The author found the academic blog of Gwynn Dujardin interesting for two reasons. Dujardin was newly hired into a tenure-track position, which she started in the fall at Queen's University at Kingston in Ontario. And her scholarly research concerned spelling reform and education in Renaissance England, so her posts provided witty and linguistically attuned analyses of all kinds of cultural phenomena. The author followed her blog with increasing interest. He was curious to see how she would fare in her first semester--curious, too, to see whether she would continue posting blog entries that sometimes seemed to rival his dissertation in length. However, her blog was stopped because she had become crushed under her new responsibilities and wanted to reserve her intellectual energy for her students, rather than for her cyberspace readers. In this article, the author focuses on discovering what a new faculty member learned about teaching in her first months on the job, and on what she plans to do differently next semester.