What a day yesterday was. Very admin, but also very Montreal. Blog’s been quite lately as I’ve had lots going on. Here’s one day. Some times are approximate. 7:10am: Wake up, get ready, get to school. 8:30: Breakfast with the provost and six other department chairs. Conversation ranges across various administrative initiatives. This is a …
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Nomination
Last night, Carrie and went and watched our departmental hockey team lose a game in a shootout, 4-3. There was beer and peanuts. I’m not sure, but this may be the most Canadian thing we have ever done. Also, it’s extremely Canadian that the dept has a co-ed amateur hockey team.
Academic Labor Politics in the Air
It must be the season or something. Today, our TA union staged a demonstration outside the front gates in support of their ongoing contract negotiations. McGill teaching assistants are quite underpaid compared to their counterparts at other Canadian universities and “R1” universities in the U.S. It’s a Quebec thing, since they’re better paid than TAs …
That’s what happens when I make promises. . .
. . .that I can’t keep. But it’s been quite a couple weeks, as we’ve gone from lizard. . . > (on the grounds of the resort where we were staying)… …to yet another blizzard, this one putting us within 30cm of the all-time record for snowfall. Here’s a pic of where we would have …
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This week’s blog topic: our vacation in Mexico
That’s the plan anyway, if I can get the time free to write (even though I swore I was done with book reviews, I’m finishing a review of Steven Wurtzler’s Electric Sounds for Cinema Journal). In the meantime, I would like to briefly comment on two things only loosely vacation-related: 1. The Orlando airport is …
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So much for February
Somehow I thought I’d get a bunch of writing done this month. Instead, I accomplished a lot of entertaining (of candidates and guests), many and varied chairing tasks and a little bit of writing. Which is better than nothing, certainly. After a bunch of interviews, we moved on to hosting Cary Nelson and Paula Treichler …
Capsule Reviews of Expensive Restaurants (from a vegetarian perspective)
I promise that this isn’t going to turn into an annoying foodie blog. It’s just that my life has been consumed lately with matters that can’t be blogged about, like a search. But one of the plus sides of interviewing job candidates is the opportunity to go out to expensive restaurants that I might not …
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