I have always considered myself preacademic in some way, but perhaps it is really postacademic — and perhaps neither pre- nor post- has to do with time … they could be currents. Postmodernism, Calinescu said, is a movement within modernism, so…
I would rather live in California, but I did not relate at all to those who remained there on the adjunct circuit. They seemed to want to stay in a cocoon, and I did not, but now I wonder.
It occurs to me I could consider a visiting job at a CSU sometime, for the sake of experimentation. I wonder what it would take to get one at a UC.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
This post is really about how the much maligned Rebecca just knows more about how academia works and how writing works than do her detractors. Sure, if you are in a situation you are happy with and lots of support, you can follow the rules for a safe career and get a lot of academic writing done. She is talking about if you do not have that situation, and if you are a professional writer regardless. This is entirely different, and it isn’t a situation that can be cured by a facetious lecture about how to suck up living somewhere that DOES NOT GIVE YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO DO YOUR JOB and still churn out product.