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Tag Archives: Teaching
On Entertaining Through Teaching (or the Other Way Around)
No one ever wants to take a composition class. That’s the first hurdle in teaching I always faced – convincing the students that they actually want to be in the class they find themselves forced, by the college, to take. … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
Tagged A Year of Living Bloggily, Experiments Recorded, Teaching, Writing
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On Reviewing a Class on Reviews
First, this premise: Reviews are a genre. Most people tend to think of reviews as a discrete and specific form that really only has one product: the review. Whether it’s a movie, book, play, music, or restaurant, the review has … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
Tagged A Year of Living Bloggily, Experimental Reviews, Teaching, Writing
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On Selling Yourself… Oneself… Myself?
Hunting season for academics begins in the middle of September. Universities post their requirements for what kind of meat they need to fill their seats, and said meat, in a stark reversal of normal hunting policies, shotguns applications at the … Continue reading
Yelling in another language is a rose is a rose is a rose
I have officially given up hope on replies regarding any of my interviews. Which means my hopeful bent for a job in the upcoming year has been unbent. I still have a number of applications out there, and have three … Continue reading
Posted in Roderick Random
Tagged Experiments Societal, Experiments Traveling, Teaching, Writing
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Polish Language Lesson Trzynascie
PotrzebujÄ™ koperti. = I need envelopes. I haven’t used this phrase yet. When I’ve gone to the post office (Poczty GÅ‚owny) so far (technically, that’s how you say the Main Post Office) I’ve used English, because I feel horribly embarrassed … Continue reading
Posted in Living, Music, Writing
Tagged Laurie Anderson, Linguistic Experiments: Non-fiction, Poland, Teaching
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Three weeks in the City, living it up!!! AAAAAAAAAARGH!
There are homeless everywhere. [Editor’s Note: The author means everywhere in the world, not everywhere in Kraków. Clearly. Don’t get angry at me, Krakovians, get angry at the writer’s poor command of context.] Okay, maybe he wasn’t homeless. Maybe they … Continue reading
Posted in Living, Writing
Tagged Experiments Ocular, Experiments Societal, Teaching, Writing
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Sickity. Sickity. Sick.
If I hadn’t gotten rid of the picture of Jeoffrey curled in my bed, that’s the picture I would’ve used. Last night I went to sleep early, felt like I was burning in my sheets, and the only reason I’m … Continue reading
“I think that anyone would run from you”
That may be a bastardization of a Vanessa Peters’ song (“Marathon” from Mirabilandia), and so I apologize, Vanessa. I take all responsibility. I don’t take all responsibility for what my front bottom teeth are doing. Apparently they’re slow-dancing a tango. … Continue reading
Annoyances
Read this! Go forth, and conquer! Or read! Read and conquer! Read about conquering! I put the link to a review I wrote above because it was gone from the main page in about a day from the website I … Continue reading
Posted in Reading, Writing
Tagged Blogging Blogs, Don Hertzfeldt, H. P. Lovecraft, Reviews, RevolutionSF, Teaching, What I'm Reading
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Get this
So, after a long night of little sleep (must’ve woken up twenty times during the night, anxious over the meeting today) I teach (perhaps the best classes of the semester, stress from last night pushing me into ultra-preparedness) and then … Continue reading