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Dramatis persona*
Helen Chick
I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"! I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1! * Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona. Visits since May 2016 |
I have been struggling to keep track of all my “special case” students. These are students who, for some reason or another, are not following the mainstream pattern of enrolment or assessment. Needless to say, this is tedious, time-consuming, and a recipe for mistakes and problems. So, I have decided to make life much easier for all […] When I was very much younger (in fact, I was probably only 10), I was quite smart and—as you will see—incredibly naive, and I decided that I was going to be Australia’s first female Prime Minister. It’s too late now. I don’t think I would have been a good PM, not least because I am now sufficiently less […] I’ve been thinking of getting a note-tuning app for my iPhone, and the phrases “tuning fork” and “pitch pipe” somehow muddled themselves in my head to […] I’d half-thought that I might go for a good caching run today, what with it being a “free” Saturday, but the weather was ordinary, and there was long-neglected house-keeping that needed to be done whether I liked it or not (mostly not, except that I feel better if it’s done). In fact, what really happened was […] I had every intention of doing some marking on the return flight, but the plane left in the middle of the night, and I wasn’t convinced that I would be able to fake coherence for very long. I figured that sleep was even more important, and so decided to watch Avatar over dinner and then attempt […] On my return flight from San Francisco I was allocated an aisle seat in one of the blocks of three that run down each side of the plane. The other two seats were occupied by a Vietnamese couple with limited English, who had noticed, as had I, that there were two empty seats in the centre […] 1. I knew there were eucalypts in California but what I hadn’t realised is that they are blue gums. When I was wandering up on the lower slopes above the University of California Berkeley and crushing gumnuts underfoot the air was redolent of Tassie. 2. Although I have also wandered along quite a few of the streets […] The trickiest thing about travelling to a new place is figuring out the plumbing. You take one look at the taps in the shower/bath and think: “Stand back, what will happen if I turn/swivel/adjust this thing?”! Having sorted that out (and a nap after the flight!), I ventured out into the California sunshine. It really was a […] What with one thing and another I don’t get to the cinema very often these days and so international flights are my catch up time for movies. I had some work planned for the flight to San Francisco, but I also hoped to do a little veging out … not least because I’d already done some […] |
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