After a long, pretty fabulous teaching day, I have returned home. I’m braising kale to make me feel virtuous about the pizza I’ll be consuming with it. Tomorrow’s classes are prepped. But I am vexed, and this is not the post I had intended to post tonight. I am that vexed.
Sitting in the “Drafts” folder [...]
Archive for the ‘che’ Category
18 Feb
Effing ment-al
18 Dec
$19.99!
That’s how much my most recent free dinner with a job candidate will cost me. I am elated, since this is the least I will have ever spent on dinner with a candidate here. By comparison with last year—when I spent $98 on an otherwise unmemorable salad and some random excellent cheese, for example—I [...]
7 Oct
So not Schadenfreude
In the course of a modern, nomadic academic career, one accumulates a set of far-flung, long-distance friends who used to be colleagues. Either that or I’m a special kind of loser who, in person but not via telephone or e-mail, has been alienating people at one non-tenure-track appointment after another. OK, just humor me.
When I’m [...]
31 Aug
A post I’m not proud of
Next week, on a day when I will be on campus for thirteen solid hours, meeting in conferences with students, teaching classes, and attending that other type of meeting, the chair of another department has thought nothing of compelling me to meet the new hire in her department. This new hire has no family in [...]
13 Jul
Foucault’s bundt pan, or, the logic of selling out
Like millions of academics around the world, I am scrambling to publish at least one Least Publishable Unit by summer’s end. Like most humanist academics, I’m also trying to make headway on something less Least—namely, a book manuscript.
Though I say so myself, the project I’m working on has decent prospects as a (sotto voce here) [...]
