Worksheet and game

01/11/2012

What did you give up for the sake of having an academic job? Money (salary, savings) UP: I was not raised to hope to support myself, and I do. DOWN: This is even less well paid than I expected. Actually, it is quite frightening how poorly it is paid and that is a main reason … More Worksheet and game

April

31/10/2012

When this was new we named our cat after it and carved pumpkins. Now it is Hallowe’en again and we have jack-o’-lanterns again, and a jack-o’-lantern is a will-o’th’wisp and is there and then not, like the cats. Axé.

Untenable II

30/10/2012

I really do try but these basic foreign language courses are depressing and the students are scary. The worst academic advice that can be given is the repetition that one will not “get” to teach such courses any more when one becomes a professor. That was one of the main scoldings I used to get, … More Untenable II

Untenable I

30/10/2012

If I did not have such a heavy service load or such a broad teaching range at the upper division to graduate level, and if we had an actual language program in place such that I knew what our goals and preferred methods actually were, then I might, despite the fact that this is very … More Untenable I