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
Here is a picture from the house event last night, where the roux had been “double-fisted with true Cajun talent,” as it was said. There was Sean Bruce and Mandolin Orange. All these people will be famous, but we know them now. It is possible to live better yet. #OccupyHE Axé.
Made by the Lomaxes. Look how long ago this was. Axé.
Here is a State of the Union checklist I received from CREDO. Reject the Keystone XL pipeline. President Obama has said that action on climate change will be a centerpiece of his second term agenda. But he simply cannot make the necessary progress on climate changes as long as he allows tar sands production to expand. Sign … More The United States
(It is possible to live yet better.) I woke up thinking of the career diagnosis test I took last night, which told me I should be, most obviously, a neuropsychologist, and if not, a psychiatrist, a clinical psychologist, a sociologist or a political scientist. It did not say I should not be what I am, … More The morning in review
It is possible to live yet better. Still — I am now in a position to say I love my job. This is because I am able, this semester, to teach as I see fit. Perhaps this can last. Someone reminded me of the most devastating of the sentences we had to absorb in Reeducation: … More Au matin
Philology was, however, also understood in very different terms, not as an empirical study of a limited field, but as a speculative undertaking oriented toward deep time and distant things. In “We Philologists,” written in 1874, Nietzsche registered his contempt for most philologists, whose work impressed him as an absurd combination of inconsequentiality and hubris. … More On Philology
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…is appreciated. It is possible to live yet better. I love my job because I am barely teaching to any aspect of the language requirement and thus, barely using any textbook-company generated books. I am severely traumatized, I am told, by the language requirement courses here and the politics around them. I know I was … More The endless winter sun
I dressed up today exactly like myself as a freshman (the somewhat Sontag-like Look involves clog boots, jeans, dark sunglasses, a Danish messenger bag and a thick turtleneck). Given that I also wore a jacket I bought with an early TA check the first day of class this semester, I consider that my plan to … More Fashion, nationality…
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