Joseph P. Fisher’s Blog He gets injured sometimes. Sporadic Stimulating Blogging June 7, 2023 I have tried to maintain a blog on at least three occasions. Attempt 1 In the late 2000s, shortly after completing my Ph.D., I was teaching an array of different English classes at Northern Virginia Community College-Alexandria and at The George …
Well, things look different, don’t they? As I promised before, I am going to start toying with new layouts for these blog posts to make them more user friendly, now that I am actually using the blog to, well, blog. Today, I have just a few brief updates. First, I have started building a permanent …
You Ask? Well, I have been busy. For starters, I have been steadily rebuilding some webforms for the Coach Kiprunning website. In addition, I have just put the finishing touches on my father’s website for his small business: Consolidated Tax and Financial Services. And in addition to those things—and as a direct result of those …
More Surgery Stats The title really does say it all. Today marks another entry in the very long milestone marking process of my ankle surgery recovery. I should say up front that I am not keeping track of all of these modest progress points either to brag or to engage in some kind of elongated …
Ugh It has been a little while, I know. Last week was a particularly heavy grading week, so I spent much of my free time commenting on student paper drafts. In addition, I am working on another web project, this time for my father. I have been furiously working to try to bring that project …
Rodney Mullen Is a National Treasure When I was young, I attempted to skateboard. At the time, I thought I was pretty good. In retrospect, I was not. Nevertheless, I knew the culture fairly well in those very early crossover days as the sport was gaining mainstream prominence, but before things like the X Games …
Ankle Malfunction See those pictures up there? Does your ankle look like that? Your ankle should not look like that. My ankle? My ankle does look like that. In fact what you see up there, dear reader, is an MRI of my right ankle showing what is called an osteochondral defect (or lesion) in my …
Welcome Post Welcome to the indestructible, unavoidable, completely-impossible-to-unpublish page for this website’s blog. Seriously, I tried everything short of deleting the page altogether to make it disappear from the search results of the many search engines that comb the Internet. History has shown that I am a very bad blogger. I have tried to maintain …