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.
I was thinking of the beautiful light, the January sky, the clear winter days when you can have the windows open. I was thinking of some people I know who do not converse. People for whom every conversation is a battle, and whose sentences are pre-emptive strikes against an imagined enemy. How they defend unhappiness … More Ce matin
1/ Here is a good post on the Schuman-Potter argument. 2.1/ A low-level tenured person who feels in some ways like a contingent person trying to get a job and wondering if they can stay in the alleged “profession” (not everyone calls it that), I always wake up at first light, even if I then … More What I was thinking this morning
I like to get up and start writing down the interesting thoughts I have during the night, but this seems to depend upon being back home, or somewhere homelike. Here I like to see the light break but I am then always struggling against anxiety, pain, grief, how did I get here, how can I … More Le jour se lève
A friend writes, out of the blue: When you were younger you maybe didn’t need to adjust to being in the 99th+ percentile of IQ because you had genuine peers around you who were also smart. It’s tougher now because you don’t have the same access to smart people that you used to have. I … More Further reasons why it is not “the best profession in the world”
What I said to Bérubé: If it is unfair to ask people to spend $1200 to get to a 20-minute interview, and we are against elitism, then perhaps it is also unfair to ask people to spend $1200 in hopes of catching an editor’s attention. How do we make everything truly fair? How do we … More About conference interviews
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