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Had a great Thanksgiving with family. Back soon.
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Just finished my lecture (I’m teaching in person, but folks might be traveling, so today’s lecture was online and recorded). The advances in videoconferencing and everyone’s comfort with various tools used for the purpose are a positive thing that has arisen from the last two years of craziness. I am teaching a massive undergraduate class
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pic.twitter.com/CGTa0GJuvE — Fox (@hourlyFox) November 17, 2021 https://twitter.com/PubityOnInsta/status/1461836273753239555?s=20 I never want to see a giant pair of scissors at an opening ever again. https://t.co/LTNTTcABEM — 💧🌏 Jen Kader (@JenWenKad) November 19, 2021 https://twitter.com/bigbootyderek/status/1462568535901802499?s=20 https://twitter.com/bigbootyderek/status/1462840665243590659?s=20 History repeats itself pic.twitter.com/YeEsb62qk9 — Soggy Moss (@moss_xeros) November 22, 2021 pic.twitter.com/mjJbhe7X79 — No Context Cats (@nocontextscats) November 22, 2021 pic.twitter.com/esgf33N5YW
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Apparently, I am at that career stage where I get solicited (with increasing frequency) to apply for the position of department chair or department head at various institutions. I am wholly unsuited for such positions, not because I can’t figure out what people need or solve interpersonal and logistical problems, but because: I cannot do
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Blogosphere, do you work weekends? During the summer, I usually don’t. During the semester (winter break, too), I always do. There is just way too much going on and I simply need the weekends. I wish I didn’t, but I do. When I take a weekend completely off, usually I end up hopelessly backlogged and
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Originally appeared here. (Only this past January. Jesus, feels like eons ago.) I chatted with DH today about our childhoods. Mine often feels like another life, or like it happened to someone else. Perhaps that’s how everyone feels. As I wrote here and there on the blog, I had primary school (equivalent of elementary plus
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Originally appeared here. Apropos nothing, I remembered a post by a frugality/early-retirement blogger who is of some note in the early-retirement blogging community. She and her husband have achieved financial independence and are now homesteading somewhere in the Northeast. What matters here is her post on when she knew she’d marry her husband. The pair dated
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Aaaaaah! Been too busy today. No time for a long post, but likely tomorrow. In the meantime, Twitter links! Think slugs can't be tender or sexy? Think again. I love this poem by Sharon Olds: pic.twitter.com/BChyqaQHoL — Dr. Maya C. Popa (@MayaCPopa) November 16, 2021 https://twitter.com/AlexaSommers/status/1460413194376077316?s=20 Romance is dead? Not in the Midwest pic.twitter.com/Ul1Bsn6Zhq —
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Reader asks: Your posts from previous years have led me to some questions: How do you think your writing (on academia) has changed from when you started blogging? I’m sure changes in academia have affected your writing style and content, but are there any major differences you’ve noticed in your blogging, things like tone, length
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