Now that the fall semester has started, I’m a bit scared I won’t have time to work on my book. I woke up early today to work on the 10th chapter, which seemed to go pretty well. But I wrote a lot of these chapters from much shorter blog posts (in part) in 2022, so I have some scaffolding for many of them. I’ve also been able to structure them all ahead of time so the book has an overall arc, I guess you could say.
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I Get Around
So, I turned in my history final yesterday. I guess now I just wait for a grade. It does count for most of the final grade. I hope it’s not horrible. However, he gave me an A on my last assignment. Things are looking up.
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Sorry about that; I’m neither man nor woman, but I love Elvis Costello, and that’s a great song. I love his high-pitched screaming that bookends the beginning and the end of that song. They don’t make ’em like that anymore.
Continue readingOn the Condition of a White Professor
Okay, let’s have a conversation about how trying your best is good enough. I write this as someone who believes this theory. Yet, I beat myself up for nearly everything I do because I always think I can try harder. It winds up being a very tall order.
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So far this month, my head has been pretty deep into school. Lots of reading, lots of writing. It’s okay, though; this is one of the harder classes I’ll have to do…I think.
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