by Pamela | May 11, 2008 | Personal
There is a fascinating myth that academics get their summers off to play in the Sun. While the only time most of us are allowed to take vacations is in the summer, we generally work just as hard from the last day of spring semester to the first day of fall semester,...
by Pamela | May 12, 2007 | Random
When the freaky green star you are looking at through the apple tree suddenly darts left, you may be observing a lightening bug. Sadly, there are no stars we preceive as green.
by Pamela | May 7, 2007 | Blogging, Personal
The end of another semester is upon us. As you may have noticed, this blog hasn’t exactly been updated for a few days. This was for a couple of different reasons. First and foremost, my day job as a professor at SIUE had me buried in test writing, grading, and...
by Pamela | Mar 29, 2007 | Personal, Travel
As a professional person, I have both the pain and pleasure of getting to travel semi-regularly. There are professional conferences to attend, public talks to be given, business meetings in far off cities, and sometimes there are just vacations to see friends and...
by Pamela | Mar 8, 2007 | Personal, Podcasting, Random
The past 10 days have been an insanely busy whirlwind of activity for me, and I’m afraid real life pulled me away from online life for a bit. Last Thursday, I gave a presentation at my home university, SIUE, on both my research and podcasting (this was an...
