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Best-laid plans aft gang agly and other meeting war stories
My semester has gone fairly well thus far with my attempting to spend an hour or two Sunday evening or early Monday getting everything out of my head and then sorting through my several-hundred-item task list for the highest-priority items for the week in various categories. That was one tweak of my internal attempts at […]
Overbusy
Sorry for the lack of entries recently—my professional life has just become crazy-busy (and more than usual). I’m keeping my head above water, not a problem with that, but some things will drop off as priorities shift. And I love blogging, but there are only 30 hours in the day. Or something like that.
Narrators of academic and political life
To new scholars hired into academic jobs: Remember that your colleagues are unreliable narrators. That doesn’t mean that they are necessarily vicious, mean, backstabbing folks (and I hope you don’t run into those types, because they unfortunately exist). I mean that people to whom you look for advice on institutional morays have their own sets […]
I blame Bob Mondello
My family loves me. After all, I’m still alive after they came with me to Half Nelson, which I asked for since Bob Mondello gave it a positive review in August. It didn’t open in Tampa, so we had to wait until it came here this week at the Tampa Theatre. (Warning: movie spoiler ahead.) Mondello’s […]
MOO if you love Shakespeare
By Sherman Dorn on October 21, 2006
The Synthetic Worlds Institute at Indiana University is apparently building Arden, a virtual world based on Shakespeare’s works, thanks to the MacArthur Foundation. See the IU news release about it. All the [virtual] world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players. (As You Like It, II, vii) (Hat tip: kip-w.)
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