1. New College in Florida is dismantling its Gender Studies program, and West Virginia University is carrying out the draconian cuts promised in this article from June. It's behind a paywall, so I can't see it, but the board doesn't care if it destroys the university.
2. Nicole and Maggie have resurrected the "life after tenure" meme from 2013 and aww, nostalgia. Here
s what I said then: https://notofgeneralinterest.blogspot.com/2013/04/life-after-tenure.html
Short version: pretty much the same, with more job security. Here are a few more posts about it.
3. Xykademiqz is coming out with a book!
4. I'm once again summoning the spirit of the dog my family had when I was a child:
Our family used to have a dog that did this: If she didn't want to acknowledge the presence of something she was afraid of, like a cat or something she'd chewed up and knew she'd get in trouble for, she wouldn't look directly at whatever it was but would turn away and look at it out of the corner of her eye.
I am that dog, and the semester is what I'm seeing out of the corner of my eye.
5. It's like living in a science fiction novel, being the last person on God's green academic earth not to be away vacationing somewhere and sending autoreplies in response to my responses to their queries. What did I do? I set one up myself, a perfectly polite one. Only you and I know that its secret message comes straight from my inner Logan Roy.
6. This seems to be a lesson that I have to keep failing at learning over and over again: if you respond too quickly, or include an answer both to A (what they asked) and to B (the next logical step), it's all so many electrons wasted in the ether. Your reward may be to be ignored, or, worse, lectured about it. I've posted before about imaginary cranky responses to email, but maybe the autoreply and an information diet for the requesters is a much better response.
7. But it's still summer for a few weeks yet. Walking in some glorious cool weather, eating ripe tomatoes, watching the bees in the lavender and bee balm--all are there to be enjoyed now.
P.S. I haven't seen Barbenheimer (as xykademiqz posted about), but the new season of What We Do in the Shadows has a scene with the energy vampire council that made me fall off the couch with laughter. It's every Zoom meeting ever. Context: energy vampires feed on the negative emotions of others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ThLeM1Bu9k
5 comments:
It ain't over till it's over!
Thanks for the link!
I've been teaching all summer and just finished! Now a week of vacay and then back to the grind again. 😩 I have teaching overload in the fall, so it's gonna be a clusterfuck all the way through the spring.
I have sent out a short-story collection to indie presses (assembled while procrastinating on my academic-essay collection 😁) and the novel is still with various agents and smaller publishers. The sequel to Academaze is almost ready and it will be pretty cool! Less didactic (how to do the job), more centered around various types of conflict that plague academic careers.
My novel got picked up!!! I just wanted to share with someone.
It will come out with a small but reliable genre publisher. I'm very excited! *happy dance*
Congratulations, xykademiqz! That's exciting news!
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