Day Without a Woman: To Strike or Not to Strike?
It’s here: March 8th, International Women’s Day and the Day Without a Woman General Strike. Fittingly, I’m on Day #1 of my period so I feel…
And Then There Was Cake
Wednesday started off as another bad day. I was depressed about the results of the Pennsylvania primary, PIC was being grumpy, and even though I’d spent…
Throwback Thursday: Barefoot in the Faculty Lounge
The college semester is starting up again although I lucked out with an extra week of prep time thanks to Martin Luther King Day. Here’s a…
There’s No Such Thing as Race
As an adjunct professor of cultural anthropology, I’ve grown accustomed to my white students blaming their black classmates for their own failure to qualify for financial…
Throwback Thursday: Feel, Felt, Found (or how to deal with difficult people)
I know, I know: you don’t care what books I’m reading. Or what my house looks like. Or how I feel about what my house looks…
The Pretty Hair Professor
As a freshman in college, I managed to talk my way into an upper level art history course taught by a visiting professor from Johns Hopkins…
How to Bedazzle Tap Shoes
I have a new system. A new how-to-avoid-murdering-my-loan-officer system to be precise. (This morning I received an email requesting an “explanation of the non-employment deposit of…
Barefoot in the Faculty Lounge
In my infinite wisdom, I decided to wear my (fake) snakeskin peep toe stilettos this morning. Why? Well, I was teaching my first summer class of…
The New Normal
I was just locking the studio, holding my travel mug and keys in one hand and my dance bag and box drum in the other, when…
(The) GREs (Are) for Dummies
In 2007, I went to a Jewish friend’s tree-trimming party, got slightly drunk, came home, slept for a few hours and took the GREs the next…
Feel, Felt, Found (or how to deal with difficult people)
Recently I attended an in-service training day at the community college where I teach anthropology. This is interesting because A) they brought in a corporate communication…
Three for the Price of One
I know, I know: I’m a terrible blogger. I have nothing to say for myself except for this: This, And this: (Okay, admittedly, this last one…
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