Alouette
20/11/2012
If I am thinking well enough ahead I think of this, going to difficult classes or meeting with cranky authorities. Alouette, I will catch you in the end. Axé.
T.S. Eliot
20/11/2012
Time and the bell have buried the day, The black cloud carries the sun away. Will the sunflower turn to us, will the clematis Stray down, bend to us; tendril and spray Clutch and cling? Chill Fingers of yew be curled Down on us? After the kingfisher’s wing Has answered light to light, and is … More T.S. Eliot
On evil inner voices
19/11/2012
Here is an interesting post, on which I of course have interesting comments. Now the question is, how do these voices get installed in one? I always liked school because it was, precisely, not attempting to install such voices. Some of the academic jobs I have had, or some whitemen in them, have made mighty … More On evil inner voices
Bad advice #2, and good advice #1 and #2
19/11/2012
“Go anywhere.” Not quite. Z to colleagues: Well, despite a request and funding from upper administration, I may not get my course release. It feels like discrimination, or inappropriate interference: do you think it is about me personally, or about our subfield, or something else, or am I being “overly sensitive”? Colleague 1: Our subfield. … More Bad advice #2, and good advice #1 and #2
Lundi
19/11/2012
I have to talk about this at some point. My good colleague is not wrong and I would love to be in her department. But she is quite a different person from me. I am going off to my Monday meeting of terror, prelude to my Tuesday of horror, after which we will be home … More Lundi
Going la maison
18/11/2012
The students do not understand why I keep telling them direct translation from English to Spanish will not work, and much of Cajun French is in fact directly translated from English. In current Spanish, I am told that if one listens to corridos, one can actually hear “dar atrás” or “dar p’atrás” meaning “give back.” … More Going la maison
Southern hospitality
18/11/2012
Last night at the football game, where I was because of my exchange student, one of the important guests was a very trailblazing and high achieving alumna, the highlights of whose resumé were read. “Who cares,” chanted the crowd, “Who cares.” This alumna is a Black woman. The chants of “Who cares” turned to boos … More Southern hospitality
More on Reeducation
18/11/2012
In Reeducation, one was not supposed to be able to handle the stress of adult life. To be able to do so was “denial” of how difficult it “must really be” and, more frighteningly, indicated an absence of “feeling”. If one lacked this “feeling” one might have a very severe problem and need very severe treatment. In … More More on Reeducation
More on mentoring
18/11/2012
It is the topic of this blog, really: I am trying to de-Reeducate myself which means mentor myself, and my education was good but Reeducation was, essentially, bad mentoring. There is this to talk about in my case but it is not all. And yet I am tired of talking. I think I just had … More More on mentoring
Ways in which I am not Hispanic.
18/11/2012
I am not Catholic. I am a Mexican, but I am not Hispanic, I am a skull on a Mayan stela, as we know. She who here performs the ancient text, however, was recently called, with appreciation, a “free Anglo-Saxon” because, not having been baptized, she does not fear pagan symbols or associate them, in … More Ways in which I am not Hispanic.
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