So I have only written thirty words today and I am knocking off to prepare my seminar for Tuesday. But I realized that in all this discussion of work I had not considered what anniversaries other than the obvious we might be commemorating this fall. My life has been more interesting and more pleasant than many … More 30
What did you teach today? This semester I am teaching: Spanish 2 (30 students) Spanish 3 (50 students) Portuguese Reading and Composition: for seniors in Linguistics, and graduate students preparing for the reading examination (5 students) Latin American Film: one of those hybrid senior/graduate courses, a highly diverse group (15 students). I am also Secretary … More My Grading Innovation
It is hardly that I do not agree that academic work is work. I have been quoted as saying so on the front page of the Los Angeles Times and that was because of handing out union cards. It was decades ago, and you can tell that to have been allowed to say it on … More Still Mo’ Woikin’
There was the Chilean coup in 1973, and there are these important anniversaries as well. Axé.
Let’s call what we do WORK, and let’s stop wearing white monogrammed dinner jackets when we do it. Once again: the problem I have with that sentence is that I never didn’t call it work or wear a white monogrammed dinner jacket to do “it.” Writing is fun, publishing is easy, teaching is a pleasant … More More on the Question of Work
Can you please explain the advantages of bibliography managers, spreadsheets, and so on to people who are good typists and know how to use calculators? While I was learning (x)html and so on, everyone seems to have started using programs like Excel and JabRef, and I do not yet understand why. I understand what these … More Question
The pictures in that video would have looked exotic to me at one time but they no longer do, as such scenes can still be seen. Someone else says: I’m tired of the confidence, the guys who act as if the wind is at their backs, all of which cloaks the true effort involved. Let’s … More Ain’t It Hard
This film looks excellent. I found it, of course, while looking for something else, and it reminded me of one of the many ironies of life. There were long term Uruguayan exchange students at my high school. They had left before the 1973 coup but by the time they went home, the military had been … More Resisting Juan María Bordaberry
Addendum, Part A: I regularly get people into good PhD programs in my field and many of them, as well as those whose dissertations I directed or was on, now hold good jobs and high ranks. My advising question, below and now in red, has to do with the social sciences. I am still soliciting … More Further Anti-Advice to New Faculty, and an Advising Question, Revised
I had written about three more paragraphs of vitriol, about my irritation with entitled beings, but I erased them inadvertently and cannot reconstruct. I feel horrible because of teaching 5 classes and doing other work too, it is grueling, and I do not have good habits at this time (as in, always going to the … More 937
