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ABSURDIST PARADISE: June 2011
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011. Epiphany and Resolution on Grading. I've been so grumbly and fierce lately, looking at everything including Tot and AL through a black cloud. (I had an annoying project hanging over my head along with laryngitis on top of the move.) But I've just finished an annoying project and I'm almost over this laryngitis and Tot is taking a nap, and it's time to recommit myself to being more positive. Labels: health and peace. Sunday, June 26, 2011. He's had pinkeye for the last few days, ...
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Not of General Interest: Thoughts from the archive
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Not of General Interest. Academics, teaching, books, technology, MOOC madness. Thursday, July 28, 2011. Thoughts from the archive. Walking into an archive (and a town) I've never been to before doesn't feel strange, somehow, for as soon as I caught sight of Author's familiar handwriting, I felt right at home. Ha ha re: camera! I say click away. Its so very secret agent to take pictures of archive material. Cool. Ink, I did finally figure out that evening how to turn off the sounds, fortunately! UD has co...
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Not of General Interest: June 2015
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Not of General Interest. Academics, teaching, books, technology, MOOC madness. Friday, June 26, 2015. A happy brief post: trifecta! SCOTUS upholds marriage equality! SCOTUS upholds the ACA! The CSA battle flag comes down in South Carolina and everywhere else! Links to this post. Tuesday, June 23, 2015. Back in 2011, Amazon announced with great fanfare that it was including page numbers, real page numbers, in its Kindle books. I was excited about it back then, too. Has that promise come to fruition? At le...
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Not of General Interest: Lessons from the archive III: monkish life
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Not of General Interest. Academics, teaching, books, technology, MOOC madness. Friday, June 19, 2009. Lessons from the archive III: monkish life. When I told people I'd be coming to Research City, they said things like, "I live right near there! Let's get together" or "I want to take you out to lunch.". But I didn't contact them, partly because of basic inertia, partly because I didn't want to take hours out of research time (how selfish is that? And, at lunch, "Do you have iced tea? I'm not here to figh...
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Not of General Interest: August 2015
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Not of General Interest. Academics, teaching, books, technology, MOOC madness. Friday, August 28, 2015. Secret messages I didn't send. Dear Facebook: I am so much happier now that I've gone cold turkey and given you up at least for the time being. Then some professional thing will drag me back in, like Michael Corleone, and you can go back to making me sad again. Lesson learned, I hope. Dear Morning Self: This is just a reminder that if you half-read something and fire off a measured and polite but stupi...
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Not of General Interest: Movie post: What I've learned
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Not of General Interest. Academics, teaching, books, technology, MOOC madness. Saturday, March 29, 2014. Movie post: What I've learned. I have nothing on my mind right now except writing (and have nothing new to say about that yet). And maybe you're as tired as I am of reading about leaning in and stepping up and taking charge and being a woman as ruthlessly efficient as this one. Perhaps the most poignant detail from Anne-Marie Slaughter's Atlantic cover story, " Why Women Still Can't Have It All. Not t...
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Not of General Interest: February 2015
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Not of General Interest. Academics, teaching, books, technology, MOOC madness. Friday, February 27, 2015. Groundhog Day: mid-career academic choices. This post is on a parallel but slightly different track from Notorious's post about " Choosing to Change Direction.". It's about the three stages of an academic life. Applying for jobs (and applying and applying and applying). Submitting abstracts and papers for conferences. Pouncing on every call for papers. Applying for travel funding and grants. Someone ...
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Not of General Interest: April 2015
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Not of General Interest. Academics, teaching, books, technology, MOOC madness. Sunday, April 26, 2015. Mad Men: Random Bullets of Time and Life. I didn't realize until tonight that Mad Men has been playing the long game of "false antagonist turned ally" versus "true antagonist." CGC is the temporary antagonist, but going back to Season 1, McCann has been the true antagonist, just waiting to overpower our Sterling Cooper partners with money. Kill them with kindness? How had he ruined her life? Speaking of...
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Not of General Interest: January 2015
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Not of General Interest. Academics, teaching, books, technology, MOOC madness. Friday, January 30, 2015. I was turned down for a grant recently and got the feedback. Basically, they liked the project but wanted to see more relevance to broader contemporary concerns. Although I view applying for grants as equivalent to spending 20 hours buying a Powerball ticket with about the same likelihood of success, I will probably apply again, and, yes, this time show my work. Links to this post. Links to this post.
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Not of General Interest: That's one small step for MLA, one giant leap for MLA-citers
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Not of General Interest. Academics, teaching, books, technology, MOOC madness. Tuesday, February 08, 2011. That's one small step for MLA, one giant leap for MLA-citers. Update on the quandary about using MLA format to cite from the Kindle. Ms Feal says the MLA is considering whether to "accommodate" location numbers on the Kindle. And may I also say "thanks"? But wait- there's more! This still doesn't get past the "it's harder to annotate an e-book" issue, because, well, it just is. Harder (says the pers...