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the doctor isn t skip to main skip to sidebar the doctor isn t a young academic tells tales about his life in the american educational system and its discontents single in academia i can t imagine i have any readers left but in the case that i do i came across this and it seemed like it was something that many of you like myself might find it worth a read it s a piece from antenna about being single in academia hope you re all well enjoy posted by dr curmudgeon at 10 05 2011 03 59 00 pm 1 comment keywords academia jobs relationships the last blog post wow look at the cobwebs here sorry to have neglected this place for so long sadly it s a bit of virtual intellectual real estate that s only going to be further abandoned i m in the slow process of starting up a site that is a more public face complete with real name to help deal with an increasingly competitive field and since i didn t have the focus to do this one justice i know i won t have the focus to do two of them any service either and that s a shame as this was a damn good time and a new real name blog won t allow for nearly the snark this one did though i bet some still sneaks through so thanks dear readers for the good times maybe someday i ll get with it enough to juggle two blogs or more likely i ll find the need for sarcasm that the stodgy professional spot just won t allow til then posted by dr curmudgeon at 5 01 2011 03 33 00 pm 0 comments keywords parting irritate your prof a madlib in order to fill out the story below please provide the following name of your major name of another major or department which feels like the opposite of your major keyword which has is mentioned in the course description and in every lecture so far keyword which has never been mentioned in this course s syllabus or lectures so far related to your major noun adjective proper name your favorite letter of the alphabet when you have those answers for each of those fill them into the story below and e mail it to your professor for much hilarity they ll love you i promise and if you feel like it you can post your answers in the comments too what fun hey __________ 5 i am writing because i have a question about your class i was under the impression the course would be focusing on __________ 4 but we re now several weeks into the course and i think the course may be focusing on _______ 3 i am feeling _______ 6 i m a _________ 1 major and thought this course would be useful my friend _______ 7 said that only __________ 2 people would find this course interesting or useful is there any chance you ll change the course so that it works better for those of us in _______ 1 thanks see you in class ______ 8 posted by dr curmudgeon at 9 17 2010 07 55 00 pm 3 comments keywords madlibs stupid student tricks things in my inbox north american calendar possum i m supposed to be writing well editing and adding whatever today s the first day in the new term that i ve managed to get completely to myself free from anything but chores and what not naturally i have ridiculous writer s block even though i m editing and adding or whatever i made the leap at the start of the term to keep better track of my schedule i m on a mac and i have an iphone and it all syncs up nicely so why not put stuff into the calendar since my school finally has a set up allowing macs to connect to things like campus e mail and such and i ve been dutiful about it thus far making sure to plug in events i ve also been trying not to say no to invitations out only now opening the calendar is enough to paralyze me for awhile i should at least have the decency to fall over and play dead or something when it happens instead of just standing stunned waiting for the shoe to drop but no first off i hate that i ve hit a point where i can t remember all the details myself anymore i m consoling myself that isn t that i m getting old but rather that somehow there s more stuff to keep track of but second that level of organization feels more than a little confining to me it was the fascists who wanted the trains to run on time after all this much order in my own life feels confining certainly i like a bit of it no doubt there are folks reading who are laughing a little to themselves thinking of all the amusing moments where i like to impose rules on myself and others still i like the chaos too i ll take a picture of my desk sometime if you don t believe me so that s the start of the term my classes are going well though i m still struggling to get enrollment for them but i m getting there and if i can get this writing thing well editing and adding whatever under control it won t be so bad at all posted by dr curmudgeon at 9 16 2010 10 14 00 pm 1 comment keywords new term order and chaos scheduling writing sí se puede happy labor day everyone remember that without unions and laborers you d likely have been working 80 work weeks since you were children for scrip and don t forget that there people who still are working those long weeks as children from scrip posted by dr curmudgeon at 9 06 2010 02 53 00 pm 0 comments keywords labor videos and so it begins again there is not much to be enjoyed at the start of a new term truth be told for whatever reason the number of meetings that are crammed in to the first two weeks are ridiculous and of course there are the panicked e mails from students which are like a slap in the face after a quiet summer and yet i m still having a bit of fun here at the start of the second year most of it though is happening off campus need a couple things to enjoy there s the joy that is feministhulk on twitter and i ve finally after years paid for the full membership to librarything and have been taking the pleasure that only a nerd truly can in cataloguing all sorts of things don t be surprised if you see movies and video games appear in that little box towards the bottom of the right hand column but mostly i ve been plugging along at book edits and hoping there are no more calamities that get in the way before i can ship the whole thing off to my rightly so agitated editor and making sense of the conferences i want to head to this year among them are one in san antonio new orleans and maybe athens greece we ll see how it goes posted by dr curmudgeon at 8 28 2010 09 40 00 pm 1 comment keywords back to school conferences libraries not so new job the best laid plans twitter you re leaving on a jet plane she s not continuing with thinking about the trip there are a lot of good bits to remember i found myself running through the best stories from the trip with a friend on the phone last night most of them involved airport travel or americans abroad and other than running into my old undergrad adviser unexpectedly the best story happened on the flight back as i was making a plane change in shannon ireland in front of me stood two american recent college grads a boy and a girl and they were chatting each other up in the way that american college kids do you know with the assumption on at least one of their parts that if the conversation goes well it equates to them likely hooking up later and so i hear them swapping travel stories trying to one up each other with where they ve been or how much they ve spent or how long they ve stayed and then flight begins to board they call for the first round of regular boarding and the two kids begin to head towards the ramp with the girl remarking she s not in this boarding group evidently the conversation is going well neither is particularly bothered by this no doubt assured by their recent college graduate status and certain sense of entitlement that might come from age or from being american or from having been through so many airports the boarding guard an irish gentleman in his middle years balding takes the boy s ticket then the girl s then he hands it back it s not your time to board the boy feeling his victory close at hand goes for the kill no doubt wanting to show both his entitlement and the level of cool control oh it s okay she s with me the boarding guard looks him over for just a second sizes up the situation and says with just enough sense of sarcasm and finality that every young male in the room would ve winced and cupped themselves not any more she s not get aboard please and with that head hung in defeat our young protagonist was left to head alone down the jetway his dreams of summer fling put coolly to bed and i must say seeing it and hearing the irish accent and the sarcasm saying it made the many walks through security well worth the trip posted by dr curmudgeon at 7 30 2010 08 17 00 am 4 comments keywords a funny thing happened on the way to americans abroad it is funnier if i try to do the accent travel older posts home subscribe to posts atom about the doctor dr curmudgeon i m anonymous for a reason sucka view my complete profile required reading professor zero transmodernidad 2 days ago not of general interest i like the summer air a summer activities 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