If during graduate school you lost a TAship at your institution; if you have now tried everyone’s patience here; if you are now being allowed to take certain classes so you can earn a professional qualification in another field; please do not address the professor who is kindly but painedly showing you how to register … More On Protocol
I have not been posting very much because I no longer have reliable Internet to the house, and will not until April. I am not reading the news very much because the 60% budget cut higher education in this state is to absorb by 2012, is antithetical to my good mood. Work is going well, … More Jean-Pierre Rampal
That Blackguard has asked me what will happen at third year review. He was not interested in my answer, however, because he believes the public university which awarded him his degree is several tiers better than the one that awarded me mine (the University of California at Berkeley). In addition, I work at this university, … More Preparing for Third Year Review
1 ¿La ola no tiene forma? En un instante se esculpe y en otro se desmorona en la que emerge, redonda. Su movimiento es su forma. 2 Las olas se retiran –ancas, espaldas, nucas– pero vuelven las olas –pechos, bocas, espumas–. 3 Muere de sed el mar. Se retuerce, sin nadie, en su lecho de … More Octavio Paz, or Iemanja
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…that I heard over the weekend. For your consideration: 1. “Student centered classrooms” and “task based learning” have been invented to cover and compensate for having teachers trained in classroom management but not knowledgeable about the subject matter. 2. “Communicative” and “proficiency” oriented language teaching is part of vocational education, not part of a liberal … More Controversial Monday Ideas
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I remember clearly when Bending the Bow came out and we read: My mother would be a falconress, And I, her gay falcon treading her wrist, would fly to bring back from the blue of the sky to her, bleeding, a prize, where I dream in my little hood with many bells jangling when I’d … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Robert Duncan
AZURE Gracias, violines, por este día de cuatro cuerdas. Puro es el sonido del cielo, la voz azul del aire. –Pablo Neruda (Chile, 1904-1973), El mar y las campanas. I would post a photograph of Isla Negra but I lack time. Axé.
Yo sé un himno gigante y extraño que anuncia en la noche del alma una aurora, y estas páginas son de ese himno cadencias que el aire dilata en las sombras. Yo quisiera escribirle, del hombre domando el rebelde, mezquino idioma, con palabras que fuesen a un tiempo suspiros y risas, colores y notas. Pero … More Rima I
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