Foods I have eaten since arriving in New Orleans are: – seafood gumbo – shrimp remoulade – trout with crabmeat Foods remaining to be eaten are: – sausage and rabbit jambalaya – seafood omelette po-boy – shrimp grillade If you are perceptive, you will see the Spanishness of all this. Axé.
I really will have to write my manual since I have so much to say. The question on advice is, what are the motives of the advisor? 1/ Sharing, and money. They are willing to sell expertise. Fair enough. 2/ Things people wish they had known: they wish to share experience and views. Of interest. … More Categories of academic advice
One of the results of adjunctification is that undergraduates meet few professors, if any, and many are officially advised by academic staff and who have not been faculty. As a result of this they have to pay for coaching on how to get into graduate school and things like that; there are services like The … More On adjunctification, coaches and consultants
I have to work on my NEH Letter of Intent this week. I am saying this because when I shut this computer down I will have to close the document, I am likely to forget about it. I have to remember IILI and LASA deadlines as well. Here is a lesson in logic by the … More La semaine
Time time time: to some extent it is true, one is as harried as one wants to be. My overwhelmed friend teaches community college, 15 hours of class a week, 3 courses 5 days a week, plus meetings, office hours, planning, grading, and the exhaustion of working in a turbulent institution. That is of course plenty … More Fugue states
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 have solved my manuscript problem and the solution is very powerful. I am brilliant. This is why people fear me — I can get things done. I have also gotten someone into graduate school this week, fully funded, no mean feat from here, so I am jumping, running, winning. I have remembered another technique … More Machiavellian
I want to apply for an NEH Summer Stipend for 2014. I can argue that my project fits into their Bridging Cultures program, and all. It has a funding ratio of 8% and that is from among people who are actually allowed to apply, after applying to apply. Our university can nominate two people. In the … More This is the sort of thing
I am too tired to have the prose come to me easily, but the recollections and connections do not stop coming to me. If I keep working on this text it will become a substantial piece. Venues for it besides the CHE could be Academe, IHE, Baton Rouge Advocate, maybe Profession. I am convinced these things … More Notes for still further revision
As we know, I am against free writing. I favor recreational or nonacademic writing, not free writing, for practice, and research notes and abstracts, not rambling “prewriting” to gather my thoughts. I became aware of free writing as a requirement too late, and I have never learned to use it — I find it exhausting … More On the origins of the “free writing” cult
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