I am sorry, everyone, but preparing class is one of the best things you can do and it saves time. I’ve often tried not to, being told that every minute spent on it is a minute I could be writing, but it is so exhausting and it takes so much energy to just walk on … More Against the party line.
Dear Department Chair, It is true what you say, that I believe my opinion on this matter is more valid, and should hold more weight than your sidekick’s. The reason for this, however, is not that I have more degrees and a higher rank than does your sidekick. The reason is that I read book … More Practicing for next year.
I have had trouble been mostly unhappy in academia ever since finishing the Ph.D and there are reasons for this having to do with my background, principally having been taught that I was not worthy and also that I should not be enjoying this. Because of these lessons everything I do is fraught with guilt, … More I am not a normal professor.
So it is Easter again, time to rise again, and so I shall. This is Oludumare, breathing peace into us after a terrible week. My week was terrible because of religiosity and machismo. It began on the wrong note, as I went to church on Palm Sunday because a colleague was singing. One likes to … More Olodumare, or Easter of Self-Respect
In the brave new world we inhabit I do not allow graduate students to simply make their research presentation toward the end of the term. If I did, I would get the quality of presentation I now call a “first presentation.” Some comments on one were like this: Professor Zero: …although the “negative” poem is … More On analytical powers
This is arguably my best find ever in the archives of YouTube. Axé.
I am of course tired of writing about academic advice and about Reeducation. I feel I have said everything I could say, and that anything new I could say would take time to write that I would rather use for almost anything else – academic work, housework, recreation. My perception for the week, though, is … More Sondé miroir
Axé.
More on the Dominican theme. I don’t remember the US backed coup of 1963, but I do remember the US backed invasion of 1965, when we were also putting Mobutu Sese Seko into the Congo and escalating in Viet Nam. I cannot believe people witnessed these things, yet did not understand the drumbeat that led … More Juan Bosch
Until very recently the administrative staff alleged we were Luddites and technophobes. We were using too much chalk and not enough computers. Now they are clucking that we “have become dependent on technology.” Axé.
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