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I deactivated my facebook account again. I am very interested to see what happens. I am trying to implement a new heavily curated internet experience. I have identified the things of the internet that...
View ArticleCase of the Mondays
I accidentally made rice instead of oatmeal this morning. So I am eating it (rice) with my coffee. So that happened. Fall has sprung, and there are leaves of all manner of color and hue upon every inch...
View ArticleGenocide Day
Well, it’s Columbus Day weekend, which means we have Monday off school for some reason. Furthermore, in a twist I have never heard of before, my new school does this thing where when there’s a Monday...
View ArticleHitchcock, Dostoevsky, and such-and-such
I keep wanting to write blog entries even though I barely do more than 1-2 things each day and those things are too boring to blog about, but they take up so much mental room in my brain that I feel I...
View ArticleNew England Traditions
As our ancestors stored nuts and berries in tunnels underneath the ground to prepare for winter, so do we modern humans order many “upcycled” wool products off etsy as we feel the weather changing. I...
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- drunk with the power of my new position, I use it (my power) to unilaterally declare that beethoven will be taught in the “Romantic” section of this class, rather than the “Classical,” where he has...
View Articleadvice, literature, my nemeses
Hey babes, Here’s a new ADVICE! It’s sure been a long time, and this one is frankly a doozy. I would really love some other perspectives on it, and I’m sure the letter writer would as well. I got up...
View ArticleFollowing up
I’ve been asked in the comments about my hatred of Jeffrey Eugenides, and I was about to write a post all about it, but then I had this weird feeling that I had already done so, and I searched my...
View ArticleTGIF
It happened It happened….TO ME It became Friday again And Friday is my SATURDAY Hello friends, I got up at 6:00 a.m. even though it’s my day off. It is straight-up pitch black outside, like it could be...
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Thoughts Upon Returning From An Academic Conference
- You forget how much you miss being around COLLEAGUES. People with whom you don’t have to preface or explain; people who know the basic foundations of your scholarly ideas; people who can give you...
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It happened! It got cold. I know this is the tip of the iceberg (har har) in terms of weather but it is already colder than your average Pac-NW winter’s day and there is something thrilling to me about...
View ArticleTIME PASSING
Oh man. Alex has just alerted me to the fact that it has now been TEN YEARS since I posted my fabled journal, kept while “in training” at a cell phone call center in 2004. And actually the journal was...
View ArticleI Was Gonna Read This Marxist Book About Women Rebelling Against Un-Waged...
My Time Breakdown: - 8,000,000 hours a day: writing back to students who email me asking only one of two things: * please can I override the school’s enrollment system because they waited too long to...
View Articleanalogies
I’m going to stop talking about how much work I have to do. I’ve made this promise before. I will try to stick to it. I’m like a chocoholic, but with talking about work. talking about being overworked...
View ArticleJurassic Park
Currently very much enjoying this article Freddy sent me, which is a review of Jurassic Park written in 1993 by Stephen Jay Gould, who begins by extensively quoting Macbeth, and later reveals that as a...
View Articlethe spirit is weak and the flesh also is weak
My grandmother finally died! Bless her heart. It has been a long, long time coming and I am very relieved that it is over. People are living too long these days. Both my grandmother and my grandfather...
View Articletruths universally acknowledged
if I get a group email from my institution that I don’t understand, I will delete it and try to forget about it, even if I get the same email several times, with increasingly urgent subject lines if I...
View ArticleJesus (Not Christmas Jesus)
Jesus Lord! I am feeling what is colloquially known as “spread too thin.” What a great idiom. It’s so evocative, and when you’re spread too thin that’s exactly how you feel–like your attention and your...
View ArticleSo Close I Can Taste It
Second to last day. It is 7:45 a.m. and I am in my office. My TAs are trickling in to finish grading the make-up finals and do the elaborate math necessary to come up with a student’s final grade in...
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