How's things? Swell, pretty much...

I am working on a new podcast--no really, thank you, no, hold your, no...I...thank you. It's about AiG and their goofiness. There may be some other stuff too, but for now...it will have to do. Actually, I did make a couple of podcasts for a work-related project. I tried the two-host dialog format, which went really, really well, and I may want to try here that in the future, if I have any volunteers to see how I could make that happen online....Just saying. Maybe we could do an "Interview with a Subscriber" format. I'd really like to meet you. I know Ben and Flavin personally (just to brag a little) and I met the PerkySkeptic and her husband at Dragon*Con, and I would like to know what else is going on out there. This could be fun. Just an idea. I have heard that Skype has a feature, but I don't know if they still do. The Skype stuff that I have heard sounds pretty good, actually. The work-related project that I was working on was to come up with a way to use podcasts in the writing classroom. I and my new office wife recorded a conversation about the subject. I took it, edited it down and threw in some goodies. I may have to re-edit it to use on this podcast, and it is not exactly skeptical (although I do make some references to a couple of skeptical things I have used in class). But we'll see.

This last week has seen me at a number of excellent public gatherings. U2 was a hoot. Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood were a lot of fun too. I have always wanted to give improv a go, even if it was a class. I already do what I call "The Bing Show" everyday in front of classes. Now I'd just try to be funny.

Oh well.

I have found myself involved with a sci-fi conference. I will be chairing the session "Space Ants and Their Relationship to the Poetic Corpus of the Minor Indo-Eurasian Midget Lesbian Eskimo Diaspora." (You didn't think I'd actually tell you which session I was going to be on, didja?) So that is coming up at the end of the month. I will also be going to another conference in the middle of next month to give a paper with some of my old pals from grad school. Good times. Building the CV.

I have decided that I don't really want to look for a tenure-track position this year. I want to enjoy the appointment that I have. I have time and will start up again next year. Of course, my current gig was one that I picked up on in the Spring of last year, so there is that, if the right position opens up. I have not seen a lot in my field, honestly.

Tomorrow is the dreaded lecture on citation styles. The problem is that we do not have physical style guides in my class. Had I realized that this would caused me to have to print up a cheat sheet and then photocopy them for everyone so we could do an in-class exercise, I might have thought twice about the whole arrangement. Damn it. But I learned something. Innovative pedagogy is damned hard to get right the first time, even when it should be easy.

HJ