This is for the people who got letters denying tenure this semester, or terminating them at third or fourth year review. For grant proposals not funded, and especially for labs that lost their grants. It is for the Louisiana Federation of Teachers, brilliantly organized, and the Oregon teachers out on strike tonight. Axé.
We have had the Devil to pay lately, here in Maringouin. We have lost some people and a program. The above song sings to the 1964-84 Brazilian dictatorship that in spite of it, tomorrow is another day. And in life generally, we had so much advice on how to get things done. I, however, have … More The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
My professors had no idea how to work anywhere but an R1. By the time I got the Ph.D I had taken courses at five universities, but they were all R1 so that was the world I knew. The standard advice for professors is about how to work at an R1 and I am constantly … More Toda la vida
I am not a full professor at an R-1 but I am beginning to realize that for a series of reasons having to do with the kinds of experience I have had, I am one of the savviest people there are. I was born savvy and trained that way, and when you add to that … More Yet further advice
Dear Administration, Everything you have heard about me, namely that I am a devil from the University of California, is true. That sturdy Golden Bear, whose football games I disdained back in the day, watches me from the sky even now. If you give me the faculty I want from this campus, I can recruit … More California forever.
The ERA. Axé.
This is my least favorite sentence in the Louisiana vernacular. It means we went to dinner and when college graduates say it, it means they went to a fine restaurant. It sounds like baby talk. «We went go eat» indeed. Axé.
Clarissa: “More maturity to have a child than to have an abortion” is my favorite statement of the week. The stupidity of these people is daunting. I actually meant less maturity — you need less maturity to have a child than to have an abortion, which is why if you are underage a judge needs … More Hazel-Eyed Girl
You do not know how many of our brilliant proposals have been turned down this week, for reasons having to do with unrelieved ignorance. You do not know that my student’s husband is a waiter. You do not know that the technology for our class has broken down. You do not know that the way … More Things you do not know about me, or about the rechingada madre of someone you know, that is to say, a puta que pariu.
I do not have time to fiddle with Blogger so as to be able to comment on Shedding Khawatir‘s post, so I have to post about it. I am not interested in language teaching the way she is, but I have had the same problems about it. Shedding Khawatir complains of the professors and lecturers … More On language teaching
