After five hours of oral examinations and advising on one paper where I kept saying to the student, “It is not a question of saying whether these phenomena and this concept are good or bad, it is a question of articulating how they appear in the text, and what the text does with them,” we … More Post du jour
It seems that in very many lecture courses there are Power Point slides with a bulleted list of points from the textbook that the professor reads aloud, without explaining. Exams are multiple choice and come from the test bank of the textbook. You can tell the test bank you want fifty medium-hard questions and it … More Revelation
I keep wanting to answer, for me, the question posed at the end of this post, so I will start making a list of the factors without insisting I finish the post all at once. 1. My dissertation was in beautiful prose but I did not have enough background on the topic to be writing … More Des réponses
These are the revelations of the week on how the phrase do not work so hard which I am convinced is a misogynistic strategy (note to men: it is a common line, too, you could try it…) — 1. when it really is a version of I do not have to, because I am being … More On women, and time, and the war metaphor
I am still grading for the language classes, so I am still looking for French children’s songs. This is because the first foreign language I learned formally was French, and I did not suffer and feel resentment as the Spanish students do, but found it amusing. Even now, I find French to be an instant … More
Axé.
Here is another children’s / military song, for grading. Axé.
I really am staying up all night in the office grading, more or less Occupying it. I always thought there should be speakers blasting music through the halls and now I can. I have to have campfire-type music because I am grading for Spanish 3, two sections of it, and I am behind. There is … More Primeros conjuntos tejanos
I am staying up all night in the office, grading and moving things around. Suddenly I see it is December, morte saison, time to recite the Archpriest of Hita and François Villon, because I associate them with winter — the regal and best season, starting in only twenty more days. Here is part of a … More It’s December!
Have you ever been to a virtual conference? Here is one. Do you watch it like a football game, in your living room, with barbecue or something — or do you have it on in your office and look at it while you work — or what? Axé.
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