In reality work very little work was done yesterday. I still have to grade, prepare classes, and do these things: – homework update for the culture class – document format issue for this class – film “The Couple in the Cage” [now found in VHS; let’s see about working it into the class] √ – … More Work tracking Thursday
Meansomething flatters me by saying I get a lot done and I am truly honored and it helps to hear it, but let us now review what really happened on this day. Unlike meansomething, my department chair does not think I more than an average amount done and today is a good example of why … More Work-tracking today, #2
The role of this subcommittee is not to take over all functions of the larger committee. Also, if it does do that there will be no reason for the larger committee to exist. Axé.
I had a conversation last night with a friend from undergraduate days, who transferred from an Ivy League school to save money and had a hard time because the University of California was so much more demanding academically. He did not get into a strong M.S. program or any Ph.D. program. Him: How are you? … More The arrogant general public
Bien, it is about 10:30 and it will be 10:40 by the time I finish writing this post. I have dealt with e-mail and website issues for about an hour this morning; where the rest of the time has gone has been to preparing the situation for the famula (Arg.) or asistenta to come in. … More More work-tracking!
I came up with that title for a possible paper long ago and I am looking for the abstract which I know I have. Here is a psychoanalytic-style paper on part of the problematic. Our hero’s separation from the beloved is his Oedipal moment and the whole landscape is suffused with pre-Oedipal desire. I would … More “Gendered Mirrors and Racial Difference…”
Have you ever taken the DLAB or a similar test? I would be very curious to see how I would score. Can I take such a test without joining the military? I would rather do this than have my DNA analyzed. Axé.
This is Las hurdes or Terre sans pain (1933), by Luis Buñuel. We are going to see it in my class on modern Spanish literature. It is very interesting and engages questions of civilization and barbarism, modernity and the primitive, city and country, center and margin. It is a documentary but as cinematography it is experimental, … More Las Hurdes
So far today I have done the following: 8:45 e-mail 9:00-10:45 prepare one class (efficiency high, but this was not quite enough time, as it turned out) 11:00-12:15 teach said class 12:15-1:00 office hours, during which I met with a colleague and a student to create a new outreach program and also worked on an … More Tracking work, again
I do not know how I came upon this piece as I was doing something else but it appears that orphanhood is what generates the novel. Vallejo, as we know, kept saying he was an orphan and I do not have a lot of patience with complaints from persons orphaned as adults, or with persons … More On Vallejo, Heidegger, and my other project
coldhearted scientist وداد 