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Your next faculty meeting
Profgrrrrl has an absolutely dead-on description of a common faculty meeting dialogue structure. It definitely brought a grin to my face this morning.
You know your server’s spam filter needs adjusting…
… when 90% of your e-mail on a Friday evening is spam. Usually, the tech gurus at my college require a few hours the next business morning to reconfigure the spam filters, but whatever the spammers did new happened on a Friday afternoon. Very smart, spammers. Very annoying.
Performative masculinity, or not, in academe
I’m not like Timothy Burke or even Michael Bérubé in the whole performativity of gender in academe thing, or as the case may be, performative masculinity in extracurricular activities through using chainsaws or at least renting them out in a chivalrous gesture before giving up and calling the tree folks (and here I mean the […]
Academics on notice
Look who’s on notice with Stephen Colbert: (Yes, you can generate your own “on notice” board. Fred Block? Nice guy. Doesn’t deserve to be on notice at all.)
Did I really say that? and other interactions with journalists
By Sherman Dorn on September 7, 2006
This morning, I was quoted in a local newspaper article on our school district calendar as saying, “There was much kind of grumbling on the committee about those options.” Much kind of?? Someone please remind me to write everything down before I respond to off-the-cuff questions of a journalist. Peter Jennings I’m obviously not. Marilyn […]
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