We voted, and now we have a furor. I would like to write a parody based upon what follows, but I have no time. Thus does my parody remain “unattempted in prose or rhyme.” Yet it is the weekend, and so we must sing. 1 Le donne, i cavallier, l’arme, gli amori, le cortesie, l’audaci … More Il Furore
It is the weekend and spring, so we are singing songs we first sang in elementary school! Turn up the volume. Axé.
If an expatriate is, as I believe, someone who never forgets for an instant being one, then, no. But, if knowing that you always tote your country around with you, your roots, a lump like a soul that will never leave you stranded in alien subsets of yourself, or your wild entire; that being elsewhere … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Dorothea Tanning
I would of course prefer never to think about beginning foreign languages at all, but I must. These are my questions today. How many semesters is your basic language sequence? Why? How many days a week does it meet? Why? What book do you use? Why? After the basic sequence is over, do you have … More Academic Mondays: Beginning to Intermediate FL
A good video has been made on this important 1984 event in Peru. Servindi says: Lo cruel del hecho es que el batallón militar hizo que los propios comuneros cavaran su propia fosa, con el engaño de que se trataría de una piscigranja para beneficio de ellos. En la fosa descubierta entre mayo y julio … More The Putis Massacre
Do you like to evaluate things? I really do not like evaluative activity to be required of me by commercial entities. I find invasive and coercive the calls one gets from supervisors at companies one has frequented in which one is asked to rate the courtesy level of one’s technician. If I had a complaint … More On Product and Service Evaluations as Interpellations to Commercialism
Read and discuss. Courtesy of Jennifer. Axé.
In your department, do instructors (with MAs) have a vote that weighs as much as that of professorial faculty (with PhDs and graduate faculty status)? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this for the program? I am thinking of votes on issues such as curriculum. In one of my departments instructors vote on such … More Academic Mondays: On Governance. Open Thread.
It is the weekend, so we must sing. The best songs are Chicago blues. “Snatch it back and hold it,” sings Junior Wells, and I have seen him sing it in person. I have an idea of what the phrase means but I would like a precise explanation. A more muted, later night song is … More Junior Wells
He informeth me that if I were yet more silent and proper than I already am, the bully of our subunit would not be moved to bully us all. He realizeth not that it was due to my silence and proper behavior that this bully was able to take over our subunit the way he … More Dat Whiteman
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