Mark, a guy i worked with at the bookstore said once, “If you don’t like jazz, you haven’t heard the right kind.” (Granted, this was a guy with couple thousand jazz records on vinyl–I didn’t then, nor do i now have anything on him.) I have come to believe that, even if Sarah’s [...]
(One week and one day of teaching fellows left!)
Alrighty, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader was excellent. Unfortunately I cannnot remember much about what I was so very excited to write down about it. Also, I have returned the book to the library so I can’t just flip through it to remember. It’s [...]
Teaching Fellows, though I promised I wasn’t going to bitch about it–well, I have to take a minute just to say that I am overworked and frustrated. Let’s just take a moment to consider the fact that I–Sarah the crazy workhorse–am overworked. On the upside, I am one step closer to inculcating New [...]
I’ve been reading pop-science books. Blame A Brief History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. Well, its bibliography, at least. That and RadioLab. Bryson spent a couple of years reading about, and (because he could do such things) talking to people who could answer questions to which he did not have answers, like “What does [...]
When I decided to do the whole Teaching Fellows thing, teach full-time and concurrently take part-time grad classes, I didn’t fully understand what “Not Sarah Lawrence” would mean in terms of education. I will say this of graduate school at Mercy College and never speak of it to you all again. I figured school [...]
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