It’s Shrove Tuesday — where are my pamcakes?! I shouldn’t have a Tuesday that’s this crazy but I do, so forgive the brevity of this post. Monday was a whirlwind, too, but that’s kind of expected. This morning I woke up to an email with a contract for the short story “Lachrymae Draconis” and in…
Category: stress
Mondays Sometimes Require…
Reminding myself the semester is almost over, then will come the time to actually catch up…
In Case You’re Wondering
This is what a tenure package looks like; this is actually Kim’s (who had loaned me hers as a model) because I only remembered that I was going to take a picture of it after I had turned it in. More or less like mine, though the tabbing is far neater. It contains the letter…
Consummatum est
The tenure package has been submitted. Hallelujah. Now the five month or so wait…
Assessment
I dislike being assessed. Being judged and evaluated, measured against some abstract scale, always makes me resentful. I have my own measures of success and have no interest in conforming to anyone else’s opinions of what is valuable. Of course, when you choose to become part of academia, it’s a non-stop parade of evaluation. As…
Midpoint
I’m midway through the most stressful month of my academic career, so this is why I have been a little neglectful of the blog (though I’ve been on Facebook and Twitter plenty). I wish I could be as relaxed as Kipper, but in between teaching my classes (including a grad class and a team-taught course)…
Back to School
Yes, the dread day has rolled around again — the beginning of the semester. I’m half joking, of course. It’s always good once it starts, but there’s always so much nervousness about the semester before it starts — how will the classes be? how will I be? have I lost my touch? Add to the…
Self-Reliance
“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his…
Horror!
No, not just for the number of emails in my inbox (although that is horrifyingly substantial!) but because I begin the summer intensive course on horror film. First feature today: “Bride of Frankenstein”! Isn’t this a lovely photo of Lanchester?! Along with a lot of the Universals I’ll have a few other things to show…
Crazy Haste
The next interview will be up later today; naturally, I have all the interviews at home while I’m here on campus and running like mad today, because I plan to head down to Bard to hear Liz Hand read between my classes. I will be announcing a new writing gig later this week. I just…