I think every maladaptation I have is an attempt at managing anxiety. It is why I seem so calm — I was raised in the power of people who were delusionally anxious and it was important at all times to discern the actual state of things and remain calm, while also attempting to calm others. … More How Reeducation destroyed research and more
For some reason we are not allowed to count as part of our workload, which is otherwise defined very broadly, etters of recommendation and general advising for graduate school admissions as part of teaching, or of advising, or of service to the profession. Translations done pro bono for Halliburton would be community service, so I … More I woke up this morning and did odd jobs, sought ways to combat anxiety, and read a brilliant comment on rhetoric and race, hallelu hallelujah.
Here is Jonathan Simon’s law blog and it is worth reading. He does work related to what I would do in law, although mine would be comparative, having an Americas wide scope. W.H. Auden’s scorn for social science is amusing as a riposte here but pitiably parochial from my perspective. Axé.
W. H. Auden makes the case for art and against social science, sport, and hygiene I was raised with. I must actually study Thomas’ post, which I have not yet done and which is another matter. I am not a Bohemian but a great bourgeoise. To be a Bohemian like César Vallejo, for instance, you … More On Bohemians
I woke up this morning to gray skies, rain, a desk covered with Christmas cards still not answered, and a car that is having some problems. I was awakened by a nightmare in which repairs were being made inside my house — repairs which are necessary but not urgent, and which it would have been … More 1.1.2013
♦ Bak’tuns and more bak’tuns. This is a Mayan weblog so now we are going on a complete reset. ♦ Dorpat astutely recognizes … that “psychopathology stems from unconscious pathogenic beliefs of the dangers if the patient were to pursue certain important goals.” Standard instructions are to reveal these beliefs so as to set them … More News and Quotations for 13.0.0.0.0
Assistant professors in my college start at $44K, with no contributions made to Social Security. Those who started in 2008 or later have never had raises. This is to teach a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses, 3/3, with 30% of time dedicated to research and the expectation of a book and articles for … More The problem with the classes is money
While I resent the way the French treat the Spanish at my university; while I deny that French Louisiana is all Acadian and that Louisiana is all French; and while I, a skull on a stela at Copán, do not love France in the way I might if I were an upper class postcolonial criollo; … More On French
I now see why I have had these Moustaki song fragments floating through my head all semester: when I was my exchange student’s age I also lived in France, and it was Moustaki songs that floated out of the cafés in the Rue Mouffetard. This song is about the Mediterranean spring and García Lorca would … More Ahora que es primavera
– Housework beyond basic cleaning – Yard maintenance – Painting – Doing own nails – Dyeing own hair – Grocery shopping in the car – Anything involving large shopping centers, parking lots, or big box stores A large, modern or modernized urban studio or loft is the place for me to live, seriously. It could … More Things I dislike and am not good at.
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