It is raining and it reminds me of Mexico, Chile, Berkeley, Oregon, places I wish I lived and where I could walk to bookstores. I would like to stay home and read today and this would in fact be research. “Tenho saudade de tudo.” My colleague says the problem here is that so many in … More La nostalgie
I got up in Dupont Circle and walked past the row houses to a café, had coffee and came back and packed. I walked to the metro and rode to the airport, changing trains once. At the airport I read old notes on Vallejo and transcribed them, including the outline of an old conference paper, … More Another world
Apparently, you make a Moodle assignment and then expand it. Axé.
Viewing faculty as cogs, and valuing them in that way. Fetichization of the “chain of command” supports cliquishness and the old-boys network. Favoritism. Lack of communication. Lack of equity. * EXPERTISE IS NOT RECOGNIZED. * Axé.
Vision… Odor and gaze Lost from view (Without a trace) Oh fury… Scandalous life… Various lions… NOT ALREADY PUBLISHED BY US (BUT REVISIT TO MAKE SURE OF WHAT HAS AND HAS NOT BEEN PUBLISHED IN TRANSLATION BY OTHERS) Camino de tierra… Mundo ilustrado… El humo se disipa… Vienes en la noche… Batalla… Leve pisada… El … More Already published
This weekend in Large City I saw a friend who is the language coordinator at R1. For exit interviews from the BA, departmental goal is to have 40% of graduates at ACTFL Advanced Mid, and the other 60% at Advanced High. I am looking right now at examples of Distinguished, Superior, Advanced and Intermediate readings. … More E-mail too dry to send
Here is someone worth knowing about. I feel really alienated from work and really sad. But it is important to recognize, as Mitchell points out, that aggression is one reaction people can have to others’ achievement. I never understood this. I believed it when told I had done them wrong, and tried to disable myself … More Koritha Mitchell
A tent is one. The one I have part of is an REI half-dome. That’s a fairly large tent and it weighs 5.5 pounds. I would like a small one. A footprint for the tent. Do I have one? A stuff sack for my sleeping back and something to sleep on. Do I have anything, … More Some things I will need
The automated university-as-a-business that Schumpeter desires fails to valorize the qualities of mind that follow from regular writing practices. A good writer of prose is also a good teacher, and can easily detect good ideas in well-written prose. The regular writer, then, does not need to spend as much time “teaching”. The student and the … More Habits of mind
I want to e-mail this but should not. I have to get it out of me. The narrative of the beginning of all of this I got from X, with difficulty, during the summer, was: 1. Y had been coaching student practice many hours a semester, for honorarium of $100. 2. The importance of the … More Censored
