Summer Comings and Goings

It's always a bit hard to refocus myself, or perhaps more accurately, unfocus myself, after a school year. I started, as I usually do, by starting to clean up the huge paper backlog that accumulates when I'm too tired to process it. I've already thrown out several shopping bags full of things- magazines, junk mail, papers that had only transitory value. Now, as always, comes the hard part- the attempt to put a system in place that will prevent this from happening in the future.

This year I am aided by a small, quick scanner that I shall be using to try to keep only digital copies of most papers. We'll have to see how that goes but I am always forced to remember and repeat the story of when a co-worker came into my office and saw I had a book called "Winning the War With Your Desk," smiled at me and said, "My money's on the desk."

I've been riding my bicycle a lot, getting out before it gets too outrageously hot. A couple of notes on that. First, drivers, the purpose of the turn signal is to give advance notice that you are turning. Once you are already turning, it's pretty clear that you're doing, making putting the signal on at that point kind of redundant. Also, the stop signs are not suggestions. But the Sunday morning ride is always the best because I have bagels when it's over. Exactly 10 miles roundtrip to NY Bagels.


My other big activity for the summer is my new class. I'm teaching an elective about business math and I have to construct it from scratch. Of course, I can see what other people are doing with that kind of thing, but it's got to be tailored to our particular group of students, though I don't know who most of those students are. That's fine, I'll enjoy it and will keep you posted.


I know I owe the report on my Chicago visit. I took a number of my walking around and talking videos, so I want to upload them and then will wrap my post around them.