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The first week of January is traditionally International Blog Delurking Week, but it slipped my mind so we ‘re doing it a little late. Without further ado… *drumroll* Delurkpalooza 2024! Show thyself, dear blog reader! Whether you’re old or new, whether you commented before or not, please stop by and tell us a little about…
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Happy 2024! May it bring you good health and contentment, and, if you’re in academia, also untold grant riches, high-profile publications, and a teaching schedule that makes you miss the most pointless meetings. This has been my 2023: Professional: Taught seven million courses, or at least it feels like I did. I taught a large…
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When you become senior enough, you get to (kind of) be temporarily in charge of other senior academics, generally as chair of a committee, or seventeen. I don’t know if I am finally achieving new levels of maturity, but I’ve acquired some unexpected insights from chairing one important university committee. One such insight has to…
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Happy Turkey Day! I cooked all day yesterday, I have to grade a midterm all day today, and then cook all day tomorrow because it’s spouse’s birthday and there’s a labor-intensive dish he wants. Then on Sunday I grade the midterm for another class. *** I finally picked a notes app and entered all the…
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It’s November, the time of NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo, and in years past I blogged daily during the month, but this November the idea of blogging even close to every day is so laughable, I might have peed myself a little just thinking about it. In other words, there’s no way I can pull off every…
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Whenever I start to leave needlessly elaborate comments on other people’s blogs, that’s a signal I should probably write my own post. The exhausting semester proceeds apace, with the pace being one that gives whiplash. Sunday evening is a time of dread as I face the calendar of upcoming obligations. Last week, I had a…
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This is officially the busiest semester I’ve ever had in my life. 😭 Teaching overload; insane service; the two afternoons I am not completely swamped with the former two, I’m desperately trying to finish and submit some papers. I am not twenty or even thirty anymore, and my body no longer tolerates lack of sleep.…
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Ladies and gentlemen! Without further ado, I present to you… *drumroll* …the cover of Academadness! Isn’t it awesome? Adrian Medina of Fabled Beast Design did a smashing job. (Adrian is also an accomplished horror writer and editor of Aphotic Realm magazine and press.) Basically, I told him I wanted a Goosebumps theme, but with academic details,…
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GOOD NEWS! My novel got picked up by a small genre publisher. I’m very excited. The good news arrived during our family’s weeklong getaway to our home away from home, and this is the third year in a row that I’ve received good news while there (the previous two years involved grant money). So, the…
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Over the past few months I’ve been thinking, on and off, about the concept of closure. How people crave it, how often they feel entitled to it, how the popular culture seems to indicate it is both necessary and probable, and how the reality is far from it. You send a grant to a funding…
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