Headaches

I woke up this morning with this song running through my head.  Clearly my subconscious was trying to tell me something, because I don’t remember the last time I actually listened to it.  But so yeah, this is pretty much how I’m feeling with six weeks of the semester done.  In a nutshell, I am [...]

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Grumble

So I had this fantasy of painting my bathroom this weekend.  I have all the things I need, and I like painting.  BUT.  Before I can paint I need to a) remove a towel bar that the fool who owned the house before me put up above the freaking toilet.  Now, I’m sorry, but that [...]

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In Which I Sort of Hate My Department

Ok, so you know the news I got yesterday?  Well, like a dutiful department citizen, I sent an announcement to the person who announces whenever a faculty member has a faculty accomplishment.  I then realized that person wasn’t going to be around, and forwarded the announcement along to my chair. Person #1 (the announcer) did [...]

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AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH

A wise woman would not be blogging right now.  She would be grading.  Because she has approximately 7.3 trillion things that she must grade, and problematically, she has not graded them. Lest you think that she has not graded them because she accomplished the writing that she needed to accomplish, I do think that I [...]

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Venting

It is not my job to educate my colleagues (who have been at this university as long as I have or longer) about how colleagial governance works.  It is not my job to teach my motherfucking colleagues how to do their jobs.  It is not my job to hold incompetent idiots hands so that they [...]

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Tell Them to Look for Me Buried Beneath a Giant Pile of Paper….

And surrounded by books about violence, trauma, abjection, and the mundane features of everyday life. Oh, and also they should notice that my email is out of control, and that the only thing that brings even the tiniest smile to my face is a movie about the atrocities of war that I’m teaching in one [...]

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AAARRRGGGHHH

Edited to describe how little is possible in the course of a day….   I have a lot of things to do.  Like, I’m not sure how I’m going to get them all done.  In fact, I’m pretty sure I probably won’t get them all done, but I think this may just be something that [...]

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As If I Needed Another Reason….

Ok, you all know that I’m ticked off about the new MLA dates.  As if I needed yet another reason to be ticked off about them, I learned today that one of my classes is in danger of being canceled.  Now, in these times, this is not a totally uncommon thing – for a class [...]

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Defining Moment

Prompt: Defining moment. Describe a defining moment or series of events that has affected your life this year. I’m sick of all these “moment” posts.  Individually?  They are fine.  Taken together, it’s like I’m writing on the same prompt every three days. Also I’m grumpy.  I have less than one week left of sabbatical, and [...]

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Stress

I have been awake for about the past 45 minutes and finally accepted that the idea of going back to sleep was some sort of fantasy that just wasn’t going to happen.  I am losing it people.  Losing.  It. Now, you might be wondering why, exactly, I’m losing it, why I’m sleepless with the stress, [...]

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