Ciao!: Work, inaction, work

Work, inaction, work

09.23.2004

Woke up early for my 10am class, w/ enough time to stop for a latte. Then headed up to the office to pick up my package. It was, after all, delivered to the university yesterday at 2:30pm by FedEx. A call to shipping/receiving confirmed I won't receive my package today. Seems it takes 5 business days for them to walk it across the street to my office. It takes longer to transport my package w/in a public university campus than it took for two private companies (Apple & FedEx) to ship a product across the US.

Class went well; students are starting to get more critically engaged. I'm happy to see the class blog starting to pick up. Feel free to read it; but only students & I can post.

After class, I went back to the Rocket Star for a bit of writing. Had curried lentil stew, and a surprise visit from Vanessa Sly on her way through town. But I did manage to organize some thoughts, plus download Moataz’s dissertation (he’s a friend/colleague who recently defended his dissertation) & read some advice from him.

I recently started using Aquamind's NoteTaker. First, they're probably the best tech support I've come across. They replied to my email right away & even offered suggestions of other software solutions (not their own) I might be interested in. Anyhow, it’s a really cool app for organizing something like a dissertation. It can both import to & from Word, as well as output a web notebook. All in all, pretty much what I was looking for.

And now Bay rolls in, time to shoot some pool.

Posted by Miguel at 04:54 PM

Comments

Moataz is A-1 good guy. Wonder if he remembers me from an undergrad class years ago (when he first came to US).

Posted by: T'su Rii at September 23, 2004 08:32 PM

Actually, there is one big package waiting for you in our office. N.

Posted by: Nenad at September 23, 2004 11:23 PM

Excellent! They'd said they might send it over as "special" rather than "ground" when I talked to them. But it still hadn't arrived my mid-afternoon. Still, a major annoyance. Next time I think I'll be sure to put the building name/number on shipments, not "Dept of Political Science, WMU". Planning on shipping things inter-campus in days, not hours, is just ridiculous.

Posted by: Miguel at September 24, 2004 12:19 AM