It’s been a different kind of season. Summer hasn’t quite decided to be summer. The Earth seems to be recalling its own at a disarming rate. Among them, I learned this weekend, was one of my former students. Here I go back to Harris Hall surrounded by students wanting to know stuff. Mario has crumpled [...]
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Off the Market
I've been a professor for almost 10 years. I like what I do, but rarely talk about why I essentially left the profession almost a year ago. Let me explain a little here. It wasn't a huge epiphany but was an epiphany nonetheless that made me realize I was in an abusive relationship that had [...]
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“Next Week” Has Come and Gone
Yes, it was a coupla weeks ago that I promised to post pics of The Twin's graduation. The Twin indeed graduated. The Twin was indeed decorated. I was proud and tired. The latter would be my excuse except it's just not true. So without further fanfare nor delay, because I know you've been waiting with [...]
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My Positive (Well, Not Really That Positive) Spin On Unemployment
I wake up every morning unemployed and pissed off about it. One might think pissed off-ness would have worked like premium gas and got my system into racing form. But just like the economic forecast predicted: I am stuck with the rest of the sluggish economy. What's a girl to do when she wakes to [...]
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A Decade Late and a Lot of Dollars Short
I read Thomas Benton's first article about the virtual uselessness of a graduate degree in the Humanities way back in 2003. I had just finished my first year of full time salaried teaching at my choice of universities; I had turned down an offer at a major university because "I didn't wanna live in the [...]
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Free
http://www.myspace.com/darleneanitascott Love is weird. Kind of like a drug. Enough can make you feel good; too much and you feel terrible. I have loved one man in my life. Just enough to move on when we weren’t loving each other the same ways. You know: if you love something set it free; if it returns [...]
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Dissing the Doctorate
From today’s Chronicle of Higher Education comes an article I wish people like my well meaning uncle (a doctor of the medical variety) could read. Before he tells me again that the phd he wants me to pursue (in addition to the one terminal degree I've already earned, will pay for itself). Shoot, the first one [...]
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First Day of School
Today was my first day at my new University which, by the way, is in a new state. The students were kind. I feel--and surely looked--really disoriented. It didn't help that I had no syllabus to give them considering that I have not been given the course textbook--a reader edited by members of the department. [...]
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I Called It Spring Fever Yesterday, But It’s Not
Willem van Aelst, 1626, oil on canvas I called it Spring Fever, but it’s not. It’s a kind of burn out that should not be happening to me after so few years in the classroom. I admit that I’m kind of a restless type. Five years of anything—people, places, things—is usually the limit of [...]
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Spring Fever
Class 1: 7 students Class 2: 10 students Class 3: 10 students; 2 late enough to be ignored on the roll. Diagnosis: Spring Fever It’s not the weather. Today was cold like it forgot March 21 has come and gone. But it’s here. It’s that time of year and that state of mind and [...]
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