You deserve to put research first and also to recognize and honor the conditions you need to have in order to do so. I took these ideas for granted until I became a professor, after which they were eroded — in part by other professors who alleged one should be able to work in any … More Encore un petit poème
I think the reason women say they need big blocks of time to get work done in is not that they do not know how to work efficiently. As I keep saying, anyone who got a PhD and a job does know how to work efficiently. Where the front time goes, the first half of … More Those big blocks of time
It does in fact take a great deal of total time, more if you do not do it every day because then time also has to go into remembering where you left off. That means you have to have peace of mind and some degree of physical comfort, and you cannot allow yourself to be … More On research
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Now the sun moves into Leo, and there is still another month before classes start. That means another month to do my summer things: research and writing, swimming and yoga, house and yardwork, all in a rhythm. My goal for this year is to be self contained. The banes of my existence are early undergraduate … More Nouvelle saison
The issue, we decided last night, was finding a technology whereby to make life in Maringouin consistently bearable enough so as to be able to consistently work. The problem is the amount of energy that goes toward making things bearable, and the fact that efforts in this regard do not produce a reliable enough result. … More Ce que je ferai / White Rabbit
This comment on the Christian fundamentalist idea of generational curses and what to do about them explains yet another undiscovered piece of the strange and highly destructive psychotherapy I went through. The therapist, as I eventually discovered and comprehended, was a true believer in ACOA, Al-Anon, and other 12 step theories according to which, if … More On generational curses
The current form of maternal martyr, I discern, is not the one I remember from childhood but is, nonetheless, an interesting inversion of this one. The form of maternal martyrdom I remember was undertaken by those mothers who had renounced everything to be at home with children. They were legion and they were known to … More Maternal martyrs of the 21st century
What I notice is that you have to put more, not less time into everything. I do not mean larger blocs of time, of course, although that is fine too. What I mean is, more total time into everything that matters. That means less into what doesn’t, of course, but it does not mean starving … More Time Time Time
Glissant’s book also has much more in it on the psychology of domination than I had realized, and is in general much more thoroughgoing and serious than it had ever seemed to me the various times I had tried to work with it in a rushed way (the academic way). I am reading slowly which … More Lentitude
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