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Note: I just realized that while I started writing this last week, I never actually posted it. So I’m posting it now! This term, in addition to the online 2nd year Nutrition course that I teach, I’m TAing for a 3rd year Food Microbiology course. The course uses Problem-Based Learning (rather than lectures), in which […]
Went to a reading by Chuck Palahniuk* and Douglas Coupland last night. It’s only the second literary reading I’ve ever been to (went to one by Salmon Rushdie a couple of years ago). Palahniuk was actually quite pleased that about half the audience said that they had never been to a literary reading before, as […]
I’ve made my thesis into a .pdf file in case anyone is interested in reading it. I didn’t want to just put up a link to it for the whole world to read because it contains a manuscript for an article that I have not yet submitted (I’m working on it!) and I know everyone […]
Is it just me, or is this door really funny? This is the door of the building next to the building where I work and whenever I walk by it and see that the “Rear Entrance” is “Accessible”, I burst out laughing. But I may just have a really dirty mind.
The final draft of my thesis has been submitted to Grad Studies! On the Doctoral Exam Checklist, I have now completed the first four items (although that’s kind of cheating, ‘cuz items 2 & 3 are kinda the same thing — #2 is “submit two copies of your thesis” and #3 “submit the memo saying […]
You know what is more fun that doing a bunch of finicky revisions of thesis formatting? Doing anything other than thesis formatting revisions.
I just received word back from one of my committee members that she finished reading my thesis. And she liked it! Just has minors changes to make, nothing substantive. Yay me! Which means I now have feedback from 3 of the 5 and, so far, only small revisions needed. I’ve asked everyone to get their […]
I now have my two university examiners lined up. That means my whole thesis defence examination committee is pretty much set! (Although I do have to decide on just three of my five supervisory committee members — two have been picked, one has been eliminated, so I just need to pick the last one of […]
Sigh. The big news around these parts is David’s Emerson defection to the Tory party. Funniest thing I read about this: On election night, however, Emerson told his supporters things like “We have got to look at this as Ground Zero for rebuilding a stronger, more vibrant, healthier, winning Liberal Party,” and added to journalists, […]
Last month I went to see a talk by David Orr, Professor and Chair of Environmental Studies at Oberlin College, called “The End of Education” which was really cool. Click the link if you are interested in checking out the podcast of it. As part of the same speaker series, I’m going to see Stephen […]