The joys of Silly Season in Alaska. Enjoy Singin' Sam's Web presence here. As you can see, he loves punctuation.

First day of classes down (for me anyway; s42 is finishing up with her grad students now). And along with a liberal use of apostrophes, I'm preparing for lots of everything. The undergrad population at UAF is notably diverse; it's fantastic. My Tu/Th Technical Writing course ranges past the 18-35 demographic and past the North American continent. It includes hockey players and musicians and a mother of seven and a veteran of Alaska Pipeline construction.

There's a open spirit of learning at UAF, and it's a pleasure to have students with wide interests and experience, with whom to build a semester of progressive writing and discussion.

Tomorrow: Academic Writing about the Social and Natural Sciences. Whether they indulge as willingly as technical writers in nostalgic Neil Diamond quotes? We shall see.

As Matt Damon says: yeah I'm a doorman. To the SKY.