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A Followup Letter

December 19, 2009 in Rantings, Work-Related by Julia | 3 comments

Fol­low­ing up with My Lat­est Spe­cial Snowflake: Dear Stu­dent, Rest assured, the grade you saw this week on your semes­ter grade report was the grade you EARNED in my class. Let me repeat that. I did not GIVE you that grade, you EARNED it. As far as dis­cussing that grade with you, I do not dis­cuss grades […]

My Latest Special Snowflake

December 4, 2009 in Rantings, Work-Related by Julia | 8 comments

Received via email tonight (per­sonal data changed to pro­tect the student’s iden­tity): hello pro­fes­sor this is ********** in your ********** class, accord­ing to a friend in the class that you gave back the exam 2 grades in class which i asked you for it before i left the class on mon­day, you told me you didnt have […]

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Google lost me!

December 3, 2009 in Miscellaneous, Rantings by Julia | 1 comment

Whoa! If you Google me by my maiden name, Julia Ben­son, I’m no longer on the front page except at the very bot­tom with my Google pro­file! Appar­ently some young, very well-​endowed Cana­dian actress of the same name made her debut on Star­gate Uni­verse this fall and has taken over. We other Julia Bensons — […]

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Show recovery

November 23, 2009 in Miscellaneous, Rantings by Julia | No comments

I’m too sleepy to do more than a token post tonight. This was one of those days where I just never quite woke up. I taught my classes & got through office hours, but when I got home I lay down for five min­utes and totally conked out. I woke up to watch Danc­ing With […]

& Being a Polymath">Branding & Being a Polymath

November 17, 2009 in Business, Cat Comments, Lampworking & Glass, Rantings by Julia | No comments

My busi­ness part­ner Andrea com­mented on Twit­ter this week that I totally fail at brand­ing. I tweet about res­cue dogs, acad­e­mia, early music, lam­p­work and jew­elry, words, health care, and pol­i­tics. She’s not alone — I could almost have writ­ten that tweet, though mine would have said “I tweet about res­cue cats, com­put­ing, lam­p­work and jewelry, […]

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