If during graduate school you lost a TAship at your institution; if you have now tried everyone’s patience here; if you are now being allowed to take certain classes so you can earn a professional qualification in another field; please do not address the professor who is kindly but painedly showing you how to register [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘News’
November 8, 2009
Jean-Pierre Rampal
I have not been posting very much because I no longer have reliable Internet to the house, and will not until April. I am not reading the news very much because the 60% budget cut higher education in this state is to absorb by 2012, is antithetical to my good mood. Work is going well, [...]
October 15, 2009
That Job Market: Suggestions for Interviewees
It is October 15, the traditional opening day of the job search season. I have a few suggestions for people going on campus visits — suggestions others may not have covered yet.
1. Good facilities are rare. Take note of the schools that have these.
2. Think of yourself as a colleague, not as an aspirant or [...]
October 12, 2009
Día de la Dignidad y Resistencia de los Pueblos Indígenas
This is October 12 and I have forgotten to mention it in two classes so far. Today in Guatemalan protests against the putative heroism of Columbus and the Hispanization of America (which is colonization, Europeanization, whitening) one Native person has been killed so far that I know of.
Imer Boror, aged 19, was killed by gunfire [...]
October 9, 2009
The Republican/Oil Princess Look
It involves:
+ cosmetic surgery
+ serious foundation and eye makeup
+ salon tan
+ red nails
+ rhinestone flip flops
+ salon dyed and highlighted blonde hair (very, very important)
+ shorts or little black sundress
Axé.
October 8, 2009
“I Said the Wrong Thing”
“I am sorry I said the wrong thing. I am sorry to have upset you. I hope you can get over it.”
Meaning:
“I refuse to apply normal standards of behavior when dealing with you. I will say abusive and dismissive things, I will ask inappropriate questions, and I will make inappropriate remarks.
“I am unable to see [...]
October 5, 2009
Unrealistic
I have discovered that tourist visas to Brazil now cost over $200, and I have not been able to find a cat sitter yet. The house is not in good enough shape to rent because I cannot afford to get it into such shape, so I need a sitter I can trust. I had not [...]
October 4, 2009
Corazón libre, no te entregues
Mercedes Sosa, 9. VII. 1935 – 4. X. 2009, recorded 2008 in Montevideo:
Buen viaje.
Axé.
October 3, 2009
The Independent World Report
It is the weekend, so we are singing, but I am not putting on music of my own because I have so much work to do. There is music in the town, and on WWOZ.
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Our friend Tasneem Khalil has launched a bimonthly human rights focused world news magazine, and you should subscribe to the print [...]
September 30, 2009
Il fait frais!
It is now that day in September upon which the heat leaves, ending five months of Hell. I have been outdoors. Outdoors! It will be a dry eighty for an entire month, and might get to the low seventies or high sixties at night. I might get a slight tan.
Axé.
