Customers, Consumers

Tell me this: when did I turn into one of those people who considers college students to be consumers and sees her job as providing exceptional customer service?
Probably since I moved from the classroom to administration. I used to grandstand about the life of the mind and goods and services and commodity culture and all [...]

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Searches!

You’re all doing it, so why shouldn’t I?  Herewith, answers to your favorite search questions:
things to look for when a child falls: Hell. So you’re here because I’m a crap parent, are you?  Well, I’ll redeem myself by offering the following information, all of which has absolutely no medical value, cannot be vouched for, and [...]

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Two Things I’d Rather Be Doing

It’s crunch-time around here, and I wish I could say that the crunchiness was limited to the leaves on the ground.  The weird thing about having a kid (and I don’t know why it’s weird, exactly–it should be obvious) is that downtime is just…gone.  We don’t have it anymore. There’s either work, or dissertation, or [...]

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Nablopomo?

Oh, please. I didn’t pull it off last year, when all I had to do was obsess over the conditional condition and coast along in a dream of success after passing my proposal.
Yesterday I was talking about having another kid.  Another one.  And I’m not even ovulating, so I have no idea what’s up with [...]

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