It is possible to live yet better, in my case largely by not staying up so late and going running more regularly. Yesterday, though, I planted trees along the Bayou Teche and went swimming. The ride along the levee was beautiful. Then I looked I at my citation statistics for annual review and realized that … More Sunday meditation…
At last I understand academic advice: it is not advice at all, it is a speech act undertaken to police the norms of academia. This phrase was invented by one of my reader-friends, who noticed that the Tenured Radical was upset today with Sarah Kendzior for speaking clearly, and not in the terribly indirect way … More On “policing the norms of academia”
It was the evenness that they did not like, that seemed like an affront. They believed in suffering and relief. (I always feel I must go somewhere I feel I cannot be found if I want to enact that apparently criminal evenness.) (If I am visible then I must be seen to suffer because if … More 12 Pluviôse
Here is an old conga and it sounds like a Carnaval tune, and those Carnaval tunes are mambos and congas, calypsos, kalindas, tumbas and claves, cher. Axé.
It is possible to live better yet, particularly if I would not stay up so late. Mornings are always better after one gets up, but in other places I also like waking up in itself. Not feeling able to face the day is a sign of depression, it is said, although I would hazard instead … More Les aphorismes du matin
Periodically I have a flash of insight on why the students say I am not like the other professors, why I only seem to feel kinship with a minority of them, and why standard academic advice seems not to speak to me (and even feels like a violation). These things are interrelated; here are some … More On Types
This is alleged to be a picture rejected by Fox News, showing Louisiana National Guardsmen spreading salt on the roads by hand, due to the state’s lack of general preparedness and also funding. A friend wrote: Nobody says this in the reports I have seen so far, but it is blatantly obvious to me that … More Winter Storm Leon
I have just realized I am by contract expected to work 1800 hours per year. That would be 200 hours per month, over 9 months, or 150, over 12. 150 hours per month is only 35 hours a week. 180 is 45. Taking six weeks of vacation one comes to 40, or more with more … More 1800
“Affective domain” is from Bloom’s Taxonomy, I am sure he got it from some pedagogy workshop or class or training somewhere. You can look it up and talk about what you do in the “cognitive domain” as well as the “affective domain” so that you can document that you’re speaking the language. Has he put … More A resource
It is soon, and I do not have time to write it, but I must do it right, and it is designed as a way to start in on my LASA paper. I think I will use my ERIP paper and write a cover letter for it, essentially, that moves it ahead. What I am … More The next paper
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