The Academic Life

"You can only be offended if you let yourself get offended."

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 06:26:45 -0400

“You can only be offended if you let yourself get offended.”

- Said someone at Professional Development today.

After mulling it over all afternoon, through lunch, and a nap, and a walk on the treadmill, I’ve figured out why it bugs me so much: it basically gives carte blanche for someone to be a colossal glassbowl and then to turn around and blame the hurt party for being hurt in the first place.

It’s the perfect mantra of the bully; the backhanded compliment that leaves a person breathless with shame and powerless to respond. It’s the “I’m sorry, but…” that begins every disingenuous non-apology apology ever.

Only this one is especially insidious: it preempts the damage before it is done, and warns all and sundry to abandon all hope whosoever enters into conversation here.
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iamlittlei: tomesaway: Cooking with Tomes Away: Oven-baked...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 06:57:55 -0400

Before

Crispy, glorious after

iamlittlei:

tomesaway:

Cooking with Tomes Away: Oven-baked chicken

Ingredients:

Chicken cutlets
Breadcrumbs/flour/spice mixture (paprika, salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, crushed red pepper flakes, onion powder, garlic powder, all to taste)
Two eggs, beaten (for the egg wash; make it richer with a dollop of heavy cream)
Butter pats for cooking

Preheat oven to 375 Fahrenheit

Dunk cutlets one at a time in egg wash (let excess drip off)
Plop cutlet in the bowl with the breadcrumbs, flour and spice mixture; coat thoroughly on both sides, place in baking pan sprayed with Pam
Repeat until all cutlets are crusty

Put pats of butter on the top of each cutlet, and bake for twenty minutes
Flip, re-butter-pat, and bake other side for twenty minutes

Listen to the sizzle, taste the crunch, never deep-fry chicken again.

Want to try this

littledallilasbookshelf: :O

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 06:11:15 -0400

littledallilasbookshelf:

:O

I updated my blog!!!

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:17:07 -0400

I updated my blog!!!

Read my blog!

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 19:19:01 -0400

Read my blog!

thedisgruntledgradstudent: Future Door Sign

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 06:05:19 -0400

thedisgruntledgradstudent:

Future Door Sign

Summer!

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 11:49:36 -0400

Summer!

The Teacher's Guide To Google Glass - Edudemic

Fri, 31 May 2013 12:34:07 -0400

The Teacher's Guide To Google Glass - Edudemic:

The potential for Google Glass in the classroom is just too great. So we wanted to compile an early-stages Teacher’s Guide To Google Glass for you!

"1. push yourself to get up before the rest of the world - start with 7am, then 6am, then 5:30am. go..."

Wed, 29 May 2013 07:41:19 -0400

“1. push yourself to get up before the rest of the world - start with 7am, then 6am, then 5:30am. go to the nearest hill with a big coat and a scarf and watch the sun rise.

2. push yourself to fall asleep earlier - start with 11pm, then 10pm, then 9pm. wake up in the morning feeling re-energized and comfortable.

3. erase processed food from your diet. start with no lollies, chips, biscuits, then erase pasta, rice, cereal, then bread. use the rule that if a child couldn’t identify what was in it, you don’t eat it.

4. get into the habit of cooking yourself a beautiful breakfast. fry tomatoes and mushrooms in real butter and garlic, fry an egg, slice up a fresh avocado and squirt way too much lemon on it. sit and eat it and do nothing else.

5. stretch. start by reaching for the sky as hard as you can, then trying to touch your toes. roll your head. stretch your fingers. stretch everything.

6. buy a 1L water bottle. start with pushing yourself to drink the whole thing in a day, then try drinking it twice.

7. buy a beautiful diary and a beautiful black pen. write down everything you do, including dinner dates, appointments, assignments, coffees, what you need to do that day. no detail is too small.

8. strip your bed of your sheets and empty your underwear draw into the washing machine. put a massive scoop of scented fabric softener in there and wash. make your bed in full.

9. organise your room. fold all your clothes (and bag what you don’t want), clean your mirror, your laptop, vacuum the floor. light a beautiful candle.

10. have a luxurious shower with your favourite music playing. wash your hair, scrub your body, brush your teeth. lather your whole body in moisturiser, get familiar with the part between your toes, your inner thighs, the back of your neck.

