Not of General Interest

Some days are like that. You start with deadline-driven admin or service tasks and by the time you look up, 12 or 14 or so bleary-eyed hours...

I'm going through the manuscript and writing short pieces and making edits.  The notes and citations are for another day and another hea...

Over at the Chronicle, Julie Miller Vick and Jennifer Furlong say something that has long needed to be said: "You don't have to lov...

Last week I had lunch with the Colleague from Another Place Who Keeps Me Sane (Colleague for short). We got to talking about how hard it has...

No retrospective, no words of wisdom, because I'm trying to get stuff done--but I couldn't let the day pass without noting, for the ...

I've been reading Claire Potter's posts about writing in chunks, a method that makes a lot of sense. The manuscript I'm working ...

If this doesn't make you wince, read it again.  Yes, we knew a while back that there'd be no credit for you in a MOOC if you're...

I've been intrigued by Claire Potter/Tenured Radical's two posts about writing in public and Historiann's recent roundup menti...

Today is Martin Luther King Day.  Among other things we need to remember on this day is that the whole controversy over establishing it, mo...

ADM has the best response to the jobs crisis: it's not a discipline issue but a labor issue.   http://anotherdamnedmedievalist.wordpre...

Dr. Virago and Miriam Burstein have posts up about Michael Berube's public Facebook post suggesting the end of the MLA conference inter...

Julian Fellowes ( Gosford Park, Downton Abbey ) on Writing “I think a lot in bed at night. When I wake up, I never try to get back to s...

Happy New Year, everyone! I don't want to reflect on this year (too little done on the Laocoon manuscript , for one thing), but here are...

Bardiac  very reasonably asks whether the job situation is worse now than it used to be.   I don't have the answer, but the MLA does:...

I hope Christmas and all holidays were and are peaceful, restful, and happy.

Wow. Ignore the interwebs for a week or so and they blow up with a new issue.  Who'd have thought it? Recently, Rebecca Schuman (you k...

1. You know how people are always warned to make hard-to-crack passwords and end up using "password" or "12345678" or ...

Aren't we all keeping the plates spinning about now, just trying to get through grading papers, or calculating grades, or turning in gra...

Historiann , Dr. Crazy , Belle , and What Now are being thankful for/expressing gratitude at this appropriate season, and so will I, knockin...

I can't stop thinking about something that Historiann said in her comments section in the post on "Death of an Adjunct": Ten...