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December 15, 2006

new look for the new year

After a morning of wrestling with movable type, I got a decent, new look out of those darned templates. But believe me, MT can deliver a substantial pile driver to an unsuspecting adversary (me). Clearly, I don't mess with stuff enough to remember what goes where, and for about an hour things were getting pretty scary. I thought the old acadeee was gone for good. But then I remembered--tag team! I had to hack into another blog on the WRT server to steal a clean Main Index because I essentially had ruined mine and COULD NOT FIX IT.

I've had a hairy week. Lots of avoidance on the grading and running fronts. My time has been spent with a program called Graphviz working to narrow the study corpus for my dissertation. There are some things I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to do (i.e. control the length/distance of the edges--changing the attributes doesn't appear to work?? Or I'm just not using the correct parameters??), but for the most part working with the program, and explaining what I'm doing with it to those of you who have been kind enough to look over my shoulder as I futz, has made me think about connectivity and the shapes of graphs in new helpful ways.

Also, there's been some snarls in tying up the courses I teach for that small private college. I've got students (these are adults--not frosh) not showing up to turn in final portfolios? *sigh*

I am in a decent mood at the moment, because the money sitch around here looks like we won't have to cancel Christmas, afterall. Somehow all my frugality in the past month has paid off, and we won't have to choose between heating oil and presents. They will be inexpensive presents, mind, but there will be some wrapping happening at least.

Posted by mryonker at December 15, 2006 12:46 PM

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Posted by: Sarah at December 15, 2006 02:06 PM

Posted by: mom at December 15, 2006 09:36 PM