ashnistrike | Geisterdamen

I seem to have sort of fallen out of the posting habit while I was trying to get un-sick. I appear to have finally managed it; huzzah. When I haven't been doing course prep, I've been trying to get IRB applications ready for the February deadline. It's a pain, but not too difficult, thankfully. And I think I've got the problems with the thesis student squared away--she did an extra analysis that solved the confound, and got the other changes turned around in about two days. Others, naming no names, could learn from her.

I had the very first meeting of my own lab group--all of two undergrads and a graduate RA, but actual minions of my very own. And I had no clue what to say. I need to pick up some recent articles and do a little journal club or something. Aren't minions supposed to save time? And I have two talks coming up this month, and haven't started on either one.

My undergrad learning theory class is so cool. Today we spent half an hour arguing over whether you really could create a set of cultural contingencies that would get people to "save the world" (as Skinner suggested), and what that would mean. I think for the first time I'm succeeding in getting across behaviorism as a philosophy as well as a science. And no Skinner-haters so far. Maybe one of my Monday grad students will hate him. But they probably won't say anything.

I think I know what's going on in the current Girl Genius storyline. I'm probably wrong, but I'm enjoying the ride. Also,