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
Bien, it is about 10:30 and it will be 10:40 by the time I finish writing this post. I have dealt with e-mail and website issues for about an hour this morning; where the rest of the time has gone has been to preparing the situation for the famula (Arg.) or asistenta to come in. … More More work-tracking!
I came up with that title for a possible paper long ago and I am looking for the abstract which I know I have. Here is a psychoanalytic-style paper on part of the problematic. Our hero’s separation from the beloved is his Oedipal moment and the whole landscape is suffused with pre-Oedipal desire. I would … More “Gendered Mirrors and Racial Difference…”
So far today I have done the following: 8:45 e-mail 9:00-10:45 prepare one class (efficiency high, but this was not quite enough time, as it turned out) 11:00-12:15 teach said class 12:15-1:00 office hours, during which I met with a colleague and a student to create a new outreach program and also worked on an … More Tracking work, again
I do not know how I came upon this piece as I was doing something else but it appears that orphanhood is what generates the novel. Vallejo, as we know, kept saying he was an orphan and I do not have a lot of patience with complaints from persons orphaned as adults, or with persons … More On Vallejo, Heidegger, and my other project
This post follows the discussion on competition and I came up with it as I tried to figure out how to reorganize my files so as to work better, and considered programs like Scrivener. I saw that Scrivener is a wiki, which is why I find it attractive; it has a sidebar that you can … More You and your career as a wiki
My problem is not that I am not using Scrivener, or that half my files are in the Ubuntu cloud and the other half in Dropbox. My problem is that I am acting in it the way I have been taught to act by Reeducation, of which one part is daily life at my current … More How to organize my manuscript
I woke up this morning thinking of a friend I made in college. We were friendly in classes but became friends one day when we coincided at the pool and fell into conversation about other things. That was so long ago. It was when university gyms still issued their faded swimsuits. Really skilful women could … More Hoy es domingo, y por eso
1. I was always warned in graduate school that if I got an academic job I would not get to teach foreign languages because the T.A.’s would do it, and also that I should not construct myself as someone who likes it, anyway, because to get a tenure track job you had to construct yourself … More On militant Hispanism
I used to give the culture class as an issues-in-culture class and it was good, but now I am giving it as a true cultural studies class and it is outright exciting, partly because it is so theoretically precise. Here is the issue: I have a curriculum. The administration now says that since it is … More On disciplines
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