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Breaking news: It is, in fact, possible to feel rested. I was thinking that I would never feel relaxed and rested again in my life, and thus never again feel anything but overwhelming dread at the thought of cooking, washing dishes, cleaning clutter, any chore really… I decided it’s because I was old, fat, and
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https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/back-from-yet-another-globetrotting-adventure-indiana-jones-checks-his-mail-and-discovers-that-his-bid-for-tenure-has-been-denied
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A provocative essay on administrative assessment-mania, written by a friend of the blog, Alex. His take focuses on universities, but K-12 has long ago fallen prey to the same trend. https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2018/07/03/professor-questions-current-approaches-assessment-opinion
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An excellent post at Tenure, She Wrote: https://tenureshewrote.wordpress.com/2018/07/02/why-is-it-always-my-job-to-fix-men/ Go read!
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philipa asked for some book recommendations, so here are a few! Science fiction magazines: I love Interzone and have received sample packs of Analog and Asimov’s. In case it’s not obvious, I am partial to science fiction over (many, perhaps most subgenres of) fantasy. Short story collections: Other Household Toxins (literary flash fiction by
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I have to write an evaluation letter for someone’s promotion. The person’s record is incomplete and also just not that great. This makes me very grumpy, because I don’t want to write a bad letter, yet it’s not at all easy to write a good one in this case. The student on the project I
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Lust Stories (IMDB; Netflix) (Indian drama/comedy) — four shorts depicting relationships in the modern Indian society; superb all around (storylines, directing, acting) Matkub (IMDB; Netflix) (Israeli comedy) — two low-level crooks survive an explosion and decide to turn their lives around; really funny with a lot of heart The Man in the Wall (IMDB; Netflix) (Israeli drama)
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Yep, that’s me! As old as the hills. I will celebrate by… …having a party for Smurf, whose 7th birthday is on Monday. The morning involved getting coffee, getting cupcakes with blue frosting and superhero plastic rings, and telling Smurf every 2.3 minutes how much time is left until his party (which is at 1
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Academic blogosphere, I have a ponderable issue for you. We all know there are academics, age 70 or 80 or more, who seem to be as passionate about their work as ever, getting grants, running huge labs, showing no sign of slowing down. When I started on the tenure track, I thought that would be
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Disclaimer: Another post in which I might come across as an a$$hole, but it’s not on purpose. The following is probably no news to anyone who spends time on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.). However, I’m only on (literary) Twitter (absolutely no Facebook or anything else) and am relatively new at it. Anyway, there’s
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