So. My boss and I are fighting over something that I thought was pretty clear when she hired me. I don't work Sundays. Ever. For religious reasons. This has been clear for the last eight months, but now she's decided that "one in eight months isn't so bad" and has scheduled me for a Sunday in early July ( Read more... )

I've been thinking, lately, about cultural capital. And things that parents at my schools just seemed to know, which I kindof assumed were par for the course, and apparently aren't ( Read more... )

So, my friend Emily is getting married this weekend. And this is a post full of reasons why she is fabulous. Which, perhaps surprisingly have very little to do with her ( Read more... )

So, I'm officially done my first semester of teaching. I tell you, it's a little bit odd to watch the room empty at the end of a final... like you'd never been there, and nothing in the space marks your passage. It's... oddly contemplative ( Read more... )

So, I was called to the courthouse for jury duty today... I sat about for a few hours while they chose a bunch of other people to be the jury. (I didn't even get selected by lot and then declined ( Read more... )

Remarking, at 2pm, that the cat sleeps like a 2 year old, sprawled out in whatever uncomfortable-looking position, but sleeping for hours on end. 11am today ( Read more... )

Teaching has... been really interesting. I mean, there are lots of stories from classes that I could talk about, but that's... not really what's been on my mind. For one of my classes, I had to read about and then teach feminist theories of body modifications - the sort of thing that says 'body modification includes diets and exercise, and is a way ( Read more... )

So, I'm skiing. In the mountains. For the first time. And, for the most part, the weather is gorgeous (though, regrettably, there's no fresh snow), it's been beautiful, I've got enough warm clothes, and I 'was' doing well enough on the runs we did yesterday. And then, there's this blue run. Which was.... 'fast' but okay, for the most part (for ( Read more... )

I started 'teaching' today. (In the manner of university courses, the first day is really just going over the outline, talking about 'don't plagarise', and hoping to get SOME kind of introductions done so you have some basis for asking them to repeat their names later, until you know them all ( Read more... )

(And truly, I have found very few things that I don't like about the one I'm in... besides this minor thing, there's only really the "he is forever too far away ( Read more... )