For 16 days I have written a page a day. Now I have 16 pages, a full draft, and I am exhausted. I accomplished very little else in this time beyond creating a new, very beautiful page on Facebook. On Facebook, I went and friended a few people I have been hiding from for years, … More J’ai fini
Four out of five sections are finished and I just want to get this manuscript out. To that end I am (a) in a writing binge that could not sustain a book or even a different kind of article, but is good for this; and (b) “just writing,” in the way I understand this (like … More The notes for my piece, updating daily…
This post is a footnote to the Spanish Professor’s excellent discussion of the case of Rebecca Schuman, who has taken a certain amount of abuse lately and of whose situation I am now somewhat better apprised than I have been. I have a few non-Power points to make. 1. Schuman is in German. Do you … More Rebecca Schuman
“Race was the color of the system, but the system was not about race; it was about power.” Then there is this one, with a Miles Davis soundtrack: Axé.
These shoes are the Merrell Evera Shift and they are heels for biking. I do not need them but I have decided I should indulge my shoe obsession at the planning level as much as possible. I am still learning what I can wear, so this is not a fetishism, it is research. One thing … More Le soleil
I wish I still had this bicycle, but I hereby memorialize it, as it was stolen in March. At our institution attendance at graduation is required of students if they wish to receive the degree, and of faculty every term. It is as though the institution insisted on keeping us as captive audience for one … More Summer …
Eric Margolis, one of the people I met by starting an academic Facebook page, has this idea of the ‘hidden curriculum’ which I think applies to my project. I was at one point using this very old idea from Eagleton, cognitive and emotive discourses, but I like the idea of a hidden curriculum better. The … More The hidden curriculum
Now my piece is definitely finished, and I do like it. Of course it could take another form but I like this form, too, and I want to publish this version, not hold it until I have something longer, or more lasting than bronze. I thought I had made a decision but my most recent … More That Quandary
Do you remember that baile de cuna I got waved into, and that jinetero? Well, somebody caught it on film, and here is the evidence. I am the one in black jeans. We do not have enough pictures on this weblog, so we do what we can. This is in a new dancehall that is … More Zarico
This was from Spanish 4, and Student is making sure everyone knows ze can use the imperfect subjunctive correctly. Gracias por ser tan buena maestra. De verdad me ha ayudado. Me gustaría que hubiera más profesores como usted. Nos vemos el próximo semestre. Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 