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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Reader Poll

Well, hey everybody!  How are you?
If your answer ISN’T “my mother-in-law has been living with me for the past month,” then you are FINE.
So anyway, you tell me, which of these is more nasty:
“I’ve been through a dissertation with one child. I’m not putting up with it for another one” in response to my slight [...]

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Degrassi, eh?

How long has it been since I’ve discussed something of or related to pop culture?  What’s that?  Never, you say?  Unpossible!  My world is a Pop Carnivale if you consider the amount of reality tv I consume daily.  If it’s on Bravo, I watch it.  MTV, usually.  TLC, sometimes, if it’s Toddlers and Tiaras or [...]

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Things I’m missing.

The first deadlines for Infinite Summer
Hair (so goes the thick, lustrous hair of pregnancy…down the drain…)
An acceptable level of blood iron
Uninterrupted sleep
Patience
The point of NYC Prep (not in an entertainment way, but an existential way)
A sunny disposition
Coffee
A serious plan for how I’m going to function as a working mother
Texas
My “blogiversary,” or whatever the hell you [...]

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Quiz Show!

WTF, WordPress?  I just wrote this whole post about my reasons for and against getting a Facebook account, inspired by this Slate article.  But now the post is gone!  Kerpoof!  I’m not rewriting that whole darned thing, so do me a favor, won’t you, and take my little poll?

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Who’s afraid of her childfree friend?

Her childfree friend, her childfree friend?  Who’s afraid of her childfree friend?
Me. Me. Me.
Lemme explain.  I have a friend who is avowedly Childfree, which is not just an idea but a movement.  I’d say it’s the exact opposite of Quiverfull except that it’s not.  While Quiverfull folks seem to limit their notion of what a [...]

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Pre-Remembering

This is a placeholder post, a “don’t want to post two photos in a row” post.
I should post part two of that thing I was posting a while ago, but I don’t feel like it.
I don’t know if this particular brand of malaise I’m experiencing is pro-work or anti-work. Am I shutting down because [...]

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I Forgot Photo Friday

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