I’ve decided not to go in to the office today.
It’s Saturday morning. It’s the weekend before a national holiday. It’s also almost July, so I’m not even under contract.
Yup. Only an untenured faculty member would call not going in to the office under these circumstances “playing hooky.” I am avoiding stuff, however: namely, Spring course [...]
Archive for June, 2007
30 Jun
Hooky
28 Jun
Maybe that recurring nightmare wasn’t a dream, after all…
Or does this mean I have something in common with Paris Hilton? Or Scooter Libby?
I usually come out an INTJ on other versions of the Meyers-Brigg. That would be the “Crackpot.” Maybe my hard, hard life is changing me.
Your Score: Criminal- ISTP
26% Extraversion, 40% Intuition, 60% Thinking, 36% Judging
Rules? Hah! Who needs rules? They [...]
27 Jun
41 nightmares
I have a recurring nightmare in which I’ve killed someone and hidden the body. In different installments of this dream, I’ve inadvertently killed this person, dismembered and buried the body, imperfectly concealed my crime, and risk exposure. I never know the person I’ve killed. What’s more, in all the years I’ve dreamt this dream, I [...]
26 Jun
93
According to WorldCat, that’s the number of libraries with my book in their catalogs. Is it so wrong that I know this? At least I don’t have it on RSS or anything.
Speaking of books, I am bummed that I can’t get a LibraryThing widget to work on my sidebar. (In case you were wondering, only [...]
23 Jun
Time to bloom, innit?
No, this is not a belated Bloomsday post. Besides, I must admit I prefer Dubliners. I know, I know: I’ve just revealed an appalling lapse in taste. The luxury of pseudonymity indeed.
This post is about blooming where you’re (well, I’m) planted. And academics can’t be choosy about the soil. Can I finish this post without [...]
22 Jun
Gregor Samsa lay dying on my living room floor.
Or so he did yesterday. I left for the office as dawn spread her rosy fingertips across the sky, so it was light enough that I could see decently well. What did I see lying sprawled in the middle of the room but a three-inch-long cockroach? I had a meeting to get to, so I [...]
22 Jun
It’s…
my first post to my first blog. It’s a fine morning, this first full day of summer. No finer time to begin yet another academic blog.
So, the requisite little sumpthin about me: I just finished my first year on the tenure track, and boy howdy has it been a white-knuckle ride. Before I began this [...]
