coldhearted scientist وداد

The foreign graduate students are trying to convince a longtime faculty member not to go home to New Orleans every weekend, as he does. They have told him he is snobbish. He should respect and participate in the fascinating folkloric traditions of our town. Faculty member: I am intimately, ancestrally connected to this area. In … More 50 shades of white, or, still more on that dictum, “Take a job, any job”

“Take a job, any job. If you do not like it, that means you are not a serious scholar and not cut out to be a professor.” But one of my other friends said today, “Nothing negatively affects one’s life more than a job one does not like.” That is a commonly known fact but in academia … More One more post about how professors are assholes…and also inexperienced, immature, and supercilious jerks

So today I was in Maringouin because I had a dentist’s appointment, although I wanted to be elsewhere. Duty to the appointment, duty. I was tired from driving and slept too long, almost to the time of the appointment, such that I went there without having had coffee and without having done some important errands … More What I appear to be trying to get over