Schedule today: 8 AM Remove Vitter posters from building and environs 9 AM Grade, prepare, plan 10AM Teach 11 AM Teach 12 N Teach 1 PM Eat Lunch and Write This Post 1:30 PM Grade, prepare 2 PM Teach 3:30 PM Meeting 4 PM Meeting 5 PM Meeting 6 PM Walk 7 PM Eat Dinner … More Now Working!
In case the legislature thinks you are not working and needs to know what lazy professors do all day long, let me tell you about my flexibly scheduled day so far. This is after working 6-1 and 2-9 yesterday, 14 total hours with a one hour lunch break on which I both ate and went … More Flexible
For Portuguese next semester or next time, another thing we could do is study the history of Brazilian song. That would be enough content to keep me interested, and enough short reading and audio to help the students develop their language. Teaching foreign languages is terribly tedious but it is not true that the answer … More On Preparing Class
Among Christians, the code employed to express strong disapproval is, “Why would you…?” As in, “Why would you want to discuss an ugly thing like slavery in a class at a university?” So my student gave a presentation on the Brazilian narco-slums and police repression and simultaneous collaboration or even leadership in the narco-gangs, which … More On Christians
In case anyone needs my help to prove we are working, I have been up since five. I graded for Spanish and updated websites from six to ten this morning, after which I taught various Spanish courses for three hours. Then I ate lunch, wickedly spending $8, and went to the bookstore to finally buy … More Midday Report
All my students need to be stellar is a good Berkeley T.A. I am one such except that I have lost a key property of the official T.A. from back in the day: we were responsible for only 17-34 students, and we were paid for 20 hours which were dedicated to those particular students. Since … More Needed
Now everyone knows why I am bored with advice to graduate students and junior faculty: I was born knowing some of it, and I got more information on how to work from crack Asian graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty on sabbatical, all in scientific and technical fields, freshman year. I also learned important slacking … More On Slacking
The other thing about working is that if you have the luxury of considering not working out, then you do not have a hard job and you cannot complain, or ask me to devote not only part of my research time but also part of my recreational blog to proving that what you do is … More On Working Out
It appears that many people have more flexible schedules than I do, so I am going to leave it to them to protest on the steps of their respective state capitol buildings to point out that what we do is work. One of the reasons I have a less flexible schedule than some of you … More Transgressive Talent
When was the idea that research was so hard for people with Ph.D.s invented? (I do note that in the mythology, it appears that research is only hard after you get the degree — before that, it is expected. This is symptomatic of the mythical nature of the idea that research is hard, I think.) … More An Idea
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