This is St. John’s Day and I’d like to have been in Recife seeing the quadrilles and dancing forró, or at a bonfire far enough north to see the northern lights. Next year I should actually go to a beach on St. John’s Eve and have the Danish celebration. I am glad Clarissa reminded me … More San Juan
J’ai parti dedans la porte d’en arrière is how you say it, and this video of D.L. Ménard singing his famous song shows it. I like Louisiana French, with its strange grammars and borrowings. I feel foreign because unlike the other people in Spanish, my main department, and English, my other one, I study a … More D. L. Ménard, Alice Fulton
“‘Wait for better times.’ That’s what the slaves always hear. ‘This is only temporary….‘” Part of the problem does seem to be that Gloria Steinem and others got as moderate as they needed to to still be seen as “reasonable,” and ended up saying nothing. “Wait for better times” is also precisely what my most … More A Good Point
I was fascinated with the book Working It Out not because it discussed womens’ right to work but to have a work. This is what was missing from my academic training. I learned very well how to do the work and how to work, and how to produce work, but I did not learn that … More On Having a Work
I would rather be running Linux and using LaTex, and I would like it if Open Office worked better for me than it does. But I am running Windows 7 and XP, and I am unlikely to be in a position to change this in the near future. In the university we have Microsoft Word, … More WordPerfect
NEWS 1. Of interest – post du jour: In which a great-aunt in Calcutta’s traditional values are shocked by the self-righteous logic of “have conceived, will ruin a future life by having the child and giving it to strangers:” She thinks the “villianisation” of abortion in a “dangerously over-populated” world is crazy, self obsessed, morally … More Notes From My Oven
The LSAT differs from the GRE and other standardized tests I have taken in that the question is what is the flaw in the argument, not what is the point of the paragraph. This is difficult because the questions are written to be deceptive. That means you have to read very closely and my training … More Pasodoble
In General Relaxing evenings, getting up early, time in the gym and at the pool, some sort of nature time maybe, except that I will not try to pretend I enjoy Louisiana nature if I do not. I will not force anything but I do want to see natural water every and I remind myself … More My Summer-to-Fall Plan
1. As the astute reader knows, I have this blog because I do not have an analyst. I spend a great amount of time writing myself through emotional pain, pain I might not suffer if I simply changed my life, but which I must get control of in order to be able to change my … More Progress
I always did like Alberto Moreiras; I like this article and the journal it is in; thanks, SpanishProf, for this and much else. Highlights: …los efectos del mobbing son muy similares a los del síndrome de estrés postraumático: ansiedad, insomnio, obsesión, dificultades en el trabajo, y una pena profunda que se hace indescriptible e injustificable … More On Poison at Work
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