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I’m now what is considered a midcareer academic (in fact, I am exactly halfway between when I was hired and when I can be expected to retire), which means I know how to do my job, but have still (at least in principle) a lot of gas in the professional tank. Someone might say that
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I have been a delinquent blogger all summer long, but I don’t think my time of academic musings has come to an end. Come fall, venting and exasperation are likely to resume with renewed vigor. It’s been a busy and eventful summer. The main news is that my (pretty insane) grant-writing efforts from this winter
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Hat tip to Grumpies (nicoleandmaggie) for this great video that resonated with me. Chaos Goblins of the world, unite! What she said about passively priming her brain before diving into something with deep focus and achieving great gains over short periods of time is very much how I operate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2sS00egAzg
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(The original post and comments are here.) I’ve written some (OK, maybe a lot) about the way I (dis)organize my time. My goal is not to throw shade at list lovers and über-organizers. However, I feel like the only “how to” voices we hear online come from the people who advocate that success, money, and
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been pushing out some papers and tending to my mentoring and editorial duties, while also trying to get as much rest as I can before I start summer teaching. So I’ve been reading a lot; Kindle app informs me I’ve read 63 books since the start of the year,
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A few months ago, I met up with a former department colleague who had moved to another institution nearly a decade ago. It was really nice to catch up. His significant other is in the same technical field as we are, and she works as a (nonacademic) research scientist. As we chatted, the colleague said
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It’s finals week. I have a mountain of grading. I decided I would take it easy this week, so I am rested for next week, when I really need to push some papers out in the month before onerous summer obligations start. This planned week of rest involves grading, committee work, and trying to clear
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Inspired by gwinne, I give you a 15-min stream-of-consciousness post. One more week left in the semester (after this week). I can’t wait. I am completely exhausted. Huge undergrad class plus grad class as overload. I could spend 40+ hours per week doing nothing but teaching and service and meeting with students and collaborators. Teaching
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I’ve been having a few very disappointing days at work. Or was it weeks? The most dispiriting aspect is that, regardless of how senior I am, there will always, always, be crap that I wouldn’t have to deal with if I were a dude. And it’s all young men dishing out the bullshit. A former
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Extremely busy, so, for now, some links: The Four Apostrophe’s’ of the apocalypseses’s’ pic.twitter.com/iMdCI5SKaO — Big Lhist (@biglhist) March 22, 2022 https://twitter.com/drshawna/status/1506346833232027648?s=20&t=tIrINzdm4Zd7_BVkUtJEOA Don't you mean this one? pic.twitter.com/eSNSPbazpB — Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social (@datavisFriendly) March 23, 2022 pic.twitter.com/AK1YRDZ9dD — WholesomeMemes (@WholesomeMeme) March 22, 2022 Friendly reminder that there's an Indian metal band called Bloodywood and when
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