ph.D. journey. So I look back and forward at the same time…looking back I see that I am on the right path. Everything seems to be falling into place which givesContinue reading “So I am almost in the middle…”
The End…of 2013-2014 School Year
We have made it…well almost. The seniors are done, graduating on Saturday. I am so proud of them; how far they have come, what they have accomplished, what they are off to. But my juniors and I still have two more weeks. But that’s okay, it gives me a chance to encourage them to startContinue reading “The End…of 2013-2014 School Year”
Late Work and Grading
After my webinar last night (on Sophia.org, awesome resource by the way), I have decided to change my late work policy. I am going to accept work up until the end of the six weeks…no matter how late and in any form. I have to have some kind of deadline, because I have to putContinue reading “Late Work and Grading”
All the things I am
I am a teacher, which means I am a counselor, referee, computer tech, Mom, secretary, disciplinarian, drill Sargent, reading specialist, holder of all knowledge (not true, but what some students think), scientist, cheerleader, shoulder to cry on, engineer, trouble shooter, referee (yes I said that twice), educator, learner, leader, the end to all gossip (really it stops withContinue reading “All the things I am”
Could time go any faster???
Seriously, Father Time, apply the brakes a little here…please!! I am running through my summer like there is no tomorrow, but oh the stuff I have learned! And oh the stuff I am still learning! I spent the last two weeks in Austin. The first week was mucking around in industrial mineral mines and collectingContinue reading “Could time go any faster???”
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