1. Now it is summer. I am still trying to relearn the self-care I renounced for Reeducation. I am trying to do this every day. I am also noticing how much more relaxing reading is than watching film, and how much more restful actual books are than anything one can read on a device. 2. Self-care … More L’été, ou l’appétit vient en mangeant
It has been beautiful. The Atchafalaya River has green trees in blue water, Lake Pontchartrain is piercing blue, and the weather has been so good, most days–dry sunlight and water. #OccupyHE Axé.
So I am ready, and going en ville, and I am awake. Maringouin feels tomblike and I feel apologetic about noticing this. So many desire it and cannot wait to get home. I, too, am grateful for it after visiting yet more desolate places but the fact remains that for me, arrival here is like … More Et asteur
Am I interested in what I am doing, or not? I needed this as a starter job. Raised with the idea that I would be incompetent for everything, including jobs like receptionist and shop girl, I chose something I definitely knew I could do. My idea was that if I could make tenure at a good … More Est-ce que je suis intéressée?
Now we are trying to Occupy every day, do things and enjoy them. My friend with a harder life, ostensibly, has an easier time with this as his goal is and always has been to teach foreign languages. That is what he likes. I, on the other hand, am gripped with nostalgia. I would have … More Le programme
It has come to my attention that if I were living in a state that paid into Social Security, and I continued to make what I am now, and I retired at age 67, I would draw about $2,000 per month in Social Security for life. Since Social Security taxes are not taken out of … More Advice to new faculty, item 99
This is what the academic advisors say, boiled down: (1) rush yourself, (2) sacrifice everything, and (3) conduct large amounts of conventional research that will affirm the status quo. This is the only way to evade execution. It is that threatening atmosphere, prison and sacrifice, and the gag rule, do not publish research, but only … More The cautiousness
Now we are beginning to Occupy these bayous, filling the atmosphere with our own, expanding, ignoring the forces that pull us down, honing our own strengths. #OccupyHE Axé.
Now I think I have demolished both academic advice and Reeducation with that phrase, “pessimistically driven.” I might better use this weblog as an affirmation of an alternative rather than a defense against these forces. That is how it was originally conceived. I am so accustomed to the experience of this town and university as … More Sitting in expertise
“Pessimistically driven,” someone said. That is why I do not like academic advice: it assumes life is terrible and you are incompetent and lazy, so you must be kept on the straight and narrow and hurried along … and disabused of all interest in creativity or pleasure. The advice is correct insofar as it is … More Pessimistically driven
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