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Day 324: Learning to Live with What you Are

December 14, 2017December 14, 2017 phillmemoir

There’s a Ben Folds lyric that goes: Sometimes Everything you’ve ever wanted Floats above He’s sticking out his tongue and laughing While everything Anyone can ever need Is down below Waiting for you To know[…]

Day 323: Owning our flaws

December 13, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

I had a pretty busy, relatively eventful day at work. A small thing, though, reminded me that if I want to claim to being transparent, and claim to be building toward being a better person,[…]

Day 322: Just a Memory

December 12, 2017 phillmemoir

I skipped one class in my college career. It was an exam period, and I convinced the professor to let me take the exam early. But I skipped class because a friend of mine had[…]

Day 321: Doctor, Director, Consultant,Husband

December 11, 2017 phillmemoir

I read this quote today that made me stop and chuckle. It was someone’s “shower thought” on Reddit: When your gpa is too low, it’s an indicator that you’re not going to be good at[…]

Day 319: Leaving a Scene

December 9, 2017 phillgames

We often talk about fandoms in academia, or “communities.” We also like to catalog how they form and how some essentially die. What we haven’t looked at much at is migration. What happens when a[…]

Day 317: Why do people take a class with the word “writing” in the title when they don’t want to write?

December 7, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

A story, one that happens all too often. Actually, more like a dialogue. Mine has changed. New version after the old version. “So what do you do?” “Me? I’m a professor.”* “What do you teach?”[…]

Day 315: A working class hero is something to be

December 5, 2017 phillmemoir

If you happened to cruise past my place around 1 pm today, you’d have seen me in the front yard, in a Super Mario t-shirt, shorts and flip-flops, blowing leaves down into a pile at[…]

Day 312: Institutional Biases and Skype

December 1, 2017December 2, 2017 phillmemoir

The other day, I had someone ask for advice about Skype interviews. I consider myself a sort of de facto expert on the Skype interview, as I’ve done several. I personally don’t like them. I[…]

Day 305: Black Friday

November 24, 2017 phillbizarre motivational Phill

Just a short story today. In 1995, I worked at Wal-Mart for the Black Friday opening. We opened the doors to the store at 6 am, which was insanely early for that era but is[…]

Day 304: What I'm Thankful For

November 24, 2017 phillmemoir

To start, the sincere part. This year, as has been true every year for as long as it matters, I’m endlessly thankful for my family– my wife, my mom, our four crazy little furry kids–[…]