A favor for T: could you get the language evaluation for the Fulbright in sooner, rather than later? Here’s why: there is a possibility B won’t get to his letter. Any encouragement you can offer B, or help editing, would be great but B is going abroad for 10 days on Friday. He has fallen … More It is a normal day and I am begging my colleagues to do their jobs
The entire trip will be reimbursed, so I have to keep every record, which I am not used to. And I insured the flight, which I do not usually do, since that will be reimbursed (or should be). FLIGHT: $361.39 INSURANCE: $21.62 That is so far. Also, I am recycling something, a photocopy of part … More Le voyage à Washington
Who is speaking? Sense and self in Vallejo César Vallejo is considered one of the most important Latin American writers of the twentieth century. Yet with the complexity of his texts, his doubled, branching voices, and the controversies over his editions and manuscript traditions, he became both myth and interpretive battleground before most of his … More ACLA possibility
Well, I think we should put the research opportunities and the community involvement into the specific plan. They won’t work if added as band-aids / for window-dressing: they have to be real. So, things like writing across the curriculum, research opportunities in every course, hiring a person part of whose job would be community engagement, … More Encore qq. ch. que j’ai dit
And I still dislike the Boiceans, and the academic advisers, because they are about conformity. I think I am onto something with this. Everyone knows how to be “productive” and if they aren’t, it is a question of circumstances or techniques, not discipline or character. Academic advice isn’t academic advice–it’s an exhortation to conformity and … More More anti-Boicean-ness
I have discovered that I surf the Internet while working, or instead of working, because working means being on the Internet, and I do not want to be. If I surf, I can just read, but if I work I must check boxes, constantly interact with the machine. It seems like an instrument of torture. … More Internet-free workdays?
New glasses and linens, these are what I want. I shall perhaps buy them in January and June. It is a down comforter I want, and striped towels of Baltic linen. I want at least one, but probably more good lamps, and I want illumination under the kitchen cabinets. But I spend larger slices of … More Things I want and am not buying
I was about to say this was my happiest teaching day ever, but really it is only one of my happiest teaching days, as there were periods with certain circumstances that made most days happy although it seemed normal then and did not stand out. I would like to say the reason is my general … More La felicidad
It is hard to believe that the book I seek is only in 2 libraries worldwide and that software wants me to request the one in England (held, I believe, in a non-circulating section of the library) and not the one in Texas. Another book I seek, costs $100 to buy. If it were less … More Interlibrary loan
I think most of our seniors are not prepared for college. It becomes evident senior year because nowadays, that is the first year in which actual college level work is not only hoped for or expected, but required. I am not sure how to handle all of this, what to do about it, but I … More Frustrating, frustrated, frustration
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