It’s been a crazy<\/em> week as we run up to Spring Break (mid-terms, etc.) and huge amounts of my time have been spent chairing our search for a new tenure-line faculty in Computer Science. Several times I’ve really want to post stuff about the search (as a release if nothing else), but so much of that is confidential so I just get to keep my yap shut.<\/p>\n

Sue and I both struggled with a nasty head cold last weekend, and that didn’t help, but we’ve both recovered well.<\/p>\n

I think I can, I think I can, I think I can…<\/p>\n

Currently listening to<\/strong>: “Road pizza” by Spit, from my KUMM<\/a> show paying tribute to John Peel last November. This is a brilliant<\/em> song from an otherwise less-than-pointless album; some of the strongest extant evidence that not everyone has an album in them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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