The way to make friends and influence people in your favor is not to guess where battle lines may lie and and attempt to butter up someone who has been in the place longer against whoever you imagine, or even know they disagree with. No matter how much I may disagree with someone or agree … More Yet More Advice to New Faculty
I realize how harsh this whole series of posts sounds but remember, this is not an academic blog or an advice blog, it is my after hours blog, and I am a sculpted skull on a stela at Copán. And in this particular performance of life I have been exhorted for decades about how difficult … More The End of Difficulty, and That Wolf at the Door
It’s fun to work in the offices weekend nights now that the weather has cooled down, but it is not fun during the week because it is so noisy. The janitors finish working but are not allowed to leave, so they go into the offices, sit in the chairs and speak sleepily on the phones … More Midnight in the Offices
My family will be on the street if I cannot place this manuscript! is the place that primordial research fear comes from and I understand it very well — likely better than you know. Still I want to say that when I started to hear that anti-research drumbeat — you should not be interested in … More Et encore…
I suppose the reason people find research so stressful is that that is what they will be evaluated on. I understand completely. I do not mean to suggest teaching is not valuable. Remember, I even think administration is valuable and in thinking that I truly transgress. I do mean that I am tired of the … More That Research Stress
It seems that the Brontës had two older siblings, Maria and Elizabeth, who died due to poor conditions at the boarding school upon which Lowood (in Jane Eyre) is modeled, after which their father took the other girls out. Branwell had not had to go to boarding school. Of the remaining four, Charlotte lived to … More In the 19th Century
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Take equal parts steamed shrimp and steamed broccoli, chopped. and add a large handful of sliced mushrooms along with two minced garlic cloves and some salt. Dress with 1 tablespoon mayonnaise and 1/2 cup or more of full fat yogurt. Place in a serving bowl in the shape of a pyramid or Indian mound; garnish … More Shrimp Salad
All right, here are the characteristics one must have as a professor, from what I have been told since age three, when I chose my PhD program, but especially since age thirty, when I finished it. A true professor must have: – Boredom with research, dislike of writing, difficulty publishing, yet great activity in these … More What is Hard for Me
What if those who say they are having such a hard time with research and writing and suffering so greatly, are faking it completely? What if the ones who want me to use my blog space to discuss suffering even more than I already do, alleging that only in this way can I convince the … More Another Theory…
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