I am too overloaded with service and administration and it is detrimental not just to me but to the other entities who are affected by it. But when this is not the case, things are not done and it is differently detrimental, particularly to me. One needs to have boundaries and say no. But when … More Conundrum
Today I finished a rough draft of a strategic plan for my unit. I gave it to someone else to edit, as this project is not mine alone. I spoke to my outside speaker. Over the break I am going to create a final draft of the website, and finish a complete, if not perfect … More Rinascere
Today my student sent his manuscript off to New Directions, which is interested in it. This was exciting for him, and for me in large part because it was his first time sending paper mail. I taught three classes, finished an enormous backlog of grading, and completed a full draft of the new departmental website. … More Equinoccio
I have become calm about work for the first time in many years because I have decided that I am all alone until further notice. I used to think I had to become a different person so that certain individuals would not be obstructive or manipulative or exploitative, or that I had to negotiate with … More Luxe, calme et volupté
I would like to put my time into creating marvelous, magisterial lectures based on my broad knowledge and ground-breaking research, and working with seniors and (good) graduate students on special projects. I wish someone else were handling the 2/3 of the discussion groups and the grading … I would do 1/3 … and we could … More La nostalgie
I would like to teach foreign languages if I didn’t have other things I wanted to do, and if I could be involved in something like this — a cool project with colleagues and resources. I would also gladly teach foreign languages as a sideline or as service teaching if I had a leader who … More Things that would make it all right
Our current imaginings endow the market and its associated forms with a special status. We think of “the economy” in terms of natural forces, into which we occasionally intervene, rather than in terms of a whole variety of social relations that need some kind of co-ordination. Thus “work”, for example, is understood in a very … More Vocabularies of neoliberalism
What we actually want may be what we have, but I took the weekend off and had a truly nice and interesting time. Like the people who always have pleasant weekends, I think, riding bicycles, days at the beach. With my mind clear I am entirely ready to do work and especially research and writing … More I want a research job
Orig.: Wives but especially parents laughing brightly, keeping a stiff upper lip as they leave. Then, that somber drive home. Version 1: Wives, but especially parents laughing brightly, keeping a stiff upper lip as they leave. Then that somber drive home. What do you think? Axé.
The fairies were the many children old enough to walk but not talk, excited to be out trying to run and jump. Swans were gliding and posing, geese were honking, and wet turtles were in fact jumping, plop! back into the pond. … in Just- spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame … More The park was luscious and filled with swans and fairy-like creatures
