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
Grading scales by poets
05/12/2012
César Vallejo’s 120th birthday was this year. Above is his Google Doodle. Here is a Chaucerian grading scale and here is one based on Beckett. I will have to create one out of Vallejo quotations. A Mi metro está midiendo ya dos metros mis husesos concuerdan en género y en número y el verbo encarnado … More Grading scales by poets
Students of iron
05/12/2012
1. Moved out at 16, worked full time the last two years of high school, living in an apartment with roommates. Does not feel $30,000 per annum for a hard job is bad pay. 2. Working as a stocker at Office Depot, which he calls “a place of blood, sweat and cigarettes.” Invents and executes … More Students of iron
What is the most difficult subject?
05/12/2012
The students say the most difficult subjects are foreign languages and math but I always felt the opposite. Those were the courses I would pick up to gather more credit hours of A without expending too much effort. This was because all you had to do was acquire a system and practice using it. There … More What is the most difficult subject?
Four ghostly monsters
05/12/2012
I think the reason you are to publish your revised dissertation as a book is to liberate it from the committee. Also, while you are doing this you see the shape of the next book come into view. I think this is a good plan generally. This project I have is not the next book … More Four ghostly monsters
Here, again, is why these classes are so traumatic
05/12/2012
We did not make tenure for the quality of our research or our teaching in the major and beyond, but by placating the instructors and the freshmen in language teaching and by doing a great deal of very effective service. We do not imagine this — it is objectively demonstrable and the people who did … More Here, again, is why these classes are so traumatic
