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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Revenge of the Childfree

I wish my dissertation were still of feminist interest and import, because what I think (and subsequently blog) about often has to do with feminist-ish topics.  So what I’m saying is that this would still be a diss blog, sort of, if my diss were on something else, something more central to my everyday thinking.  [...]

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How to Write a Dissertation after Having a Baby

I don’t know how to write a dissertation after having a baby.  I truly don’t.  But I titled the post as such to lure here those of my ilk, the other parents and caregivers of children who have dissertations to write and babies to raise.
See, every once in a while I google that phrase above, [...]

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Is it still a swing when it crashes to the ground?

I am so royally fucked, and I’m depressed about my state of affairs, which makes me want to crawl back into bed, which has necessitated the drinking of coffee, which I feel bad about because it’s bad for the baby.
So I have two major problems.
Problem One:  We are completely unprepared for the possible impending I-hope-so [...]

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What I was trying to say before.

I admit to being cryptic in that last post, but not by design. It was more of a cryptic-by-exhaustion sort of thing.
I’m stuck in a state of perpetual in-between-ness. Looking back at the beginnings of this blog, I realized that when I started, on June 26th,I was just about a month away from finding [...]

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Explanation: Identity Crisis

Well, hi.  I’ve been gone so long that wordpress looks completely different.  When the hell did that happen?
I’ve been “away” from all things internet and diary-like because I’ve been dealing with some stuff.  Stuff of an identity crisis sort (which is far better than and certainly preferable to stuff of a “what the hell’s wrong [...]

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Back to School

As the whine-a-roo post below indicates, I’m immersed in 9/11 lit, and it’s depressing the hell out of me, so I’m not capable of posting something coherent right now (which is not to say I’ve ever posted something coherent, come to think of it). My dissertation is not exclusively on 9/11 texts (note to self: update wholly [...]

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I used to think college is for everyone. (Part One)

Surprisingly, this delusion lasted me through an M.A. program and at least two years of a Ph.D.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about full disclosure (don’t worry, I’ll come back to the college thing). When I set out to write an anonymous blog, my assumption was that I would feel free to write about [...]

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Recaps, Revamps

It’s almost August, people. For those of us in the academic world, this is the month of “I said I’d finish that before school starts?” and “when does school start?” and “it’s August already? are you kidding?” I’ve finally gotten to a point in my life where friends don’t assume I’m “on [...]

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Naming Names

I’m forcing myself to write about something unrelated to the diss today, in part because, when I stop to think about it, working or thoughts of working have consumed this entire week. I can’t even remember the last time I left the house (right, thank you Twitter, it was Wednesday, and I went…to do [...]

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