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There’s no PsychoSlut column in Bookslut this month, a combination of MLA, end-of-semester crises, and a snafu involving an interviewee.  It’ll be back in February! I did, however, get a review in on time: Mark Jarman’s Epistles, a book of … Continue reading →

Today I went to the campus bookstore for the ritualistic pre-semester check of my book order, and–ZOMG!!!–all the books are ordered in the correct editions!  And almost all of them are in! You’ll pardon my excitement, but this is the … Continue reading →

A disclaimer at the start: I have terrible handwriting.  (Privately, I blame my old-skool 3rd grade teacher, who was inclined to have me switch hands from left to right, which both was unsuccessful and exacerbated the fact that I skipped … Continue reading →

I’ve been very late to the cameraphone thing, in part because it was a pain to get pictures off of our old phones, and in part because most of the pictures I’d ever seen were pretty stupid.  There are pictures … Continue reading →

Many (I dunno, 3?) years ago, I joined Facebook during the summer.  It was back when the site automatically matched people up based on their class schedule.  About a month before school started, I quit: As students were populating their … Continue reading →

I’ve talked before about how I require students to memorize poems. In a class focusing on a single period (the Victorian Age, Modernist British Poetry, etc.), and in my old survey classes, I have students memorize & recite “40 consecutive … Continue reading →

I love new toys, and am always delighted to play experiment with new software or hardware that might improve my life.  This holiday season, however, once again taught me a cruel truth: Even very cool technology that “just works” can’t … Continue reading →

While at MLA, I picked up Donald E. Hall’s* new book, The Academic Community: A Manual for Change (Ohio State UP, 2007), which is a follow-up to his helpful book about The Academic Self: An Owner’s Manual (Ohio State UP, … Continue reading →

MLA ended yesterday, so we went to the Field Museum & Adler Planetarium in the afternoon before catching a flight back to CT.  I learned the following things: At the Field Museum, we caught the Darwin exhibit, which made us … Continue reading →

I’m not really at MLA; A is.  I’m just here to provide childcare during her paper.  But I did go to Dr. Crazy’s blogger meetup, and met another blogger the next day, and then last night had dinner with some … Continue reading →