Not of General Interest

Dear Ms. Undine, IHE recently reported that colleges in Michigan are outsourcing their hiring of adjuncts to something called EDUStaff....

Yes, it's another writing post. Jonathan links to a post called "How I Wrote Certain of my Books," which is inspirational ...

I plan to leave out cookies and milk to catch the evil troll who rolls back the progress on my manuscript every night. I toil over it all d...

While working endlessly on this book, I keep fantasizing about the books I would write if I weren't, you know, writing a book. When I...

The nice thing about Twitter is that if someone says something monumentally stupid with a very self-satisfied air, you can just stop follow...

At Chronicle Vitae , a select group of STEM faculty are giving the profession the Marie Antoinette* treatment by responding to the jobs cri...

We've heard a lot of non-apology apologies over the past couple of decades, from the Gulf oil spill "it'll never happen--oh, wa...

Dear Ms. Undine, All the academics I know on Facebook are on vacation or hiking in the mountains or traveling in Europe, having a fabulo...

Apparently I am thoroughly sick of writing about academic topics this summer, so let's talk, or link to articles about, brains--sweet, n...

Still not ready to write a real post, but after Spouse patiently listened to another of my dreams, he offered this: "You know, in talki...

It's the phrase you love to hear, because it means that someone is paying attention to the infernal manuscript, and the phrase that, nex...

--> Apparently my reading for pleasure these days involves revisiting some of the twentieth-century writers, the Mid-Century Ma...

All the writing energy is going into the endless project, except that I'm now excited about it.  I sent two pieces of it this week so...

If you wake up naturally at 4:30 a.m., consider that the summer's early light is telling you something. You can get a lot done of writ...

A conference, some deadlines, more travel, a hectic week, and then some more deadlines.  News I thought about writing about but didn't: ...

Summer has started, and so have the deadlines, some missed already and some for things due immediately.  That may be why my dreams are all a...

Karen Kelsky, of The Professor is In, shares a success story of a student who had a 5-year plan in graduate school and is now about to win ...

"Don't worry. It's not symbolic." "No. It's quite literal." I treated myself to Mad Men non-HD from iTune...

From The New Yorker :  Krugman took Milanovic’s hand and apologized for suggesting, in  The   New York Review of Books , that Piketty was...

Walking really does help you to be more creative , even if the source of the information is HuffPo. For inspiration and productivity, you ...