Dread Scott
11/09/2016
This is the artist. This is the work. Here is an excerpt: Axé.
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
La Nueva Orléans apreciable
04/09/2016
An elegant awning. A real neighborhood. Axé.
My usual anti-rushing, anti-timing post
01/09/2016
I have said this before, I know, but it keeps coming true. Every time I try to “make good use of time” the way professors like it — rush, use every pause to get something else done, watch the clock, do things as quickly as possible, keep a strict schedule, and so on — I … More My usual anti-rushing, anti-timing post
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)
Don Quixote
30/08/2016
I have an idea for a course on Spanish literature: books that talk about the book industry. Help me make the syllabus, yes? Meanwhile, everyone should reread the Quixote, for the language. Here is a piece of it. Sucedió, pues, que yendo por una calle alzó los ojos don Quijote y vio escrito sobre una … More Don Quixote
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.
Insight
26/08/2016
At the gym, I was watching television while rowing. On the show, the daughter told her mother, “I am so tired of you always expecting the worst of me!” And I realized that was it. There are so many factors. I love two-year-olds because I was adored at that age as well, but when I … More Insight
A schedule PROBLEM
24/08/2016
Update 2: This schedule, even in its revised version, is punitive and I have been unable to work efficiently since I made it. Why is it not all right to just do as we did in college and graduate school, which was work at school as you would a job? Why are we exhorted to … More A schedule PROBLEM
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