I must renew my passport
23/01/2017
I will not post until it is done. I must also paint some of the outside of the house. These are the kinds of things I keep putting off and I really must not. Axé.
Category: Working
I appear to stand alone
20/12/2016
It appears that only I think everyone should be on a tenure line. I understand the need for “flexible” faculty given shifting enrollments but I say that if you need someone clearly enough that you rehire them for longer than three years, you need them and should offer them a tenure track position. Pieces and … More I appear to stand alone
Slowly and with lots of sleep
13/12/2016
I am now able to do some work I had thought impossible because I got lots of sleep and I am working slowly–or, at the speed I need to work. The reason I have always wanted to leave academia is that we are supposed to work very quickly, do a poor job (anything else is … More Slowly and with lots of sleep
Notes on language and power
11/12/2016
This is important for my languishing article. It is hard to manage because it is about language, but wants to be about neoliberalism and educational policy. If I keep remembering it is about language, I may be able to finish it. Axé.
Synopsis of Postman, “The end of education”
21/09/2016
The “school problem” has two dimensions, as he sees it. One is the engineering aspect: the means by which young people acquire an education. The other is the metaphysical aspect: the underlying purpose or mission — the “end” — of education. Postman believes that the debate over the future of America’s schools focuses too much … More Synopsis of Postman, “The end of education”
The week, the week
11/09/2016
Syllabus revisions, website revisions, e-gradebook grading, grading in general, course planning, and maintenance of gradebooks are now constant. Tuesday write on site is a constant. Two bureaucratic documents are left to be done, and more regular writing on That Article needs to be done. There is now also a bureaucratic question to be asked, and … More The week, the week
On speaking up
10/09/2016
Someone said: I am glad you spoke up; I hope you get support; I wish I were forthright like you. It felt right. I had been feeling nervous about having spoken up and was trying to talk myself into learning never to speak up again. But that sentence: I am glad you spoke up, I … More On speaking up
Si j’avais l’argent
10/09/2016
Although it is a question of time, as well. If I am going to LASA in Lima, then another event in Tampa and another in Washington, and if I am to go to California and Minnesota as well, do I have time to do this in a way that would actually benefit me? I already … More Si j’avais l’argent
Allons voir comment je vais y aller — updated (yet more) (and more)
31/08/2016
Le plan: What is left: 316 syllabus TWEAK and tweak Moodle site, 202 syllabus TWEAK and both of its websites, arborist, door-maker, Gary, vita, two bureaucratic documents (teaching and administration), student papers. New next week: 462 lecture Monday, contact LASA people Monday, restart article writing Tuesday, continue article, LASA, LHA Wednesday, Thursday, Friday…and weekend, all the way up … More Allons voir comment je vais y aller — updated (yet more) (and more)
Des mots, ou les mots et les idées
29/08/2016
I am reading translation theory for class and catching my breath. These were my original research questions, when I was a child. The reasons I studied the things I did. Not the relationship between words and things, but words and thoughts, and the way in which language produces or conditions perception. Axé.
