My horoscope challenge, and a film clip
06/12/2012
My current Breznyscope is quite good, and yes, it is all about freedom. We could, meanwhile, insert this clip in bad papers: Axé.
Anhelos, y un descubrimiento
06/12/2012
I was grading for Spanish courses taught to the language requirement, trying to recover from dealing with these peoples’ behavior, exhausted and bored and drained, and listening to NPR where they are interviewing a professor on a political situation in a country. Z: I would rather be that professor. In Reeducation this thought would have … More Anhelos, y un descubrimiento
Grades
06/12/2012
The way I make grades is, I first figure out what grade the student would get in Berkeley in the late 1970s. Then I go half a grade up if it is an upper division course, and a whole grade up if it is lower division, or if I feel I have been prevented from … More Grades
A Trip to the Moon 1902
06/12/2012
Axé.
On “refusing to teach”
06/12/2012
That is what the language requirement students complain of in my classes: I refuse to teach. It is true that if not given a “smart” classroom I no longer attempt to compensate for this, even with a CD player, and it is true that I do not make handouts to substitute for the textbook, or … More On “refusing to teach”
Another damned medievalist
05/12/2012
…said this: I don’t want to get to the point where coping takes up so much of my energy that I won’t be able to leave! I am glad someone else recognizes how much energy coping takes. Axé.
Москва под снегом 1908, music by Borodin (“Steppes of Central Asia”)
05/12/2012
Axé.
Inhabit
05/12/2012
I am glad I am staying home all break because I have so much to do. The reason I stayed up all night in the office last Friday was to inhabit it. People convinced me to stay in academia without understanding, although I explained patiently, that I had left in spirit long ago. They convinced … More Inhabit
Scrivener
05/12/2012
I will finish grading, everything in a row, and then I will download Scrivener to two different systems and learn it. I will organize all of my files. I will do this by graduation. I will attempt to resolve the wireless problem I have in Linux. If I cannot, I will consider what to do. … More Scrivener
Light reading for while students take finals
05/12/2012
An interesting review of developmentalism and dependency theory. Students do not get enough research training and what I now do in these hybrid senior/graduate courses is precisely at the level of what I did in Comparative Literature 1A, 1B, and 40, the freshman and sophomore courses I taught as a graduate student. Marc Bosquet is … More Light reading for while students take finals
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