So, I need one more teaching reference. Is it OK to ask a colleague,
Yes, certainly, as long as it is someone who would be expected to be in a position to judge. A senior lecturer would be better if one is available, but any experienced person would be ok. The important thing is that they be able to report directly on what they saw in the classroom.
Observations and letters by colleagues are standard in building a tenure case, because there really isn't anyone who qualifies as a supervisor of tenure track faculty.
Thanks. I thought of someone better to ask -- the undergrad coordinator, who I know a bit, and who I think I can ask to come observe one of my classes. If he says no, then I'll ask the colleague I was thinking of (who is not a senior lecturer, but he runs the teaching discussion group that I've been a part of, and during the summers, he teaches at a teacher-training program, so he knows all the educational jargon and stuff.)
(I don't actually have any research references anymore, since I haven't done all that much research lately, but I have been supervising an undergrad student on a research project that's actually been getting some pretty cool results, and the person who runs the undergrad research program here is one of my references, so I'm keeping her up-to-date on how that's going, as a semi-research reference.)
I'm not emailing the person until next week, though -- I don't want to get a "no" answer while I'm fasting, because I know that my brain will start panicking then. I can deal with a "no" if my blood sugar isn't plummeting at the same time.
It's so cute when faculty discover old Google Easter eggs. One just discovered tilt. So cute.
I knew they'd appeal to my Buffistas! or at least impress you.
My first reaction was to wonder if The Bloggess had seen those. Then I scrolled down....
I messaged a math major on there for a while...we talked about Numbers. That was cool. I'm not sure if it would have led to a bigger relationship, though.
One of the tabloid shows just did a piece on "Should you be afraid of endoscopy after Joan Rivers' death?" I'm having endoscopy Monday. I've already done the most difficult part -- asking my neighbor to give me a ride at 6:45 a.m. The ideal outcome would be that the doctor spots something easily fixable and that turns out to be what's behind my continuing bloodlessness.
It was pouring rain this morning, and it took me an hour and a half to get to the doctor's. I liked the gastroenterologist. He does seem to be about 12, though.
