Addendum, Part A: I regularly get people into good PhD programs in my field and many of them, as well as those whose dissertations I directed or was on, now hold good jobs and high ranks. My advising question, below and now in red, has to do with the social sciences. I am still soliciting … More Further Anti-Advice to New Faculty, and an Advising Question, Revised
I had written about three more paragraphs of vitriol, about my irritation with entitled beings, but I erased them inadvertently and cannot reconstruct. I feel horrible because of teaching 5 classes and doing other work too, it is grueling, and I do not have good habits at this time (as in, always going to the … More 937
So glad to have known you. We will see you again. Mass is Monday, September 12 at 11 a.m. at Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 2022 Saint Bernard Avenue. Axé.
This is an Alan Lomax recording. The picture is apparently from the 50s but that is exactly how the men at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola look walking out to work each morning, today. I am trying to decide what records I will send to the people far away who helped with my bibliography. … More Go Down Old Hannah
Axé.
The other reason I resent all the advisors who preach about how you should do a poor job teaching is that well known professors gave very responsible courses, that I took as an undergraduate, at one of the premier research institutions in the world. They had good materials, they prepared interesting essay questions, they did … More Vitriol, Part x(n)
I do not know how many times I have given advice to new faculty, or been given advice, so I have numbered this with a series of functions and variables. I am rebelling by giving anti-advice, as there are so many faculty proffering the kind of advice one gets in graduate school. I dislike re-hearing … More Advice to New Faculty, Version (f)xne
Storm Update: T.S. Lee broke through my roof and destroyed part of the interior, where I had finally been able to have damage from the 2008 Hurricanes Gustav and Ike repaired. Before Katrina all these things were covered by homeowner’s insurance, but that is no longer the case. Roofers are coming tomorrow morning, Labor Day. … More Moi de Morón
Tropical Storm Lee is coming on in, and you can feel it. Hurricane Katia is in the Atlantic, but we have had hurricanes in October several times. In 2008 I lost the same piece of my roof twice, to Gustav and then to Ike. Update 1: And it’s here, and a state of emergency has … More T.S. Lee / Ezra Pound
I last saw my cat, an important personage, exactly six months ago. I had named him Krishna. Earlier he had been called Melody, then Mel when he turned out to be a boy. I do not know what his name is now. Axé.
