Thank you for all of your instruction and guidance in my education and my post graduation plans. While your classes at first intimidated me, the challenges they present have become a pleasure, and in the end, I find they have been defining of my time at Vichy State. Your attitude and expectations have always encouraged … More La psychanalyse du vendredi
Verbal distinctions should be valued, since they stand for mental – intellectual – distinctions. Yet one feels it is somehow a pity that the word “poet” should have been split asunder. For nowadays when we speak of a poet, we think only of the utterer of such lyric, birdlike notes as “With ships the sea … More The Telling of the Tale
Las ilusiones del patriotismo no tienen término. En el primer siglo de nuestra era, Plutarco se burló de quienes declaran que la luna de Atenas es mejor que la luna de Corinto; Milton, en el siglo XVII notó que Dios tenía la costumbre de revelarse primero a Sus ingleses; Fitche, a principios del siglo XIX, … More Nuestro pobre individualismo
[T]he protagonist was guilty of several things, and so was her mother. However, instead of owning up to their guilt in specific matters and attempting restitution they adopted guilt as a character trait, having insufficient self knowledge to deal in a rational way with the consequences of their actions. This is really worth considering. Axé.
When I was in high school I had a mild eating disorder but I could not maintain it in college. I worried about it though, thought I should get it back, felt that without it I was falling down on my job in some way. In graduate school I became yet more concerned about not … More Le café
It is possible to live yet better, in my case largely by not staying up so late and going running more regularly. Yesterday, though, I planted trees along the Bayou Teche and went swimming. The ride along the levee was beautiful. Then I looked I at my citation statistics for annual review and realized that … More Sunday meditation…
Periodically I have a flash of insight on why the students say I am not like the other professors, why I only seem to feel kinship with a minority of them, and why standard academic advice seems not to speak to me (and even feels like a violation). These things are interrelated; here are some … More On Types
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
It is soon, and I do not have time to write it, but I must do it right, and it is designed as a way to start in on my LASA paper. I think I will use my ERIP paper and write a cover letter for it, essentially, that moves it ahead. What I am … More The next paper
…to request a resolution about on campus interviews. We need to be able to invite more than one person at a time. Now, we are allowed one, and if we do not like them enough to hire we have to go through a long process to request the visit of a second candidate. That is … More Remind me
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