Thanksgiving weekend. Sunday, 4 pm. What do you think I’m doing? Yes, I’m working. Like I did yesterday, and the day before, and on Thanksgiving proper.
So if anybody suggests that academics on sabbaticals do no work, I ask you to spit in their stupid, lying faces.
But at least you get to set your own working schedule (early morning, late evening), whatever you fantasy…
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I’m not complaining or anything. I do exactly what I want to do. But I want the recognition.
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How can some readers actually give an innocuous post like this one multiple thumbs down???
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Wow, you are right. There are some weirdos hanging around the blog.
You just never know what’s going to freak people out.
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This is what I wondered.
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I think people experienced a sense of guilt when they read the post. What they don’t know is that I need to make a deadline right now but when I do, I will go on a “stay in bed all day reading and spitting at the ceiling” vacation.
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Sadly, there are many people who despise academics.
A smart, if grouchy, man said that’s precisely because academics seem to be enjoying their jobs and are not toiling away in misery and boredom like any other folks.
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Clarissa, I tried sending this info to an email I have for you. In case it didn’t get through, I wanted to make sure you saw this NYT article on Illinois politics. It explains a lot of the current idiocy as well as some of the anti-intellectual bias.
Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book.
November 29, 2015
The New York Times
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Breaking News Alert
SPECIAL REPORT
A handful of rich families set out to remake Illinois politics. Here’s what happened.
Sunday, November 29, 2015 10:09 AM EST
Kenneth C. Griffin, the billionaire founder of one of the world’s largest hedge funds, and a small group of rich supporters have poured tens of millions of dollars into Illinois, a concentration of political money without precedent in the state’s history.
Their wealth has forcefully shifted the state’s balance of power. Last year, the families helped elect as governor Bruce Rauner, a Griffin friend and former private equity executive from the Chicago suburbs, who estimates his own fortune at more than $500 million. Now they are rallying behind Mr. Rauner’s agenda: to cut spending and overhaul the state’s pension system, impose term limits and weaken public employee unions.
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Thank you, I read the article. I am VERY glad that finally the insanity that is occurring in Illinois is becoming part of a national discussion. Rauner is STILL holding the state budget hostage and it’s impossible to budge him from this position. In a recent discussion with presidents of public universities he outlined his program of public education reform in the state that made my hair stand on end.
I believe that college professors in Illinois need to unionize ASAP because tenure will not protect anybody from anything. Maybe I will go back to being a union organizer.
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