Jueves será, porque hoy, jueves, que proso estos versos, los húmeros me he puesto a la mala… I am not counting any of the attempts at work I did last night as work time because I was too tired and incoherent, so yesterday had 6 hours. I think I might be getting sick, horrors. Thursday … More Lo que va de jueves
“La representación literaria del incesto se liga íntimamente con la realidad histórica del mestizaje en Cuba. En una sociedad esclavista colonial la estratificación racial aseguraba la sobrevivencia de una minoría a base de categorías raciales exclusivas. En algún momento había que reprimir el concubinato racial para restaurar el patriarcado. La mera existencia de una clase … More Research question du jour
9-9:30 e-mail 11:30 – 4:30 technical issues, more e-mail and website updating, office and file reorganization, student paper reorganizing, book finding and returning, Skype Clarissa. Most of this involved teaching, and there was a little service and a little research. There was also a 30 minute break. This means 5 hours of inefficient work so … More Working Wednesday
9-6 grade, prepare, teach, with 2 15 minute coffee breaks and 1 30 minute lunch break, total 8 hours. Commentary: if I put more thought into preparing the reading class, it would be more lively and people would learn more; the culture class is perfect but that is because these are things I know about … More Work tracking Tuesday
In a week I spend much less time working than I had thought, because a great deal of the work I do — work that blends somehow into university work — is actually on house and family. And almost all my work at work goes to teaching. I had thought the drain from research time … More Work tracking, day 7
He is mysterious because the books he has in WorldCat are not the same as those for sale on Amazon. I have never found as high a discrepancy between these two listings before; the lists hardly overlap and this is making me really wonder about WorldCat. The MLA Bibliography is yet again different. Then I … More Joan Ramón Resina
For quite some time, unknown to most of the general public and even many doctors, researchers have used a variety of methods to test the serotonin (and other neurotransmitter) imbalance theory of depression. Research methods included comparing serotonin metabolites in depressed and nondepressed people, and depleting serotonin levels through a variety of means and then … More On why it is important to know people who are intellectually oriented and can evaluate research
Continuous history is the indispensable correlative of the founding function of the subject: the guarantee that everything has eluded him may be restored him; the certainty that time will disperse nothing without restoring it in a reconstituted unity; the promise that one day the subject — in the form of historical consciousness — will once … More Michel Foucault
…and language is a set of grammar rules, and culture is a museum. These things are not true but I would have better teaching evaluations from both students and other faculty if I lived by them. I would allegedly run through my lecture and go back to the office and keep writing, and everything would … More “Christians are right, and pagans are wrong”
I had a conversation last night with a friend from undergraduate days, who transferred from an Ivy League school to save money and had a hard time because the University of California was so much more demanding academically. He did not get into a strong M.S. program or any Ph.D. program. Him: How are you? … More The arrogant general public
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