Not of General Interest

Even though we're all saying similar things, some information about job letters may bear repeating: When you write the letter, think ab...

In the spirit of offering a news-free zone, given all the gloom on the NYTimes and elsewhere, I offer an invention. When you buy vitamins, y...

I am still thinking about the second job letter post, but until then: From Inside Higher Ed: I’ll Take My Lecture to Go, Please ...

A few years back, a commenter making nominations for the Cobb Awards called Daily Kos " a big bowl of Angry Flakes that never runs out ...

News flash from The Chronicle : "Not all young people are tech-savvy" by Siva Vaidhyanathan. They aren't? You mean five year...

I try not to comment on politics here because those people on the sidebar, not to mention thousands of other blogs, say everything better, w...

I'm still thinking about the "art of the job letter" post I want to write, but in the "the medium is the message" ca...

If your message is "We buy houses for CASH $$$$ - Call 555-555-5555" and you post this message on a telephone pole on a torn scrap...

The MLA Job Information List goes live in about a week, and ABDs, new Ph.D.s, adjuncts, instructors, and tenure-track people looking to ...

Stolen shamelessly from The Blog of Henry David Thoreau : Saturday, September 06, 2008 Thoreau's Journal: 06-Sep-1841 ...

. . . you are answering and sending emails at a rate that resembles those scenes in old movie Westerns, when the bad guys shoot at the feet ...

School is back in session. I've been assigned some new things to do in addition to teaching, which means that, with the learning curve a...

This week, in the midst of a whole lot of other on-campus stuff, I did the book check. You know the book check: you go to the bookstore and ...

The Bittersweet Girl said that she would like to hear more about my garden, and, since I'm avoiding all thoughts academic right now, I ...

Over at Edge of the American West , there's a good post and comment thread about the kinds of things people keep on their desks to make ...

Yesterday morning at about 7 a.m., I was standing in the open garage trying to look helpful as the sprinkler repairman worked his magic on t...

Tenured Radical had a great post the other day called "Senior Scholars, This is Your Conscience Speaking" in which she tells us t...

From the Times Higher Education Supplement : Teaching a large first-year course at a British university, I am fed up with correcting my stud...

Instead of a wristwatch, why can't someone invent a time-telling tattoo? A temporary one would be better than a permanent one. It would...

This is an entirely irrational prejudice, but I hate autoresponse emails. You know: "I am out of the office until X and will reply to ...