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Professors’ preoccupations – grading

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Pat Bowne

Gina Barreca over at Brainstorm listed six ways to make grading easier, and immediately I was hooked. Like any kind of workers, profs love to talk about better ways to do the key tasks of the field. I had so … Continue reading →

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Thus I refute Zeno (sort of)

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Pat Bowne

As of 7:35 am, everything is graded and all grades posted to moodle! At 8:10 am, I’ll give the next quiz… TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

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Mullein moths

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Pat Bowne

My mullein plants have been stricken with caterpillars. Dull-looking white caterpillars, embedded in a mass of dirty fuzz covering most of the plant. Normally, I would be able to look this up online. But unfortunately, there’s this thing called the … Continue reading →

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Something that has nothing to do with writing

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Pat Bowne

This is my amazing neighbor and one of the chipmunks she has tamed. His name is Theo. The others are Peewee, Rocky, and Bob. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

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Where I Work

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Pat Bowne

My day job starts tomorrow, and the long weekday afternoons of editing in the garden are over for another year. In spite of all the time I spent traveling, this has been a tremendously productive year by my standards. I … Continue reading →

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I told you so, I think

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Pat Bowne

Didn’t I say publishers would be unnecessary as gatekeepers and quality control when adequate indexing was created so readers could find stories with the content they wanted (à la fanfic.net)? Well, here comes a new service, Bookish, backed by three … Continue reading →

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Summer Reading

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Pat Bowne

I may be jumping the gun here, but I think I’ll survive the spring semester! In which case, I will need something to read in the summer, and I’ve finished all the issues of Skip•Beat!, so I need suggestions. Of … Continue reading →

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Conversations and The Lyre of Orpheus

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Pat Bowne

The book club I belong to, the Burrahobbits, met last week to discuss The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies, a book I’d been suggesting for quite a while. I was nervous. Davies was one of my favorite writers in … Continue reading →

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A Five-star Review!

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Pat Bowne

Sofia Samatar gave ‘Advice From Pigeons’ 5 stars on Amazon, and a great review! Woo hoo!  and many thanks. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

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College Girl Literature – does it matter?

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Pat Bowne

My new fave blog, Geekachicas, posted last year on College Girl Literature and recommended some of my favorite books. The thing that made me uneasy, though, was that these were my favorite books quite a while before I entered college.  … Continue reading →

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