Ok, a few last words before we all take off for Christmas. This blog is going on break and will return on January 10th. This was a hard year. In some ways harder than 2020 because Jumping Jesus on a Pogo Stick this pandemic just doesn’t end, and even if vaccines have attenuated its impact quite a bit, certain governments in particular – Alberta and Ontario, I am looking at you – spent a large part of the year actively making things
So, it’s that time of year when I say farewell to faithful readers for a few months. This is the last blog of the academic year. Normal service will resume August 30th. Today also marks the end of this blog’s tenth year. Which, you know, is a bit terrifying. Because that means this blog is probably over a million words old. I’m sure my mother would have preferred I spent all that time on a doctorate. (You should think about
This is the last blog of a terrible year. I won’t dally. I often do a bit of an annual re-cap but Buddha on a Bouncy Castle who the hell wants to relive 2020? So, we’ll skip that bit. I only have a few things to say. The first, and most important is to say thank you to everyone who works in universities and colleges (which is nearly all of you, dear readers). Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. This
Morning all. The good news is: the blog is back! The bad news is: that means summer’s over. My apologies. Not that “summer” has been more than a vague reference to warmer temperatures this year. Instead of a mixture of research and downtime, what we’ve had this summer is – for most, anyway – an all-out effort to make a semester (fingers crossed) of remote teaching workable. The aggregate sum of all these incredible efforts is a remote semester that might not be
Morning all. This is the last blog before my usual summer break. Service should resume on Monday, August 31st. If you don’t hear from me then, check your spam box: often after I take a break, spam filters stop letting this e-mail through. One housekeeping note: the pandemic has played hell with everyone’s usual schedule and one thing that got bumped on our end (because we reckoned everyone was too busy to pay attention) was the second edition of our
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