Thanks for all the kind comments on yesterday’s defense. I’m glad to be done with it and headed on my way with the diss. This May seems to be bringing more closure than the usual finality of spring semester:

1. The law suit is settled. I got what I wanted out of it, more or less. The final paperwork will be complete late this week, and that will be that.

2. I found out today that I won the department's graduate teaching award this year, which includes a lovely check and certificate. My colleagues are seriously awesome teachers, so this comes as a bit of a surprise. It’s based on faculty and student recommendations, evaluations, and the candidate's teaching materials and articulation of teaching philosophy. My primary materials were from an online class called Internet Tools and Issues that I redesigned under the title "Life in the Network." I've worked on parts of it since early last fall, so this was a nice finish to the whole thing.

3. Collin, Derek, Jeff, Donna and I will be panelizing at C&W. The panel is more or less a result of some of the conversations we had in Collin’s Networked Rhetorics course a couple of years ago, so it feels good to know that this will materialize in Detroit.