This explains a great deal but I would add from my experience that if you are a kind person, yet competent, you are actually LESS LIKEABLE than if you are incompetent and/or ditzy, yet authoritarian and/or a jerk. Part of the explanation is that one gets a pass on those negative characteristics or behaviors if … More The likeability factor
Had I realized the CSA was meeting in Haiti, I would have arranged to be part of that adventure. I am tempted to write the director and ask if I can join late. Even though I am not funded for it, and even though part of it overlaps with something else I am committed to, … More Mais dis donc
…pero blogueo sin embargo. I want to say that I resent being treated like a fractious employee over a project I am undertaking after hours, out of good will, for the sake of the department’s image. When I give my best estimate of the total time needed to finish by the deadline, and of how … More Inblogable
This is the song, and you should listen to it, tu le ton son ton. Tiempo tiempo. Everyone wants more time time time, all the ton son ton, and thinks that if they could only manage their time time time, everything would be done in Time. Every task I did today seemed burdensome and difficult … More Tous les temps en temps
Axé.
Someone said this, and it explains a great deal. Axé.
I am informed that I am in severe distress over workplace bullying. (There is always at least one designated bully, it would seem.) But what is to be noted is that I am in severe distress, which means that the situation is non trivial. Axé.
Public universities are stigmatized as elitist because they continue in the work of democratizing privilege, of opening the best thought and the highest art to anyone who wants access to them. They are attacked as elitist because their tuition goes up as the support they receive from the government goes down. The Citizen had a … More Someone like me says…
Now that spring is coming in I can get up at 6:30, and I will read for research every weekday morning from 7-8. 8-9 is breakfast and commute time. 9-11 is a class preparation bloc on MWF. On T it is a 9-11:30 writing bloc, and on Th it is a 9-10:30 writing bloc. 11-8 … More The new schedule
To counter the students’ love of Paulo Coelho I am to assign Pierre Bourdieu, The Aristocracy of Culture and Distinction. I am wondering, though: if an author is as popular as this, should we not perhaps teach him … ? What is literature? What kind of canon should I work to create or protect? I … More Bourdieu
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