Tonight, the longest Saturday night of the year (don’t forget to “fall back,” y’all), I shall arise from my nest of printouts from JSTOR and manuscript scraps. On my patio table I’ll place a glass containing Halloween-themed pencils and a big bowl containing granola bars I got for free with coupons last week. At some [...]
Archive for October, 2009
25 Oct
Bartleby’s revenge
Three years and two months ago I arrived in Funky City for my first tenure-track job. At last, my job had come along! My temping days were over, but alas, life was no song. My landing was not gentle, and I’ve written about some of the disasters that greeted me here. I often felt I [...]
15 Oct
No reservations. . . not
Between job searches and graduate school admissions of all flavors, many faculty members’ offices are like little recommendation-letter factories these days. Letter-writing is part of my job, and I owe it to the universe not to upset this pyramid scheme that works as a pyramid scheme ought to work: since high school, over a dozen [...]
