I am so depressed already and it is only the end of the first week. Real teaching hasn’t started yet, even. It is the basic language classes that do it. I barely began to recover from these over the summer and it is all starting again. I the angel of death appeared I would say … More J’ai peur
Fernando Coronil, a wonderful person I would have liked to see more of in this lifetime, awaits us now over Jordan, as it is said. Axé, Fernando. Laurent Dubois writes: His favorite place to write was in a hammock, either the one suspended in his office or the one on his front porch, with his … More Fernando Coronil
I think Mayhew and Kelsky should weigh in on this. My vote is no, no, a thousand times no, but I am failing to convince. Perhaps I am wrong. Background: We have a few older, very accomplished, full professors who, long ago, were undergraduates here. They went away to graduate school and eventually made their … More Should I Do A Foreign Ph.D.?
FUCKE, as he would say. I just left a comment on another blog while signed in to my university e-mail account, and said comment inadvertently made it clear who the author of this blog is. FUCKE. It doesn’t matter since my ex chair, my ex dean, my ex man and various other people know my … More Comrade Physioproffe
This is what privilege looks like: activities and attitudes that would get you serious jail time and massive disapproval if undertaken and evinced by members of the lower classes. Axé.
This post is dedicated to Stupid Motivational Tricks, because that is a site about Getting It Done. The bottom line regarding life today is, I need a handyman but cannot get one because, they all say so far, the job I want them for is too small. I have guests coming this weekend and little … More Frustration
Watch and learn. Axé.
School is starting soon, and we must away. Can you ever say farewell to the Faroes? Axé.
No matter how well others may do it, or how much they may save thereby, I should never paint, stain, or dye anything in a house. Whenever I do, even if I do it right, I make an error that cannot be repaired by me and that will cost more to have repaired than it … More False Economies
From New York magazine: According to a report by the French magazine L’Express, Mansouret recently revealed to the special prosecutor investigating Tristane’s case that she had a very real, very messy reason for advising her daughter as she did: her own sexual past with DSK. Mansouret told the prosecutor that she had a single, violent … More Anne Mansouret
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