This is a text-only version Autumn 2025 of my schedule for people who rely less on visual sight (a.k.a., "visually-impaired," but vision is more than just eyeball use, and I don't think people less reliant on eyeballs are any more impaired than anyone else).

Monday
8:00-9:00 - Getting up to speed - this is when I try to assess what needs to be done and try to prioritize the day's projects.  I know that many other problems will pop up throughout the day and totally throw off any plans that I had, but I like the old Eisenhower quote, "Plans are worthless, but planning is everything."  (A more pro-active and less hostile variation on the more popular "no plan survives contact with the enemy.")

9:00-10:00 Office hour - Boehm 135

10:00-11:00 Mineralogy lecture in Boehm 126 - boring young people's eyeballs out with long diatribes about the chemistry and physics of minerals.

11:00-12:00
Office hour - Boehm 135

12:00-1:00 Geology of National Parks lecture in Academic Forum 201 - simultaneously hypnotizing 150 young people using nothing but my deep voice and soothing geology imagery

1:00-2:00 Lab prep
- This is when I make final preparations for the afternoon lab.  Please do not disturb me during this time
 
2:00-5:00 SEM - Scanning Electron Microscopy "bonus lab" - this is an extra lab section for my SEM class that I teach pro bono to help students get more exploration and practice time on the microscope - it allows us to split the class in half, and so doubles everyone's experience!
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Tuesday
8:00-9:00 Loafing around

9:00-11:00
Working with research students on in the Scanning Electron Microscope Lab, or doing other research with students, depending on student need

11:00-12:00 Meetings - either Geology Club or department meeting or Undergraduate Research Committee meeting

12:00-1:00
Meeting recovery hour - trying to regain my sanity after eye-glazing bureaucratic meetings
 
1:00-2:00
Lab preparation - Lab prep  (selecting microscope slides, getting other instrumentation ready for lab class in the afternoon)
 
2:00-5:00 Mineralogy lab in Boehm 126 - hands-on practice and exploration of the stuff people dozed through in lecture
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Wednesday

8:00-9:00 - Getting up to speed - this is when I try to assess what needs to be done and try to prioritize the day's projects.  I know that many other problems will pop up throughout the day and totally throw off any plans that I had, but I like the old Eisenhower quote, "Plans are worthless, but planning is everything."  (A more pro-active and less hostile variation on the more popular "no plan survives contact with the enemy.")

9:00-10:00 Office hour - Boehm 135

10:00-11:00 Mineralogy lecture in Boehm 126 - boring young people's eyeballs out with long diatribes about the chemistry and physics of minerals.

11:00-12:00
Office hour - Boehm 135

12:00-1:00 Geology of National Parks lecture in Academic Forum 201 - simultaneously hypnotizing 150 young people using nothing but my deep voice and soothing geology imagery

1:00-2:00 Preparing for my meeting with my research students.  That could involve assembling papers, outlining discussion plans, or taking a short nap.

2:00-3:00 Research with my special research students exploring the origins of mineral deposits
Please do not disturb me during this time - this is their special time

3:00-4:00 Walk
with a very dear friend (English professor Dr. Jennifer Forsyth).

4:00-5:00 Visit with another dear friend if they're free.
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Thursday

8:00-9:00 Loafing around

9:00-11:00
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) lab either helping someone with their work, or training a student to use the microscope, or maintaining the instrument (i.e., routine tuning, etc. or diagnosing problems to fix)
 
11:00-12:00 Meetings - either Geology Club or department meeting or Undergraduate Research Committee meeting

12:00-1:00
Meeting recovery hour - trying to regain my sanity after eye-glazing bureaucratic meetings
 
1:00-2:00
Lab preparation - making sure the samples for the SEM are ready, checking the SEM instrument for potential issues, etc. preparation before students come in for lab.
 
2:00-5:00
Scanning Electron Microscopy lab - training young scientists to use super high-tech instrumentation to analyze infinitesimally small things
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Friday

8:00-9:00 - Getting up to speed - this is when I try to assess what needs to be done and try to prioritize the day's projects.  I know that many other problems will pop up throughout the day and totally throw off any plans that I had, but I like the old Eisenhower quote, "Plans are worthless, but planning is everything."  (A more pro-active and less hostile variation on the more popular "no plan survives contact with the enemy.")

9:00-10:00 Office hour - Boehm 135

10:00-11:00 Mineralogy lecture in Boehm 126 - boring young people's eyeballs out with long diatribes about the chemistry and physics of minerals.

11:00-12:00
Research with my special research students exploring fossils (paleontology) Please do not disturb me during this time - this is their special time

12:00-1:00 Geology of National Parks lecture in Academic Forum 201 - simultaneously hypnotizing 150 young people using nothing but my deep voice and soothing geology imagery
 
2:00-5:00 Glaze research with professor gwendolyn yoppolo or research with students or ... !!  <8-0
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Here is a good quote for you to ponder:
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    “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” – Anne Lamott
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And here is a nice poem by Danusha Laméris titled "Small Kindnesses" for you:
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Small Kindnesses
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I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk
down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs
to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”
when someone sneezes, a leftover
from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying.
And sometimes, when you spill lemons
from your grocery bag, someone else will help you
pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other.
We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot,
and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile
at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress
to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder,
and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass.
We have so little of each other, now. So far
from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange.
What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these
fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here,
have my seat,” “Go ahead — you first,” “I like your hat.”