job interview
My friend told me the interview will probably ask for examples of a difficult teaching experience you have had. Which one should I share? So much gold but so many […]
Bob Wiseman
gadzooks
Watching an old interview with Colonel Tom Parker about Elvis and he never was involved with selecting any songs. Reminds me of the older recording of Frank Zappa explaining how […]
assignment #2
The assignment this week was to write about something that would get you into trouble or else write about someone in jail for something you do not believe fair or […]
morris
My father’s birthday. He would almost be 100 years old. He was the only one in the family of six who did not play an instrument but he had an […]
kaspar houser
Predictably some students did not hand in the first assignment. I have learned that this is a special moment because if I let it slip, it signals they can do […]
in the papers
Scott Thompson from Kids In The Hall has a band called Mouth Congress. I am working on adding piano and miscellaneous electronics to three of their songs. It is fun […]
bhujangasana
Planning the PhD inspection. Feels pretty good to me but whenever something feels pretty good usually it means you are oblivious about how things could fail. Like the time the […]
3 parts
While putting my daughter to sleep she told me she fears strange sounds when she is alone in the house. I reassured her about the origins of some pipe sounds […]
my heart is in the highlands
For the job they want me to do a lecture. I guess that is their way of determining what I am like as a teacher but the truth is I […]
none of it
There is a young man volunteering in my office once a week. I met him while being a teaching assistant last winter for his music class. The other day he […]