Or, you know, empty my trashcan.

Make that three times today.

I really have a lot of thoughts and feelings about receiving solicitation emails urging me to donate to my university's foundation, TWICE A DAY, while our contract is being renegotiated, budget is being slashed to the point where they cut back janitorial services, etc etc etc

It's not at all that I want the women to stay, but it would be nice if it were a man up next.

Meh. Correcting a factual question is not the same as defending someone.

Not arguing the merits, just pointing out that the original post was a misquote - his statement was about quant, not qual.

wait but he actually is talking about quantitative there? And saying relative value of qualitative is going up? (I'm interested in how suddenly I like him a bit more after hearing that, despite all my better impulses.)

Insomniacs Are Helped by Online Therapy, Study Finds (Published 2016)

I swear I'm not recommending yoga and feel 100% free to ignore, but my partner did this program in 2017 and it literally transformed his life. It's not like everything is solved, but now things are manageable. Just in case you haven't heard about it.
www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/h...

My problem is that over the years I've gotten better at designing those assignments so after getting that number manageable, it's on the rise again.

Me writing my syllabus: I know the students might think it's too much work, but this is definitely the right amount to actually help them grow.
Me at this actual moment, taking a "quick" bluesky break from grading:....

WHOSE FAULT IS THIS?

I'm not sure National Poetry Month is working as intended. By the end of April my children BOTH really hate reading poems. Sigh.

Ugh so sorry

One time I was struggling to lug my stroller with my (heavy) 1 year old up the subway steps and a man with only one arm said, "I've got you" and whisked it up the stairs.

But, like, did you get at all tense when she got behind the wheel of the car? Because I had a real moment, even as I had moments with Dr Robby

I teach research methods to EdD students. This is such a common experience. It really is a very different way of seeing the world and people are very hard on themselves for not getting it right away - especially super-competent professionals like yourself. So glad she told you how great you are!

What does it mean that I can't think of a single place?

Would also want to factor in life/career stage - priorities shift so dramatically with time and first-hand experience. (My own shift almost weekly depending on which thing is annoying me the most, I guess I'm operating with the inverse of "ideal" these days.)

Love it.

Very validating to see it is empirically true what UW Madison is doing at NAEd.

(And I remember being at a cohort meeting and hearing a UW postdoc fellow say that they were all trying to downplay affiliation so the academy didn't decide to switch directions in the future.)

I am on a cross-country flight with a very unhappy baby and while it is not my favorite experience, mostly I just feel so much empathy for the parents. Really can't imagine how people assign blame in this situation.

Sending this to the next email I get trying to sell me AI coding software for qual data.

I mean truly, one quick survey or just a hallway conversation would have shown exactly this.

I would have told them this for $5,000.

Oh, I do that too. I'm easily afflicted!

I totally hear this. I don't usually do 8 days because (a) I think it's more about me hanging on to things I was taught decades ago than meaningfully observing anything and (b, probably more important), I truly feel afflicted and quite hungry by Day 7.

While the @nytimes.com occasionally covered NYC's many civil rights protests, the paper didn't see a systemic problem in NYC. 10 yrs after Brown, Black activists called for a city-wide school boycott February 3, 1964. The NYT editorial board lambasted it as “violent” “unreasonable and unjustified.”

It is absolute demagoguery to say that a foreign student took anyone's spot. Foreign students have enriched and, bluntly, funded U.S. universities. Those universities will be less successful and less desirable as a result of this rank protectionism.

Me teaching high school 2004-2009: "You need to double check everything you see in Wikipedia and be careful to follow all the source links." Me now: "There are no source links."

Y'all. I generally love reading my students' writing (even if I get overwhelmed by the pile of papers). But truly, there is NOTHING I love more about student work than reading an educator's reflection about how much a book meant to them and then sending the lovely passage directly to the author.