A book I used used long ago in Spanish 202 is now being used in Spanish 431. It could mean that the quality of our language program has decreased sharply, or that this faculty member is not very demanding. It explains why the students found my Spanish 432 so difficult last year, though. What book … More Too hot for Facebook
I woke up noticing that a large part of the anxiety and precarity is financial. I should do yoga and meditate so that I recognize this when it comes up and set it aside. How to increase income: promotion. The rest of it is the self-care issue which is really the self-love issue, as we … More Dimanche matin
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So I am over it, again. It might be the mild weather coming in. It is not the work that is dull, even if it is not the only work that could be done. It is the oppressiveness of the institutions and the desolation of the towns that make it so difficult to engage: how … More After the Polar Vortex
This is the new computer. I am upset because I think I might have already destroyed its optical drive. I destroy things inadvertently due to anxiety, so this is possible, but as Undine would say, if it is destroyed, it can be repaired. I just don’t like doing violence to things, especially inadvertently. It is … More Mélancholique
So, as I have announced elsewhere, my key word for 2014 is power, remembering that one does in fact have power. In Reeducation we were to be powerless, to succumb to the effects of our worst experiences, and to disbelieve our own perceptions because we were, it was alleged, born with permanent defects that meant … More Dolce anno nuovo
The reason I am this irritated, of course, is that California is this beautiful and I am in exile. In any case, it turns out that before becoming a teacher in California my grandmother was one in Washington, Oregon, and before that, Utah, all in the first years of the twentieth century. In Utah she … More On Utah
I have escaped to California until further notice. Rural Louisiana is entirely too hard to take but check this out: I wrote an entire book review on the plane, because the world of reason begins (people do not understand this, but they just do not know) at the Texas state line. All bets are off … More La belle vie
This is so not my job and I would so like to do other things, but I am required to teach at this level and I have decided that the only way to make it non-draining is to put serious effort into it. That goes against all standard academic advice — especially since the memos … More Advice for my department
Some things learned and decided about teaching this semester, lower division: 1. We need minute essays in the language courses — lower division courses. 2. We need reading and music and film and culture in these courses, and not canned culture, either. Without these things the courses are not interesting and also, the students do … More Some things learned and decided…
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