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So stoked! When I came home today my wolf shirt was waiting. I absolutely love it!
Check me out with my Jazzmaster rockin’ out to Little Fury Things J style.
[img]http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g120/tonas73/Tonasinwolfshirtwjazzmaster.jpg[/img]So Awesome!
Tony – That picture is worth a thousand karma points.. Do you mind if I blog this on Myspace?? I am so happy that you got this done!
BTW – My husband bought that same hat at the Boston show last summer where we saw J in the wolf shirt. (Some kid borrowed and never gave it back.. boo..) This picture couldn’t get any better!
Almost forgot.. A long wig, silky warm-up jacket with arm stripes, and some purple new balance and you could be J for Halloween..
"BetteDavisLies " wrote:Almost forgot.. A long wig, silky warm-up jacket with arm stripes, and some purple new balance and you could be J for Halloween..You gave away my plan! I already have an Adidas jacket, and Im waiting for those Dinosaur Jr Nikes to come out. I’m totally going to be J for Halloween. I’ll take a picture of that too. Sure you can use the pic in your blog, you don’t need to ask permission. When are you getting your shirt? You’ll have to post a pic too.
Oh, now I am super jealous -I´ve never seen any t.shirts like that here in Oslo. Not even napoleon dynamite could look better wearing that.
Now all you need is for your whole family to dress up like that and go on a picnic.Okay, you asked for it!! Check out the latest blog:
http://www.myspace.com/bettedavislies
It is the most recent blog on my list.. You all are awesome
"BetteDavisLies " wrote:Okay, you asked for it!! Check out the latest blog:http://www.myspace.com/bettedavislies
It is the most recent blog on my list.. You all are awesome
In your blog you mention U of M English — U of Memphis, by chance? A guy I know from Rutgers English (I’m currently finishing my PhD there), Jeff Scraba, just joined the Memphis English dept last year, I think. Nice guy, and has interesting things to say about Washington Irving, whose work (one book of his, anyway) is the subject of my last diss chapter.
Tubby – U of M is University of Memphis. I am not familiar with Jeff Scraba. This happens quite a lot though because I never make it to any of the department parties. Assuming he teaches lit, could he maybe have joined in the spring or something. I usually know everyone in lit/textual studies. I am working on my Ph.D coursework in Textual Studies at the U of M. I love it. It isn’t like having a job or anything because it is exactly what I would be doing if I could be granted my wish for a perfect life. Congrats to you for being at the dissertation level. Where will you go from there? Do you currently teach? I teach composition, but if I am good, maybe they will give me some lit next spring.
"BetteDavisLies " wrote:Tubby – U of M is University of Memphis. I am not familiar with Jeff Scraba. This happens quite a lot though because I never make it to any of the department parties. Assuming he teaches lit, could he maybe have joined in the spring or something. I usually know everyone in lit/textual studies. I am working on my Ph.D coursework in Textual Studies at the U of M. I love it. It isn’t like having a job or anything because it is exactly what I would be doing if I could be granted my wish for a perfect life. Congrats to you for being at the dissertation level. Where will you go from there? Do you currently teach? I teach composition, but if I am good, maybe they will give me some lit next spring.Now that I think about it more, I think Scraba might just be starting this fall, having scored the job in last year’s search. I assume he was hired as an early Americanist, since I’m pretty sure his dissertation was on Irving exclusively, with a little Walter Scott thrown in as literary background.
I’m going on the job market this fall, which is always a crapshoot, but I’m aiming for a university gig that doesn’t involve totally burdensome amounts of teaching since I want to revise my diss into a book as quickly as possible so I can move on to other projects. There are several major "bridges to cross when I come to them" in the job market process, so it all feels very speculative and abstract at this point. I’ve been teaching a mixture of comp and lit, slightly more of the former, but have lucked out this fall and am TA’ing (read: grading) for my diss director and working as an assistant to one of the writing program administrators 6 hours per week instead of teaching comp, which will give me much much more time to focus on market-related stuff and my writing.
Hope you get some lit teaching — not only is it more fun in that you get to fire kids’ imaginations, but it doesn’t involve the positively inhuman amounts of grading that comp typically does. I’d actually genuinely enjoy teaching comp if we could eliminate at least two of the seven graded drafts we have to deal with, but our program is strictly regimented. It’s a very good one, but a monster to teach in.
Are you a Kenneth Burke fan? "Language as symbolic action" factors conceptually in my work in foundational ways, as 18th C literature was nothing if not wholly socially-rhetorical in orientation (something that most 18th C-ists these days aren’t really aware of, mainly because rhetorical considerations in lit studies aren’t "fashionable" anymore). To my mind, not knowing the rhetorical traditions underlying 18th C lit is kind of like trying to study Joyce without knowing anything about Ireland and its traditions.
I’ve stopped going to dept parties too, mainly because academics have begun to make me itch when I’m around them too long. Good thing I’m going into academia full-time, eh?
Wow.. I looked for your friend Scraba on the U of M website and I found him listed as a professor under the people search. He is teaching this semester in Early American Lit. I will definetly make a point of finding him and introducing myself. It is unreal the connections I make on this humble Dinosaur site.
I think the very fact that you are tackling rhetorical traditions in your dissertation in lit studies just shows how intelligent and brave you are. I don’t have as much of a background in rhetoric, though it does interest me. At U of M, more than half of our time as so-called lit majors is spent studying theory. (We have a lot of cali-profs who relocated to the south to spread the gospel of Derrida.) It is okay with me.. I love theory.
Both of my comp classes have 25+ students and the grading load is outrageous. We do not have as rigorous a program as you guys, but our classes are packed full. We are an urban university with a very difficult task teaching writing to inner-city school system kids who did not get the best college writing foundation. This is coupled with a mix of ultra-rich, white, upper-class, suburbanites who don’t really want to be there but do it to please the parents. Did I say I love it? I actually do..
As far as the academic community is concerned, I try not to be too much of an ass. My first year of grad school I coined the term "academons." Believe me, I know department politics.
BTW, there just so happens to be some other people on this board with ties to the U of M. They never post, but I found this out in a round-about way. Good luck with that dissertation writing…
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