I am looking up a branch of the family. At the level of our parents, many were born in the teens and twenties and that, in Denmark and the Faroes, was long ago — or so it seems to me; society has changed so very greatly there. Håkon Brinch, our grandfather the doctor, was born … More In which the past is more past than it once was
Mere om Norden — cruising among the islands of the North Atlantic, by the Arctic line … Here we sail from Iceland to the Faroes and beyond … Finally, I really liked this film although I understand the criticisms in the reviews. I like modern Icelandic very much and I think Iceland, which I have … More Cold Light
So at one of the receptions I ran into a heavy researcher who asked me about a teaching project and said my ideas on teaching are right. Do you see? I am not actually crazy. #OccupyHE Axé.
I must get this book for the footnotes to its introduction, and for general purposes. I also need Alcée Fortier’s history of Louisiana for what it may say about plaçage. It seems that the term itself comes from 20th century Haiti and as it was retroactively applied to New Orleans, referred to a different (and … More Creole Echoes, Alcée Fortier
“I’m so glad I’m fighting for my rights, singing glory Hallelujah, I’m so glad.” #OccupyHE Axé.
When I was a new assistant professor, starting the first day and lasting until Reeducation, I had an amount and kind of teaching and service that professors at R1 institutions do not dream of and especially, do not dream of not having the option of saying no to. I, as a student from such an … More How to get a lot written at a teaching and service oriented institution
Perhaps I do in fact merely have simple, Comparative Literature 1A-style writing problems. I never believed it before, my writing strategies were different, but at present I now believe in writing bad first drafts. #OccupyHE Axé.
“You have to stand up for yourself,” I was told. I agree but I also say I am not even sure what that would be. When I “don’t stand up for myself” I think that what I am doing is being polite and fair and realizing I may have faults. Also, when I have stood … More Notes for this paper
And if I were in Mexico or en ville, I would surely not merely be hoping to see my first Amat Escalante film, but seeing his latest, coming at the current film from a different direction. ♦ The tone of standard academic advice is all about discipline and limitation, as well as “self-protection.” It is … More Amat Escalante
Like the people who have to want to stop drinking and must make the decision themselves, or the people I know now who are going to have to decide, themselves, to learn to use certain software (or not), I feel I must decide to want to improve my experience at and of work. I always … More You have to want…
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