Titus

For years I thought I'd never leave the classroom, but as an administrator I'd have the ability to help usher in a culture change of a school and community.

Only thing the current environment has done is raised my monthly student loan payments...

11.01.2026 19:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeppers, in education, my mentor is trying to convince me to get my PhD... I'm not sure I'm ready for that yet, but it's possible.

11.01.2026 18:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm going to do my best to be more active. I'm one semester of my internship away from my Master's rocking a 4.0, so that's been pretty good!

11.01.2026 18:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A Bears'playoff win, a morning of cat cuddles and a big workout; this is the perfect final weekend before my last semester of grad school.

Growth is not always linear, this has been a challenging 16 months, but the healing continues and life improves.

11.01.2026 17:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

08.01.2026 00:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Was a very crazy end of my year and I'm sorry for the silence. I had bicep surgery around my birthday in August and then adopted another cat.

Here's my boys...

08.01.2026 00:33 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I feel you, I'm so burnt out with grad school, my internship, being department chair and teaching 4 different courses with only one plan period. I'm finding myself very cranky.

But it's par for Novembers...

So I'm going to share a picture of Big Tuna and Mr. Nimbus to bring cheer.

14.11.2025 00:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Last minute Kesha and Scissor Sisters tickets?

Yes, please!

20.07.2025 00:22 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Umberto Eco was right all along I am Italian. I had the absolute privilege that only Italian speakers have to have read Umberto Eco's books in their original language.

9 years ago Umberto Eco died...30 years ago he gave a speech at Columbia University, this became a small book called Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Way of Looking at a Blackshirt.

This is a great article from The Medium that talks more about Eco...

micheleriva.medium.com/umberto-eco-...

21.02.2025 13:54 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Finish my grad school paper that's due in over a week or be tactical pibble?

24.01.2025 03:20 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Going through a rough patch?

Be like Big Tuna, keep your chin up!

17.01.2025 13:49 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A year ago, I had an artificial disc replacement in my neck. 7 months ago, a two level cervical fusion. Over the last five months, I've had to make several major life changes...

Life is hard, be harder!

14.01.2025 21:03 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Big Tuna was upset my first post on here wasn't pictures of him... so he insisted on posing - he didn't want me to include him almost falling off the bed though.

I really think his impression of "The Puma Logo: 'Bulking Season'" is perfect.

02.01.2025 13:42 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New year, new house, new pix,new goals.

Same dog, same wonderful goofy cat roommate, same attempts at thirst trap pictures!

02.01.2025 12:43 — 👍 19    🔁 2    💬 4    📌 1