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Baking buddy came to visit and we made English muffins

Self portrait in reflection of Chihuly sphere.

Image of butterfly

Image of butterfly

Image of butterfly

Image of butterfly

Butterflies and blooms at the Franklin Park Conservatory. The number of butterflies with translucent wings was impressive!

Gosh that would be ugly. But point taken. The way they used to say “all politics is local,” it’s also true of department/university policies. I was recently in a meeting of administrators from across multiple universities and talking about workload policies: the variation was significant.

Congrats!

Oh, so true. Especially in CS programs. I’ve been working on our department’s workload policy and it is such a multidimensional optimization problem. But faculty care most number of courses most, it is interesting.

D’s making lasagna, so it seemed like it was time to make a focaccia.

A homemade loaf of bread on a countertop.

When you have a job that can eat a lot of time, make sure you find some time for non-work. I’m hoping to make my Bluesky space where I highlight a balance. Twitter was mostly work; FB is mostly personal (although work appears there as well). So, I present my Sunday afternoon work: homemade bread.

Yellow shafted Northern Flicker sitting on patio stones.

Yellow shafted Northern Flicker working on the ants under the patio.

Today’s lesson: no matter how good you think your story is, a smart admin up the food chain can cut it to shreds in a half hour meeting.