We have been in school for one week. All of my students are above average, all of my classes are interesting, Hell has not broken loose, and we may even be able to hire. For some reason there is time to prepare classes and to write and to have a life. I am pinching myself. What happened? Usually I expect this situation – it would be normal, after all – and I get the opposite. I finally gave up last semester, but now I have the normality I had longed for. I hope it is not a mirage.
Axé.
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1. While writing here is an excellent exercise for my English style and for writing as such, it is bad for my style in Spanish. Therefore some posts may be in languages other than English.
2. Corybantic, rather anarchical and possibly Liangian, this blog is opposed to everything I find mean. It may criticize things you hold dear. It resists authoritarianism and has little truck with received ideas.
3. This blog is a codex you have found. It speaks to one and all. But it also holds secrets and hides its face, for I who now perform the ancient text must adapt its words for modernity. I am a sculpted skull on a stela at Copán.
SE LES AGRADECE LA GENTIL COMPRENSION Y, COMO SIEMPRE, LA VISITA.
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4 Comments
January 24, 2008 at 9:40 pm
oh, some weird thing happened!
Congratulations!
January 25, 2008 at 11:23 am
Ain’t it great? It feels utterly different, too: showing that in fact, normally it *isn’t* just me, I really do have untenable working conditions.
The film club I am faculty advisor of is really sweet, too.
January 26, 2008 at 10:01 am
Way back when I was an undergraduate, I had many classes in a room where someone had written on the little strip of wood just over the blackboard, “Praise Betty!” Often during class, I would stare at those words, and in time, they became my favorite expression of “Hallelujah!”
January 27, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Good for you! I’m glad things are going well.