Archive for December, 2007
sites for composition: Sachsenhausen 1945, Yorkshire 1983, Berlin 2007
A few days or weeks before leaving for Europe I watched The History Boys (2006, imdb.com) a couple of times, a movie about a group of teenage boys in Yorkshire, England, in 1983, who are trying to pass their A-levels (I think) in order to get into Cambridge or Oxford. Because the school is mostly [...]
shakespeare and company
I sit outside Shakespeare and Company smoking a cigarette History: Shakespeare Whitman Nin1 Derrida If no place could make me love France it is here under Notre Dam that could To paraphrase: We have already said all we meant to say2 1 “And there by the Seine was the bookshop, not the same but similar [...]
spam no more?
A good two weeks ago, I was notified in my comments that I had spam in my blogroll again. I couldn’t do much since I was traveling in Germany and France (which was amazing!), but now that I’m resting in Spain at a friend’s house, I’ve upgraded and fixed something in my footer.php file, so [...]
tenure issues in Michigan
Sara sent me this link to a blog post about a tenure decision at U of Michigan involving Peter Hammer, who was denied tenure there and has decided to sue because he believes he was discriminated against because he identifies as gay. Blogger Dean Dad’s take: I don’t know Hammer or his work. Whether he [...]
the rhetoric of pink
I’m in my hotel in Frankfurt with pretty poor wireless connection stolen from elsewhere, but I thought I’d pass on this brief NY Times article about the use of pink in visiting football locker rooms as a psychological strategy at the University of Iowa. Via Eric Stoller, this Insider Higher Ed article about a law [...]
notes from the interblags: the I’m off to Europe edition
I have to clean out a few tabs before heading off for vacation. I leave in 40 minutes for San Francisco, and then tomorrow I’m flying to Europe! I can hardly believe it; I’ve never been, so this should be a fun and eye-widening experience. But here’s a few things I’ve been meaning to read [...]
grades: done
I just submitted my grades for all four sections of my class. Upon reflection, I think I was too soft grade-wise throughout the term, and offered a bit too much extra credit at one point. However, it’s been a wonderful term, and I had some amazing students in my class who seemed to enjoy the [...]
onward!
Grading now completed for two out of four classes. Second PhD application about to go into the mail. Onward!
one class down
three to go. man, this is a lot of reading. and the same week that I need to finish three more applications to PhD programs.
ETS: Soul-less and antiquated
First of all, I think standardized test-taking is ridiculous and a silly requirement for graduate school. But to add to this: Rather than taking 5 minutes maximum to fill out a webform to send my GRE scores off to institutions, I had to spend 12 minutes on the phone punching in numbers, confirming those numbers [...]
