Invierte el sufrimiento posiciones, da función en que el humor acuoso es vertical al pavimento, el ojo es visto y esta oreja oída So, unfortunately pain grows in the world at all times, it grows at thirty minutes per second, step by step, and the nature of pain is twice the pain, and the condition … More The nine monsters
Here is a reading list for students considering graduate work in Spanish. Here is my list for students considering Latin American literature as a secondary field for the Ph.D in another literature. Like the SMT list, it is not a reading list for the actual examination, but a preliminary list. * Here is an ancient … More Reading lists
1/- I should read this on zapatismo as indianismo, but it lies out of the scope of my project, or does it, really? I would like to be in Bolivia to do it … and I am so tired of being under so much stress of different kinds and I wonder how much of the … More On some questions of scope
Thursday night my mother fell such that she is now in the hospital, and my colleague’s mother committed suicide. I am still grading, and today I am creating and hosting the department party. My general thesis appears to be that academic advice exists not to advise, but to suggest to people that events can be … More Chocant
Like Clarissa and fascinated by the study of Black academic dandies I discovered via Stupid Motivational Tricks, I am observing useful fashion items. What personality or interests in life are expressed by this kind of taste? Axé.
My current Breznyscope is quite good, and yes, it is all about freedom. We could, meanwhile, insert this clip in bad papers: Axé.
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
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
Axé.
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”
