I often assume very few people are reading this blog. I realize any of my students might, as might any person who meets me somewhere and takes a business card. It’s not like it’s hidden.[…]
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Day 285: Of dreams and pasts and odd remembrances
I’ve been sick for over a month. It sucks. I’m not going to sugar coat that. I’m at the point now where I think it’s bounced all around my upper skull and is now settling[…]
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Day 284: Like Suicide
Working in academia, and having gone through graduate education, I’m no stranger to people claiming to feel suicidal. If you, dear reader, do feel suicidal, that impulse itself is okay (it’s a bummer, but it’s[…]
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Day 283: The Rise and Fall of the Beta Male
The term “beta male” has always amused me. I am, by other people’s definitions, a “beta male.” Here’s a really suspect website’s definition of it that will give you a good chuckle. I particularly love[…]
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Day 282: The world after personal responsibility
I’m dealing with some weird situations with students lately. One motif I see emerging, though, is that there’s a new (meaning in the last couple of years) is a lack of personal responsibility among students.[…]
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Day 281: On Halloween: realizing I was Silent Bob before there was a Silent Bob
When I was in the seventh grade, in 1989, I was a huge fan of the Joker. I had been, my whole life, but that year I actually asked for a trench coat because I[…]
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Day 280: Listen
Today I want to return to an old rant of mine. I’ve told people before about the cultural oddity that I experience in academia being Cherokee. As a people– a proud people :P– we don’t[…]
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Day 279: Burnout
A few months ago, a student asked me how I keep from burning out on my academic work. This student, a senior, was trying to figure out how to finish out an academic career, and[…]
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Day 278: One more WWE texture parade
The half-skull I made didn’t come out bad, but I realized once I saw it in game that what I really wanted was a half skull that was split vertically. So here’s part 3 of[…]
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Day 277: The Hillary news today and a rant
I have struggled for a while to express to other liberal-minded people the problems I had with Hillary Clinton. I know it often gets conflated with issues of gender politics. It was never, even for[…]
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