Not of General Interest

After yesterday, when I did not do one scrap of writing (Thanksgiving, yes, but if I had time for a Godfather marathon with family, I had ti...

Xykademiqz has a good post and cartoon up about how teaching is valued at a research university (hint: aim for "decent") and What...

This is really in nicoleandmaggie' s wheelhouse, not mine, but here goes. It's more of a link roundup than a post with a point. T...

I read one time--okay, lots of times--that since the key to establishing a successful routine is to get into a habit, like writing,  the fli...

I'm sitting in an airport and I can smell bread baking.  Who bakes bread in an airport? Subway? It doesn't matter. It smells great e...

I've written a bunch of posts full of advice about the job letter , and I don't want to repeat myself so this will be short. As fa...

It's grading season--wait, it's always grading season, isn't it?--and as the papers come flooding in, it's inevitable that w...

The Mac OS updated itself today, and in addition to making all the icons look like international traffic signs, it's messing with things...

I want to reply to Historiann's challenge, but first a post about writing. From The Guardian, a window into Winston Churchill's me...

I'm close enough to the end, or I'm deluding myself I'm close enough to the end, of this manuscript to start compiling the Works...

I'm not writing here much lately because, in looking at CHE and IHE and ChronicleVitae, I feel as though I've seen these issues befo...

Dear Ms. Undine, Ms. Mentor calls October "exploding head month" because of all the grant applications due then.  A whole lot ...

Dean Dad has an interesting post about artists and the advice being given to them: --> But where some variation of “follow y...

It's that time in the semester when it's late enough to see how the trajectory of meetings, classes, admin, etc., is going to go but...

*Poofed* part of this because it was entirely too cranky, even for me. Historiann's lovely writing space , which inspired me to clean ...

This article at Slate ( originally from IHE )  describes the experience of a professor at Salem State who banned student emails. The good...

Dear Ms. Undine, In between admin, prepping classes, meeting, and still trying to keep some time for writing, I take out a few minutes...

I hope they're going to like the class. I worked hard on the syllabus and readings. I don't do much more the first day than expl...

Flavia has good a post up about a book that she read and that, quoting Dorothy Parker, she says she wants to hurl with great force out of h...

Dear Ms. Undine, From Shutterstock Someone just wrote a book that is entirely composed of tweets about writing a book . People post ab...