I dedicate this entry to my readers residing in the United States. “They insisted that cheese production must be carried out in licensed, fully hygienic facilities, which rules out the bottom of a lake.” “He says he’s also looking forward to tasting the cheese.”
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In Defense of the Six Week Vacation
In my post below about my Mellon application, I’ve got a comment basically calling me out as a privileged academic for declaring that I intend to take six weeks’ vacation a year from here on out. Well, regardless of how much time I take off, I’m guilty as charged. I am a privileged academic. But …
A Year In (ctd)
You’d think that after three major life moves (Chambana, Pittsburgh, here — okay, that’s probably not all that much), I’d have figured out how to “get in” to a city as fast as possible. Then again, as Emily (one of my grad students) told me, it takes three years to really live in a place. …
Hit It 16, False Consciousness 3
There was much analysis after the game but I think it comes down to this: Monday’s practice helped. We still lost. Our fielding was good. Hell, our ERA dropped below 21! It was our performance at the plate which was upsetting. We kept hitting balls to them. Their fielding was good, but not heroic or …
More Blog Wars
Well, if the Chronicle of Higher Ed isn’t enough to get academics in a tizzy, there’s always the New York Times, which ran a story yesterday about a woman who fired her nanny for blogging. There’s tons of commentary: here (Steven’s blog first hipped me to it), here, and here. For me, this is less …
Ya-Ya Rules the World
Reason #572351 That I’m Glad I No Longer Live in Pennsylvania
A really stupid piece of legislation, based on David Horowitz’s academic bill of rights, that makes it easier to harass professors for their political views. Michael Berube has a good blog entry on the topic. I doubt the bill will make it into law, but even so, how lame is it that the house of …
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