Archive for September 2011 | Monthly archive page
Kind of delighted to discover that an inchworm snagged a ride back from lunch on my sweater http://t.co/wBGcjOGX # Sometimes I get invited to the coolest academic events! Poison, experimental cocktails, and speakeasy NYC at USC: http://t.co/pn4SIgyf # This piece keeps running through my mind bc it runs counter to so much of the advice [...]
Last night I worked a bit late and thought I would step out of my office to find a quiet office suite. Instead, in the fishbowl conference room in the middle of our floor, a Professor led a class lecture about Quantum Mechanics (because of the space ‘crunch’ at our university, even the administrative conference [...]
Lately, many of my friends have been discussing sexuality, specifically how the LDS church approaches the topic (with many rules/strictures/punishments) or how feminists approach it (with openness, but concern about the subjectification of women). It’s a complicated topic, one that deserves a lot of thought and scrutiny. I’ve found that the guidelines offered by Friends [...]
Yesterday, I spent the afternoon in the shadow of the Mormon temple where I married nearly 20 years ago and where, after that, I returned almost-weekly to perform ritual ordinances. I had some time to think about that place and what it meant to me then, to think about the areas of that building where [...]
Lately I’ve been thinking about my priorities and goals and focus (or occasional lack thereof of all three things). This poem resonated with me on many levels because of that, and because of the ever-present gnawing insecurity that I’m just not good enough or committed enough to see my projects through to completion. An excerpt [...]
Though I like living in a house for so many reasons, the part I suck at the most is remembering to put the trash & recycling cans out on a certain morning each week. More than once I’ve simply loaded it all up and taken it back to the dumpster/recycler in the parking lot where [...]
Who stole my comfortable bohemian future? http://t.co/7M6ZvZOX #zocalo # Wanted to give a shout-out to @boone's comment on my Blackboard post–it's worth a look: http://t.co/QtdP85rM # RT @nmhouston @brainpicker: 1969 called, wants its bigotry back – YA authors asked to "straighten" gay characters http://j.mp/qYuh9D # Alternatives to Blackboard on @ProfHacker: http://t.co/thmhfOgm # I think my [...]
A friend reminded me of this quote yesterday. It was nice to re-visit it and reflect about how its meaning has changed for me this past year… “You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover [...]
There’s this fetish out there where some people are turned on sexually by amputees. It’s called apotemnophilia. Some of the folks who have this condition desire amputees sexually and some want to be amputees themselves. To be honest, I don’t understand either proclivity. However, I will say that over the years I’ve met some perfectly [...]
This morning I received a message from my university’s career center informing me that they now subscribe to a pay-for service called “The Versatile PhD” which has: * Examples of successful resumes and cover letters that real PhDs and ABDs used to get their first post-academic positions * A collection of first-person narratives written by [...]
I love the work this dancing does with the morning routines of gendered dressing. There’s an undercurrent of violence and intimacy to the patterns that develop through the piece–so powerful. Now that I ‘dress’ each day for work (rather than defaulting to my ‘Mom’ uniform of jeans and a tshirt), I give clothing much more [...]
This post is written in reply to Boone Gorges’ post about Blackboard (although I agree with his distaste for the platform, I support it at my university and this is why) : One of the biggest parts of my job is to support faculty in their use of Blackboard, a proprietary “course-management” software that instructors [...]
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