Everyone in the writing group is getting more done than I am and seems to have a more stable life than I, and is probably putting more rational time into work as well. I know how it feels to have a slightly better situation and I am half envious but mostly ashamed that we are … More Planctus on my twisted ego
I have to go, I am late, but these are the things I want to discuss: – Astrology for academic job seekers. I am not joking. Location matters a great deal, for instance, although not in the ways people claim. There is a great deal else you can learn from your chart about what to … More Being and Place
I like a calm rhythm and to be getting somewhere, or at least getting the chance to do something right. Do you have this in your job? I have had it in some jobs, but this one is like working on an assembly line that is also an obstacle course where, moreover, the ceiling is … More Is it within your power to make a part of your work day satisfying?
Here is an interesting post, on which I of course have interesting comments. Now the question is, how do these voices get installed in one? I always liked school because it was, precisely, not attempting to install such voices. Some of the academic jobs I have had, or some whitemen in them, have made mighty … More On evil inner voices
I have to talk about this at some point. My good colleague is not wrong and I would love to be in her department. But she is quite a different person from me. I am going off to my Monday meeting of terror, prelude to my Tuesday of horror, after which we will be home … More Lundi
Last night at the football game, where I was because of my exchange student, one of the important guests was a very trailblazing and high achieving alumna, the highlights of whose resumé were read. “Who cares,” chanted the crowd, “Who cares.” This alumna is a Black woman. The chants of “Who cares” turned to boos … More Southern hospitality
In Reeducation, one was not supposed to be able to handle the stress of adult life. To be able to do so was “denial” of how difficult it “must really be” and, more frighteningly, indicated an absence of “feeling”. If one lacked this “feeling” one might have a very severe problem and need very severe treatment. In … More More on Reeducation
It is the topic of this blog, really: I am trying to de-Reeducate myself which means mentor myself, and my education was good but Reeducation was, essentially, bad mentoring. There is this to talk about in my case but it is not all. And yet I am tired of talking. I think I just had … More More on mentoring
1. People keep saying one should not care about money and is vapid if one does, but I think they have what I would consider good academic salaries and benefits, and reasonable support for teaching and research. The amount of time and effort one spends figuring out how to function in the absence of these … More …and, a more condensed discussion of fatuous academic advice and bad academic situations; three things which really irritate me today.
As we know, I was told not to go to graduate school because it would lead to being a professor, which was bad because it was a research job and might be located in a snowy climate. I might have ceased and desisted more easily had I been given better information on the actual disadvantages … More …and again, against fatuous advice: a post for graduate students
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