There are Totoros aplenty at this party.
The horror, the horror
Aletheia: Daddy, you need to get up. Amiens took off his diaper.
Me: Ok, I’m getting up. [you know what’s coming]
Me: Aletheia, did Amiens poop in his diaper?
Aletheia: Yeah.
And the way that she said “yeah” portrayed exactly the mix of resignation and horror that I was feeling at the moment.
They’re just friends
Aletheia: Daddy, come meet Birdie.
Me: Who’s Birdie?
Aletheia: She’s a girl who’s attached to a boy.
Me: That sounds terrible.
Aletheia: No, no, no. They’re just friends.
That’s one way to get out of school
Aletheia: I don’t want to go.
Me: Neither did the Doctor, but he still had to regenerate.
Aletheia: [blank stare]
We’re working on that
Information Literacy is at the top of the Chronicle’s 2017 Trends Report. Good thing librarians have been researching and developing models on this for a few decades now.
Protecting student work
A group of us were just lambasting “plagiarism software” the other day:
“We do not protect scholarly work by creating a culture of suspicion about student writing. We do not protect scholarly work by turning originality into an algorithm. And we do not protect scholarly work by requiring students to upload and thus license their intellectual property to a corporation that profits off the database it builds from that work. That is Turnitin’s business model.”
Source: Who Controls Your Dissertation?
Blazer and/or bowtie
I’ve decided I want to start wearing blazers again #gettingold #sartorial
Aletheia: Why isn’t mommy eating dinner with us tonight?
Me: Because she’s at a restaurant watching the Carolina-Dook game.
Aletheia: Yeah, we don’t like Dook.
Amiens: Caaaaaaaaat!
Aletheia: You know, daddy, some days we are fairies and some days we are not.
A weekend examen
At the Ignatian retreat. Watching the marine layer roll in over Los Angeles.