Wednesday already?! Eek! Madness — this entire week has been, will be, is. Yesterday after the Glass Ceiling talk organized by the Women’s Initiative, I jumped in the car and headed down to Kingston for a reading of a new play at the Arts Society of Kingston. The play was on the life of Margaret…
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BitchBuzz: Exploding on the Internet
So, yeah — it’s a bit late. The column I usually send in on Wednesday to appear on Thursday was there, unsent, Thursday late. I would say I can’t believe I did that, but it’s all too believable with the hectic way things are. I take it as a reminder to slow down and pay…
BitchBuzz: The Internet Will Kill You
Crash bang wallop: it’s that kind of day. I thought I had already resigned myself to the fact that February will just be a dead run, but then I have to take another breath and realise I still need to run faster. That first week in March I will dissolve into a week of pure…
Margaret Atwood Speaks
No time for anything today! So I give you some cogent thoughts from Margaret Atwood at TOC. I followed this on Twitter yesterday in between things and it sounded as if — as usual — she had some smart things to say. Check out the conference site as there are all kinds of informative bits…
BitchBuzz: Should Writers Abandon Social Media?
Three guesses what I’m going to say — what’s that? You only need one? Yeah, go on then. Read it anyway: Should Writers Abandon Social Media? By K.A. Laity Is social media getting to be too much to manage? This week over at Publisher’s Weekly, Andrei Codrescu castigates the use of social networking as a complete waste…
Ironic
Today in the New Media class, we’re talking about blogging. I, however, have nothing to blog. Instead I already have a bunch of grading to do, teaching to prepare, schedules to finish working out for the rest of the semester (now incorporating visits by prospective new faculty — hurrah!), a proposal to get sent off…
BitchBuzz: Technology and Temperance + Jane Quiet
My column today springs from my annoyance with paternalistic colleagues who keep giving people the impression that academics are stuffy know-it-alls who pontificate from their position of privilege. I realise I can also be a bit unreasonable about it: on President’s Day a colleague in the midst of his “technology: bad” talk (thank goodness there…
Carrot & Stick
I have a favor to ask of you: it’s not really much and this time of year, you might be spending a lot of time in the particular location anyway. I have a birthday wish. I realise it’s a few weeks away yet, but you need some preparation time. The good news is that it…
BitchBuzz: Are We Getting Nicer?
Well now, don’t go getting your hopes up: it’s just my latest column — Is the World Becoming Nicer? (Probably not) People around the world watched and cheered as the Chilean miners were freed, one by one, from their underground prison. I was surprised to find my friends, normally hard-hearted cynics, dabbing away tears as…
BitchBuzz: The Social Network
My latest for which I cannibalize a bit of my review of The Social Network in order to make a different point, namely that women need to continue to squeeze their way into these clubs and make friends with the boys despite their resistance — oh, and have the skills to do so: The Social…