Decluttering: Books

February 14, 2012

Here’s today’s $64 question: Why the heck is it so hard to get rid of your precious books? The academic’s standard gigantic home library (usually spilling over into the office, too) could, we must admit, be regarded as just another manifestation of hoarding. Wouldn’t a Kindle or an iPad be better be better than shelf [...]

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The Virtues of Saving Paper…

February 14, 2012

So yesterday among the several little sh!t-fits I had after the coffee poured into an open file drawer was one of my recurring frenzies over the SHEER QUANTITY of paper stashed in file drawers in my office and garage. Dayum, how I hate all this PAPER! So I started shuffling through it looking for things [...]

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Business Starts a-Poppin’

February 13, 2012

Wow! The corn is popping hereabouts! It’s almost 11 a.m. and there hasn’t been enough time to pause long enough to add a post, either here or at Adjunctorium. We have two clients in hand, both with projects they think we’re going to do right this minute, and a third on the phone inquiring about [...]

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Adjunctorium Returns!

February 11, 2012

Some of you may have noticed that Adjunctorium went defunct for a few days. It’s an unnecessarily long story, mostly involving my arriving at the point where I was too sick to wriggle my fingers just as we were ready to switch the site from WordPress.com to Bluehost. But today I’m up for a little [...]

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Enrich and Extend Your Moisturizing Lotion with…What Else? Olive Oil!

February 11, 2012

FaM veterans will remember the late, great post on using olive oil to condition your hair. Believe it or not, that thing has had the greatest longevity of any post ever to appear on this site. It still draws comments from new readers every few days, after all these years. Well, a recent commenter remarked [...]

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It’s Raining Money!

February 11, 2012

HOLY mackerel! The January statement for the IRAs came from the financial management firm. The large IRA earned as much in January as I make all year when I’m teaching the maximum load the District permits adjuncts to take on. Raining money, indeed. Wow… In the past, when times were good (remember those times?), it [...]

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