The Transparent Academic

Lacan: Therapists cut patients off @ 50 mins. Scribes punctuate #MSS how they see fit. These are not unlike practices.

- Mark Strand, "Coming to This"

- Savas Dimopoulos

It's easy to give up on fruit

Rare initial K

Tree bark at the bus stop. I'm pretty enamored.

For Maddy: If there's anything better than $5 paisley cotton pants, I'm not sure I even want to know about it. 80s Nine West shoes. Leather apothecary necklace from Spain (gift from aunt circa 1993). Velvet blouse.

Amanda Davis (1971-2003), "Crash," from Circling the Drain. What a voice, this woman. 

1996, very interested in Jediship

About to send this to my mane lady for her bday

Napkin art, origami dodo bird

Talking about these transatlantic cables last night with a colleague. Blows my mind that we still rely on them; there's a bunch of them in the oceans that will still be there when the oceans are sand.

You hang like a bat / from the tall ceilings / of my empty hangar

Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and St./Sir Lionel Logue, patron saint of speech therapists, and his wife, Mertyl.

We all know people on both sides of the debate: Should parents let their kids sleep in their bed? Should pet owners let their cat, dog or chinchilla cuddle with them while they slumber? While the jury is still out on what's best in those situations, what about graduate students who similarly let what's most important to them pile into their beds? Sleeping with books, often multiple books at one time, is a widespread but much-ignored issue for which imperial research is lacking. Until we have hard data that shows that, yes, falling asleep nuzzled next to de Certeau will in fact improve your time to degree, or that the medieval dream visions inspired by snoozing alongside Chaucer actually outline into a viable prospectus, I recommend the book bassinet ($9.99, Target). All of your comprehensive exam texts and embarrassing self-help books are still within arm's reach should you need them (or vice versa), but the compartmentalizing message of this arrangement establishes a firm - and chic - boundary between you and the world's greater corpus of primary and secondary literature. Fits snugly under most nightstands to minimize tripping on your way to the bathroom in the middle of the night following a coffee binge. Any basket-type container will do, really; just make sure that the sides are high enough so that the books won't be able to crawl out. Pleasant dreams.

"Surviving crisis situations is part and parcel of being effective, 'doing what works' (a core mindfulness skill). However, at times people are more interested in proving to others how bad a situation is than surviving the situation. The problem with proving how bad things are is that it hardly ever works. That is, although it may result in short-term gains (e.g., getting put in the hospital or getting a lover to return), it usually fails in the long run." -- Dr. Marsha Linehan, modern-day Catholic mystic