I made a bunch of New Year’s resolutions, but they more or less boiled down to three or four. Here they are. In 2004, I will: make time to write every day, even if it’s only for ten minutes at a time; ask for what I want (in the job-search, but also more generally); not […]
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I’ve returned from my vacation with only a few days to spare before classes start up again (Midwestern U. begins its winter term insanely early). I spent Christmas day with my family, all of us opening presents, eating ourselves silly in the middle of the day, and then playing a game of Trivial Pursuit that […]
I forgot to add, last night: I’ve got a part-time job lined up for the winter term, and probably the summer, too, to eke out my lecturer’s salary. I’m going to be proofreading for a text-digitization project at Midwestern University’s main library. Better yet, the texts being encoded are early modern ones, and my friend […]
The grades are in, the airport transportation has been arranged, and the preparations for next week’s journey back east have mostly been made. Tomorrow is for pre-holiday things, like finding presents for as many relatives as possible. Luckily I come from an extended family with a long tradition of not stressing too much about the […]
Rana compares the academic job market to Survivor. Survivor comes out looking like the more promising option: the odds of success are probably about the same, and while both can in theory lead to national fame and a million dollars, Survivor is over in less than two months and while physically challenging, probably has less […]
Wouldn’t "The Independent Scholars" be a great name for a band? Not a rock band, but an early-music band that plays dance hits of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (I am a Renaissance person, after all.) Like the Folger Consort or the Newberry Consort, only maybe with more bawdy songs. (And on period instruments; I’m […]
Because I’ve always been intrigued by miniature rooms, shadowboxes, and stage sets, I found Theaters of the 13th Dimension utterly fascinating. Better yet, they’re on display in my home town, Baltimore. Maybe I can coax my family into making a trip to the Senator Theatre when I go home to visit them next week. Maybe […]
After this season, ChevronTexaco will no longer be sponsoring the Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts, and it’s still uncertain whether other funding sources will come through. Which is a great pity. I’ve only recently started listening to the radio broadcasts, but I love being able to hear an entire performance from my living room, […]
I’ve applied for a job. A non-professorial job that would still allow me to do research — in my field, no less. It’s an administrative position at an independent, well-reputed research library, and they want a new Ph.D. who works in Renaissance studies, which I do. And it’s in a city where I’d actually quite […]
By one of those weird coincidences that seem to happen in the academic blogosphere, I read Naomi Chana’s post about rate-your-professors sites only hours after I’d stumbled upon one of those sites myself. The temptation to look up my own name was irresistible, and there it was, with a happy face next to it. Someone […]