coldhearted scientist وداد

That overwhelmed feeling. You have to take control even if according to the authorities you should drift, as well as permit engulfment.

That isolated feeling. The only answer is to create an R1 bubble around oneself and live in it. This takes some effort.

I am addicted to this song, House of Stone.

The adjuncts are suffering and are oppressed by tenured faculty, they say, but I do not know how I survived at all.

Once, leaving a VAP job, I got a farewell card from an adjunct I did not know from the others. It said thank you for always being so friendly and pleasant, it was really nice for me to be treated like a colleague by a professor. But we in Louisiana had always done that.

I associate academic work so closely with oppression, mistreatment, and accusations that it is hard to start working and hard to focus, and I am behind.

I think many people are committed to neurotic suffering as a way to evade their actual pain.

I have to remember is that it is not a sin, it is not murderous to be in control of lo que corresponde, to be a separate person, to have one’s own ideas, to be grown up. De lo contrario — and people even like it.

Across many miles I am drawing my R1 atmosphere to me.

#OccupyHE

Axé.