11. push yourself to go for a walk. take your headphones, go to the beach and walk. smile at strangers walking the other way and be surprised how many smile back. bring your dog and observe the dog’s behaviour. realise you can learn from your dog.

12. message old friends with personal jokes. reminisce. suggest a catch up soon, even if you don’t follow through. push yourself to follow through.

14. think long and hard about what interests you. crime? sex? boarding school? long-forgotten romance etiquette? find a book about it and read it. there is a book about literally everything.

15. become the person you would ideally fall in love with. let cars merge into your lane when driving. pay double for parking tickets and leave a second one in the machine. stick your tongue out at babies. compliment people on their cute clothes. challenge yourself to not ridicule anyone for a whole day. then two. then a week. walk with a straight posture. look people in the eye. ask people about their story. talk to acquaintances so they become friends.

16. lie in the sunshine. daydream about the life you would lead if failure wasn’t a thing. open your eyes. take small steps to make it happen for you.”

- Sixteen Small Steps to Happiness (via pigmenting)

Trying to write my thesis

Mon, 27 May 2013 16:49:24 -0400

sharingpostgrad:

all-things-girly: via imgfave for iPhone

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:27:26 -0400

all-things-girly:

via imgfave for iPhone

Spent the afternoon at the ER. Very bad kidney infection combined with a cyst rupturing. Lots of...

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:05:53 -0400

Spent the afternoon at the ER. Very bad kidney infection combined with a cyst rupturing. Lots of pain still & lots of meds.

Post grad problems: your body is so used to waking up at 6:15 that 7:30 makes it feel like it slept in.

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:34:08 -0400

5 Things I Wish I’d Known in My 20s

Fri, 10 May 2013 17:20:15 -0400

sharingpostgrad:

Hindsight may not be better than foreplay but it is better than foresight. I’ve spent a good portion of my life since my twenties wishing I’d lived my twenties differently. I send this as a life raft to those of you still drifting in the twenties ocean. It is my hindsight as your foresight.

Avoid the avoidable. So — here’s the problem. We’re not psychics, but we need to be. If only there were some way we could see those train wrecks coming far enough in advance to avoid them. Well, here’s the thing. The best way to avoid a train wreck when it does come is not to walk on the tracks. If you stay off the path disaster often takes, you don’t have to know the schedule. That is not to say don’t take risks. Just avoid taking risks that are 100% likely to crush you if you keep on doing it long enough. There are a lot of things that fall into that category. You know what yours are.
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classroom collective: Coles Notes: Learning Goals and Success Criteria

Mon, 06 May 2013 17:08:41 -0400

classroom collective: Coles Notes: Learning Goals and Success Criteria:

classroomcollective:

The Ministry of Education is doing a big push for educators to focus their teaching to learning goals and creating success criteria with their students. I read “Learning Goals and Success Criteria: Viewing Guide” and watched a video on the same topic. To know more or do your own research,…

25 Things I Am Still Learning At 25

Sat, 04 May 2013 06:46:07 -0400

sharingpostgrad:

1. The things you think will kill you, in fact, probably won’t.

2. The things you think won’t kill you, just might. And if they don’t come in for the kill, they will at least come in for a surprise attack.

3. People will change. And they will change their minds, change their minds and change their minds again.

4. You will change. And you will change your mind, change your mind and change your mind again.

5. You must do a lot of things in life that you don’t want to do. Consider these to be character building exercises, suck it up, and do them.

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Caught up on grading. Now I just need to compute grades.

Thu, 02 May 2013 18:38:03 -0400

Caught up on grading. Now I just need to compute grades.

givology: #giveinspiration What inspires you to give?

Thu, 02 May 2013 06:42:37 -0400

givology:

#giveinspiration

What inspires you to give?

Allergies suck. Pounding headache.

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:05:08 -0400

Allergies suck.

Pounding headache.

22 Changes You Make In Your 20s

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:17:14 -0400

sharingpostgrad:

1. Losing the ability to eat whatever the hell you want with impunity and feeling no side effects or noticeable weight gain, along with a relative amount of toning over the entirety of your body even though you literally never work out.

2. Taking dates and relationships more seriously because you are finally in that phase of your life where you could actually envision yourself getting married to someone down the line, whereas you were always able to brush it off with something along the lines of “It’s not like I’m going to get married, I’m way too young for that.”

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