Eat everything everywhere.

The printer is in the secretary's office. She serves the entire college, which is spread over 3 buildings.

We have a room in our building with 2 computers, a microwave, & a couch that got thrown out of the president's house when we got a new president.

Tags on scarves. They always end up front & center when I'm trying to make a cute outfit. Always.
Also, the noise electricity makes.

Sure! I teach ug classes in lit, race, gender-- mostly American literature. I can talk about Indigenous thought, slave narratives, chicane lit, lit & the environment... afrofuturism... bring me in to boost a novel you're reading....

Finished task 7.5 hrs after starting it. Home, read, cook, eat, get on zoom for meetings w #10-15. Talk to husband (#16), who shows me Old Glory Robot Insurance ad to soothe me, because Sam Watterson trying to keep a straight face is beautiful. Shower, sleep. Tuesday is my light day. #academicsky

Yesterday: got to my office at 8:30 & began a task. Then talked on zoom to person 1. Returned to task. Person 2 came to talk. Returned to task. Person 3 had an appt to talk. Lunch, & talked with persons 4-7, especially p6. Returned to office & original task. Person 8 came to talk; 9 joined us. 1/2

I grew up in Southern CA back before the EPA, & the smell of diesel exhaust makes me nostalgic. But it's true that everything was brown & we were warned not to play outside on smog alert days. I'm glad that's gone, but i fear it will return.

Maybe Lowe's (pronounced Lowe's in our house due to a kid) should stock ibuprofen next to the paint brushes for people who think, hey, the bathroom is the smallest room in the house! We can knock this out in a weekend!
(Tomorrow is day 4).

When I first moved here, I was confused by the ubiquity of the giant red S. I couldn't understand why so many folx were into Stanford, and discussed my confusion with the Wrong Person, a very proud State grad.

Oh, in NC, this is how people greet each other.

My mother, the queen of "you'd be so pretty if only...", offered to get my nose fixed as a HS grad gift.
I told her it was the same as hers, & if she didn't like it, she could have the surgery.
(Seriioously, before this, it had never occurred to me that my nose was in any way problematic).

They have been installing them like crazy here in NC, and I'm learning to love them.

Yeah, I'm not sure if that's better or worse. At my institution we've been told that we can have "faculty governance," but it's clear that admin isn't particularly interested in what faculty say or do (as long as no students complain).

Oh, I've thought about this a lot. If i could only pick one: A few years ago, a student wrote a project for me where he reimagined Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo in space, with Comala as a derelict space station. It would be so good.

I'm not sure that faculty governance is really thriving anywhere-- either admin backs you, or they don't. If they don't, they "can't talk about personnel issues for legal reasons."

You can't pass an assignment if you don't actually do the assignment. Turning in a paper that has nothing to do with the assignment doesn't earn a passing grade.

“ The daughter of a well known conservative operative , whose paper did not answer the topic at hand and had a carefully planned media campaign , had a trans instructor fired for grading a paper according to the agreed upon rubric”

Don't schedule medical tests for 24 December. Skip work & deal with that nonsense on a different day.
(This is the 2nd year in a row I've spent the day like this).

It's Oklahoma. Some probably agree. Also, it's academia; folks are generally afraid.

I dreamed I was presenting a conference paper on "syllabi as reconciling documents" & if anyone can tell me what I might have meant by that, I'd be grateful. #academicsky

Ha! As a racially-mixed person, all the whitefolx in my bloodline have only been in the US for about 3, maybe 4 generations, max. The ancestors that make them think I don't belong here? Time immemorial.

The search committee doesn't even read incomplete apps. They have enough complete apps to wade through as it is.

It's a lovely book.

I have interviewed candidates from fancy schools who have taught 1 MA seminar on their dissertation topic-- & I was hiring for a 4/4 all ugrad including 1st yr composition. Our workload would have killed them, poor dears. Give me a land grant PhD w 2-3 years jc work anyday.

Meanwhile, at my small, not particularly prestigious college, I am one of 3 women in a 9 person humanities division. The rest are white men. Get a grip, dude.

Is Lumbee recognition still in it?

Our pets always knew.

I'm an English professor-- mostly American literature.
"OH, I hate grammar. I'm so bad at English."