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January 30, 2012

In the absence of information, what do we do? Make it up!

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In the absence of information, what do employees do? Speculate! Here's the latest: Rumor has it that the for-profit college I teach fo...
January 28, 2012

After 50, you can do whatever you want

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This morning at breakfast, just for the hell of it, I plotted the relationship between age and the amount of stuff you can get away with on ...
January 27, 2012

Life or something like it

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Sometimes I wish this life was done. Over. Finis. I'm not quite ready to be dead, but being alive is sometimes so excruciating. I have...
January 23, 2012

Math anxiety and the wreckage of the future

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Today is the first day of my first official dissertation "course," the 12-week period in which I am expected to revise my concep...
January 22, 2012

Clearing the decks

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In preparation for the next adventure in Dissertation Hell , I started going through some of my old journals, looking for drawings I could s...
January 21, 2012

Am I the only person not on Facebook?

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The career college where I teach recently launched a Facebook page. This in spite of the fact that the Facebook website is blocked from the ...
January 20, 2012

Perplexed and dumbfounded by my students

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For-profit career college education is hell, no doubt about it. But school is school, and if you want to get the most out of the experienc...
January 18, 2012

Still malcontented

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Wow. I don't believe it. Two days in a row. Does this mean I qualify as a writer? Hmmm. I doubt it. A writer is someone who publishes ...
January 17, 2012

Welcome to the Hellish Handbasket

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Welcome to another useless, pointless blog of self-obsessed palaver by a chronic malcontent.  My name is Carol, and I admit it: I’m...