You know. Good student evaluations are great and all, but that one email from a kid saying my class made a difference powers me for the whole semester to come.

Just saw a preview for "The Dig" and now I'm wondering--where do I get an orchestra for background music while we excavate? I assume everything sounds awesome to the crescendo of dozens of string instruments! Hmmmm. Bmmmm. "Aw, who bumped the level again?" Dmmmm...

Currently feeling the sublime joy of fixing the dozens of things around the house that had to wait until I was done grading. Leaky faucet? Bam! Squeaky hinge? Bam bam! Reorganizing the office? Well... Maybe tomorrow.

If I've said it once I've said it a million times... Rowan Atkinson's performance in Johnny English Reborn is the definition of 'Oscar worthy.'

Me thinking that I'm playing Super Mario Deluxe like a house on fire. Son: It's ok dad. I suck at this too.

Not sure where this is coming from, but every time we call for the one boy today, he comes out of wherever and asks, 'Yes? Did I win something?' I'm seriously considering applying this to all opening exchanges in my life for 2021.

About to sit down to dinner tonight and I hear one boy, 'Wait. George Lucas is alive???' Me: 'I'll be eating in kitchen...'

Ah yes. Michigan in the springtime. Because why shouldn't you have to mow your grass in a winter coat?

Found many parts of my online course content on several essay merchant sites today. So many questions... Who buys and submits a discussion prompt as an essay? But more importantly, why is this not boosting my scores on academic analytics?

That's not dirt on the car window. It rains ash every night now on Greece

Stopped by the Isthmia dig house to see how the shelf audit team is doing. When asked, they replied 'We're crushing it.' Curious expression considering the nature of the work.

After days and days of punishing heat and forest fires, we're enjoying an absolutely wonderful morning atop Acrocorinth.

Sure, August is hot as blazes in Athens, but a visit to the acropolis on the holy day of the Panagia is amazing. It's a ghost town...

A huge thanks to Dr. Lolos for an after hours tour of the site and his amazing facilities be at Sikyon.

Just found out that in the new online course scheduler at our university, students put classes they want into their 'shopping cart.' Struggling with the take home on that one...

The current exhibit at the MSU Union Art Gallery, "The Art of Archaeology," captures the excitement and visual appeal of the #MSU Excavations at Isthmia in Greece. Read more about the making of this exhibit, which is on display until Feb. 18. cal.msu.edu/news/msu-union…