I need to practice my French!
I haven't told many people this, but I'm just too excited to hold it in much longer. It looks like my paper was accepted for the Jacobite Studies Trust conference in July!This is big. Huge. ENORMOUS. I...
View ArticleWhat now?
I just realized my lesson plans for the week are all done. Friday's exam is at the printer. I don't have anything to do for the upcoming week and it's only Saturday. I'm often finishing lesson plans...
View ArticleBlindsided by faith
Let me preface this post by saying that I am a terrible Catholic. The last time I went to Mass was in Edinburgh a few years ago, on a whim, when I found a cute church and weekday Mass was just about to...
View ArticleWriting Group Week 7: distracted living
Something interesting popped up on Twitter today that changed what I wanted to talk about this week. Evidently, a professor is claiming that sleep-texting is becoming an issue. Mind you, there haven't...
View ArticleCrisis of Confidence
Yesterday was a bad day. It was one of those days where fear and anxiety wrap themselves around you, creating a cocoon of self-doubt that seems impossible to break. I basically spent the entire day on...
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February Sucks
I basically lost my job yesterday. I can't find it, but I thought I'd written something on here somewhere about possibly teaching this summer because the school is making a push for core requirement...
View ArticleWriting Group Week 9
Welcome back, everyone! I have had a wretched week and, in addition, am battling to keep my voice because I've come down with a stupid cold. After barely making it through class on Wednesday, I decided...
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The Philadelphia Flower Show - When "British" is Anything But British
I went to the Philadelphia Flower Show Tuesday for the first time since I was a little kid. It's supposedly the largest indoor flower show in the world and I've wanted to go for the past few years...
View ArticleIt's a cruel, cruel world
Yesterday I sent this email to a friend:"I'm on Spring Break! I couldn't be more ready for it, too. I've been desperate for a break. Yesterday, before class, I was thinking about Friday's upcoming...
View ArticleWriting Group Week 10
Hello, everyone! I just went to check in and there was nowhere to check in, so I'm thinking JaneB must be even more sick than I am. If you follow her blog, you'll know she's been struggling. I'll post...
View ArticleDeath Break
Oh my god. I am dying. I really think I am. I alternate between freezing cold and breaking out in a sweat. All of the dogs want to lay on me, as if, in doing so, they will magically cure me, or at...
View ArticleBooks, books, books
Erm. I think I set a resolution to read a book a week this year because I may have only read ten or so books for fun in the past five years of my dissertating life. This is week eleven, I think, of the...
View ArticleWriting Group Week 12 - Productivity Hammer
It's Week 12 already. How, HOW, did that happen?I'm not going to lie, I'm really worried about my dissertation. A lot has happened this semester and I let it come between me and my writing. It's my...
View ArticleTime bomb
Apologies to the writing group members expecting to get straight to the writing group post. Just click on the link at the right to go straight to Week 12 or scroll down. I normally try not to post over...
View ArticleAca-what???
Yesterday Inside Higher Ed posted two pieces particularly relevant to my life right now. The first was on counting adjunct hours for the Affordable Care Act; the other was on the unethical treatment of...
View ArticleTeaching torment
Teaching today was something. I got to school and saw that my office had been "flocked." Every semester, there's a fundraiser where students can pay $3 and a professor's door will get covered in cute...
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Week 14: Rounding Third
Forgive the baseball analogy, but it's that time of year and not a minute too soon. Go Yankees!Now that that's out of the way, in all seriousness, we are quickly coming to the end of this writing...
View ArticleEnough is Enough is Enough
Have you heard the latest rape news? It happened in Canada, so you may not have, but here's a link to the story of Rehtaeh Parsons, a 17 year-old girl whose family just took her off life support three...
View ArticleGot FOMO?
This is my life. There is no escaping FOMO for me. Either I am the one with FOMO, constantly checking emails, Twitter, and Facebook, not to mention texts, or someone I am with someone who has FOMO and...
View ArticleTeaching Torments and Triumphs
Today I had a conversation with a student that felt more like a confrontation. I was actually shaking after the student left the office, but I'm not sure if it was out of fear or rage or both. Both, I...
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