GOOD: The Emeritus Professor, back then. In elementary school when I wrote my first research paper he explained how to plan a project. How much time do you have, weeks to deadline? How long must the paper be, and how short can it be? How much time per day do you have to devote to … More On good and bad mentors
At Dame Eleanor Hull work is being done on two sets of questions. One set is on mentoring: Do you feel you were well-mentored, ill-mentored, or just not mentored? What was the best piece of advice you got from a mentor? Where did one of yours go spectacularly wrong? How are you/would you like to … More Meta-research
As we know, I am in a writing group and committed to do research and ideally, writing daily. I always have a few minutes for this, no matter what, but I want to spend more time than that. I need to, if I am to get anything truly significant accomplished. I also deserve to because … More Public Opinion Poll
So tonight, trying to work with a graduate student on the concept for hir paper, I realized ze had not yet read the primary texts in question. Here I have been e-mailing suggestions for the secondary bibliography and the reason the student keeps wavering on hir stand and focus is that ze has not read … More And I can rest my case!
The point is that if you have any form of rational circumstance, all you have to do is put a bit of time into things and they can then be accomplished. I so, so, so dislike academic advice. Don’t spend time on this, or that, or the other, don’t spend any time time time. But … More …y me cago en la leche
I am recovering from a fit of depressive pique I had over a question of academic identity, really. I see this now having pondered that post by Squadromatico, which is not only about what parts of life one gave up, or what parts of one’s ambitions remain unrealized, but more profoundly about what parts of … More On identity, and on a battle line
Before saying anything truly grave I want to say there is one thing I definitely did not give up for academia and it is that I did not get fat. Seriously: there is this famous colleague I have who gained dozens of pounds eating chocolate during their tenure year, and who says it was worth … More Take Four
This week’s brilliant link from Dame Eleanor Hull. I want to figure out how to implement this and I am stuck on #5 because my teaching assignment varies so much. I could also cut down on service but it is the optional service that keeps me interested and makes things work. During this week, when … More Comment écrire
I go into these crises of fear — “fear of extreme violence,” said a diagnostician — if I do not serve everyone perfectly, or if I thwart someone else’s wishes for the sake of my own survival. Many of those who have seen me in person do not imagine these things because I am so … More Et plus encore
This blog is about how despite sacrifice and penitence I am not as great a sacrificer or penitent as is required, and would like to become less of one and not more. Clarissa Dame Eleanor Hull Squadromatico I was expected to be a housewife and my marriage would have been abusive because that was what … More Popol Vuh
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