I don’t know what you, folks, did today but I’ve been working on my book from 8 am to 3 pm with breaks for breakfast, tweets and posts. The result is 520 words added to the book.
The way my brain works, I need to interrupt the flow every 15 minutes or so by switching to a different language or medium. Otherwise, no writing happens.
Now I will read (writing a book requires a lot of reading) for an hour, and at 4 pm family time starts. N and I will be doing a barbecue and then taking a long walk around the neighborhood. After that, we will light the fireplace and discuss, for the bizillionth time, how cute our first date was. It’s ridiculous how people in love never tire of narrating these really trivial stories to each other for years and decades.
In other news, I just looked out of the window and saw the ondatra swimming in the clear waters of the Ondatra Creek. It is beyond cool that I can see it from the window of my home office.
The Russian news announced that Putin just met with Nicolás Maduro and showed a photo of. . . Hugo Chávez. If it’s true that Putin met Chávez today, that’s cause to celebrate.
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There really is nothing better than being a professor. With all my frustrations, I can’t imagine anything else suiting me as well. I truly love what I do. 🙂
I hope the Rauners and Walkers of the world don’t destroy the tenure track/tenured professor as an option. Our (meaning me and yours) generation will be fine. But it makes me sad to think that it’s possible that my little niece (who is very bookish) won’t even have this career as an option for her. I hope that we don’t represent the end of a profession. What a sad thing it will be.
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I agree, there’s nothing better.
The profession will not disappear. But my prediction is that it will go back to what it always was: a tiny minority thing. And that development will be on Rauners and Walkers only to a point. I believe that we, the scholars, did not use this massification stage the way we should have. But that’s a whole other discussion.
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“I hope that we don’t represent the end of a profession. What a sad thing it will be.”
Sad, indeed. And not just for us, but for the whole of humanity. in my opinion.
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