I have just realized I am by contract expected to work 1800 hours per year. That would be 200 hours per month, over 9 months, or 150, over 12. 150 hours per month is only 35 hours a week. 180 is 45. Taking six weeks of vacation one comes to 40, or more with more … More 1800
“Affective domain” is from Bloom’s Taxonomy, I am sure he got it from some pedagogy workshop or class or training somewhere. You can look it up and talk about what you do in the “cognitive domain” as well as the “affective domain” so that you can document that you’re speaking the language. Has he put … More A resource
My subunit does in fact use adjuncts. The people we hire as adjuncts are people we also hire as FTEs. They teach 5 courses for their FTE, and then 1-2 more as adjuncts. Another department’s chair points out that this amounts to discrimination against my discipline: lower division students in it have to have overworked … More On the adjunct situation
It is possible to live yet better. I need a lot more exercise and a lot more sleep than I actually get, even though I get quite a lot of each. I also a lot more time in nature, a lot more time on the sidewalks, and a lot conviviality and art. In any case, … More Ce matin
It is sunny, once again, and I love the light. I still cannot believe what Reeducation talked me into doing, how destructive it was, and how nobody would believe it. I so wish I had managed to leave the scene of the crime. Not being allowed to leave, of course, is the camp aspect of … More Le soleil, encore
It was the King holiday. On the 1988 King holiday KPFK played all the speeches and I was amazed, not having realized all of what he had said. This year I realized that that had only been the second King holiday. This is holiday 26, and time does pass quickly. ♦ I woke up and … More …stayed on freedom…
That is a picture from our annual cochon-de-lait. I went there, then came home and read fifty pages of literary history. In the morning I woke up again without having to talk myself into facing the day. Someone told me about these motivational tricks, the idea being to keep them in mind when planning teaching. … More Motivational Tricks
→I woke up and did not even have to talk myself into getting up, so I must be improving. I have had good dreams for two days. I still say I threw my life away. However, I am only teaching three classes and they are all interesting. →This blog gathered together some interesting old posts, … More Le samedi
We live in a corporate state and corporatism is always in danger of turning fascist. One of the signs, in my opinion, is what Heidegger called “an atmosphere of incisiveness”, i.e., the idea that we’ve got to “get out there” and “get our teeth into it” and “get the thing done”. Something important is lost … More Thomas
Here is my LASA proposal: Race Beyond Exceptionalism Mestizaje is a key justification of cultural exceptionalism in Latin America. As foundational myth it has often served to limit the analysis of race and racisms, in the social sciences as well as the literary field. Is it possible to consider questions of race, or race and … More The Menu
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