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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘universities blow’
Customers, Consumers
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged academia, grad school, identity crisis, implied rant, thinking, universities blow on 4 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not unless you consider navigating England’s middle class marriage market “action.”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged procrastination, universities blow, work habits on 20 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You mean the whole point is they’re trying to get married? There’s not going to be any…action…or anything?
–my father, after watching the first hour of Pride and Prejudice
So I was supposed to be out of town this weekend, but instead I’m stuck at home with a cold. Despite my best efforts and liberal [...]
Back to School
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged academia, inhumanity, rant, universities blow on 31 August 2008 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Twittin’- mmeperpetua: @megs_expreg sometimes it strikes me that I have slept, at the most, five hours in a row in the past seven months. And that, rarely. Crazy. 8 November 2009
- mmeperpetua: @jenihunt Everyone's going on about She & Him. I haven't heard enough to know if it's worth the fuss. 6 November 2009
- mmeperpetua: @megs_expreg oh no. What brought it on? We're still in the half-mud/half-that-smells-familiar stage. 6 November 2009
- mmeperpetua: @WordsAndEggs grr, germs! Grr, I say! Feel better soon. 5 November 2009
- mmeperpetua: @jenihunt 3 AM. That's our new wake-up time. I'm considering just staying on the old time and going to bed at, like, 8. 3 November 2009
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