About this: should we rethink the language requirement? Here is why I ask: the options, for action on the “adjunct crisis,” appear to be cutting the number of students allowed to finish graduate programs, so as to reduce the alleged overproduction of Ph.D.s, or making sure people who do the Ph.D. are also trained for … More Should we recast the language requirement?
Be·m plai longa nuegz escura E·l temps d’ivern on plus dura, E no m’en lais per freidura Qu’ieu leials gaita no sia Tota via, Per tal que segurs estia Fins drutz, quan pren jauzimen De domna valen, Del ser tro en l’alba. I woke up thinking that if one can cast off the lack of … More Aubade
A book I used used long ago in Spanish 202 is now being used in Spanish 431. It could mean that the quality of our language program has decreased sharply, or that this faculty member is not very demanding. It explains why the students found my Spanish 432 so difficult last year, though. What book … More Too hot for Facebook
I woke up noticing that a large part of the anxiety and precarity is financial. I should do yoga and meditate so that I recognize this when it comes up and set it aside. How to increase income: promotion. The rest of it is the self-care issue which is really the self-love issue, as we … More Dimanche matin
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I woke up thinking the sheets were comfortable and the sun was out again, and that a week on the beach doing nothing was all I needed. I never have such excursions since the cost is that of a conference or a month in Mexico or a week visiting family, and seems utterly extravagant since … More The morning revelation
This has ads but you should still watch it. Here we have a great deal of information about it. Your library should buy it. #OccupyHE Axé.
It is this feeling of being indentured, of not having options (I used to believe I had realistic options, but this has not worked out to be entirely true), that I do not like. The best option now involves the Fullbright so I will NOT acquire any pets, and I will work on this. I … More What I thought this morning
So I am over it, again. It might be the mild weather coming in. It is not the work that is dull, even if it is not the only work that could be done. It is the oppressiveness of the institutions and the desolation of the towns that make it so difficult to engage: how … More After the Polar Vortex
Bury the Hatchet trailer from Terpsichore Films on Vimeo. I want a copy of it. Axé.
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