August 2011 – Page 2 – coldhearted scientist وداد

Lopez and Hamilton’s Kings of Harmony

26/08/2011

De la musique, pour le weekend. Either I will go to Rising Tide, or to something even more audacious. Axé.

Food

25/08/2011

Experiments this week prove once again that the Mediterraneans are right: you should eat dinner for lunch and hardly eat dinner. This is the plan that gives you the most energy throughout the day and also makes the day the longest and the least stressful. I wish it were more feasible to do this in … More Food

J’ai peur

25/08/2011

I am so depressed already and it is only the end of the first week. Real teaching hasn’t started yet, even. It is the basic language classes that do it. I barely began to recover from these over the summer and it is all starting again. I the angel of death appeared I would say … More J’ai peur

Plata Quemada

24/08/2011

This film is in fashion in the blog world, so I will post the beginning of it. Consider the role of the narrator. Axé.

Y a-t’il un cours dans ce texte?

23/08/2011

So my course is designed for senior majors, honors students, and M.A. students in our program as well as some other disciplines where it can count as an elective. Therefore, it is given in English, although the ideal audience will also have Spanish. It needs 10 students to make and this is the census: 2 … More Y a-t’il un cours dans ce texte?

Wong Kar-Wai Fixation

23/08/2011

A very justifiable fixation. Axé.

Fernando Coronil

22/08/2011

Fernando Coronil, a wonderful person I would have liked to see more of in this lifetime, awaits us now over Jordan, as it is said. Axé, Fernando. Laurent Dubois writes: His favorite place to write was in a hammock, either the one suspended in his office or the one on his front porch, with his … More Fernando Coronil

A las cinco y media, aproximadamente, de la tarde

21/08/2011

Axé.

Should I Do A Foreign Ph.D.?

21/08/2011

I think Mayhew and Kelsky should weigh in on this. My vote is no, no, a thousand times no, but I am failing to convince. Perhaps I am wrong. Background: We have a few older, very accomplished, full professors who, long ago, were undergraduates here. They went away to graduate school and eventually made their … More Should I Do A Foreign Ph.D.?