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It's August....already?

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Lunch at Aragosta, Stonington, ME So here I am, on August 8, starting to plan for the new semester, which will be my last one as a full-time (well, full-time sort of, part-time/full-time) professor. Retirement, here I come! I met today with Rob Mundy , a professor of English and director of the Writing Enhanced Course program.  So I'm starting to think about syllabi, books, assignments, stuff like that. I'm guessing that for me, in a way, summer is over. What about you?

Pilgrimage and Vacation

Please go read my blog post at  Hudson River Presbytery .

Summertime! And the living is easy...

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Or is it? Between the news from Istanbul, and the "Brexit" vote, I'm starting to feel like "I'm just visiting this planet." So I changed the title of this blog from the bland, "Connie Knapp's Blog" to "I'm just visiting this planet." Because that's how I feel. And then there's my own stuff-planning my retirement from 30+ years of college teaching. And there's another place where I have other worldly experiences-college teaching has changed drastically over the last 30 years, but that's another story-visit me at Being An Information Systems Professor  for that story. I do love the summer, and I always have a list of projects miles long. This summer is no different. So, just for fun, here's my list: Finish Sage Lewis's Udemy course on setting up a GoDaddy web site using Wordpress. Finish AndrewWilliams's Udemy course on plain old Wordpress Start Andrew Williams's Udemy course on installing Wo