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March 15, 2005

StepAside on gender and sexuality

All right: I've retrieved everything worth retrieving. It was a bigger job than I'd anticipated (practically everything is), but now it's done.

Because my blog functions in part as commonplace book that I use in my scholarship (and also because I'm just an obsessive person), for my own reference (and perhaps others'), I'm listing here the entries from StepAside that touch on issues of gender and/or sexuality.

2/12/05 Response to Summers

1/7/05 Wildly ironic spam

1/6/05 That which cannot be blogged

12/4/04 Hot flashes and black cohosh

11/27/04 Heteronormative traditions

Posted by senioritis at 10:43 PM | Comments (0)

StepAside (and Upstate) on music

Because my blog functions in part as commonplace book that I use in my scholarship (and also because I'm just an obsessive person), for my own reference (and perhaps others'), I'm listing here the entries from StepAside that touch on matters musical, and I'm also adding a post from Upstate. (Gradually I'm figuring out how I want these separate blogs to function, and The Concert for Bangladesh I would now post on Synecdoche instead of Upstate.)

3/12/05 The Concert for Bangladesh

3/3/05 Ten musicians I wouldn't want to live without

2/23/05 Earworm psychology

1/16/05 Burning question; your musical assistance needed!

12/14/04 Compilation tape

11/25/04 Thanksgiving, Chez Howard

Posted by senioritis at 10:42 PM | Comments (0)

StepAside on media

Because my blog functions in part as commonplace book that I use in my scholarship (and also because I'm just an obsessive person), for my own reference (and perhaps others'), I'm listing here the entries from StepAside that touch on issues of the media.

1/14/05 TG for the international press

1/9/05 Media monsters

11/29/04 Adaptability and flexibility

11/20/04 But then there's this

11/19/04 Media perspectives on authority

Posted by senioritis at 10:41 PM | Comments (0)

StepAside on politics

Because my blog functions in part as commonplace book that I use in my scholarship (and also because I'm just an obsessive person), for my own reference (and perhaps others'), I'm listing here the entries from StepAside that touch on political issues.

1/27/05 A beautiful and terrifying prospect

1/23/05 Cascading definitions

1/20/05 Newsmedia moratorium

1/14/05 TG for the international press

1/14/05 Score one for free speech

1/14/05 "I didn't rehearse it"

12/30/04 Still flunking algebra

12/24/04 Christmas wishes

12/22/04 Of bake sales and eBays

12/8/04 Sunday-Herald (Glasgow)

12/5/04 "emotional truth"

11/29/04 Adaptability and flexibility

11/24/04 What I wouldn't give

11/23/04 Children Pay Cost of Iraq's Chaos

11/21/04 Don't Know Much About History

11/18/04 Mencken the Prognosticator

11/17/04 Had it with Hadley

11/16/04 Apologies accepted

11/15/04 Powell's resignation

11/14/04 Kristoff antidote

11/7/04 Deja vu all over again

11/6/04 The Little Mandate that Wasn't

11/6/04 On not moving right

11/5/04 New Curse

11/4/04 Sitting down

Posted by senioritis at 10:38 PM | Comments (0)

StepAside miscellany

I haven't retrieved every miscellaneous post that was on StepAside, but here are links to any of them that I think anybody might ever want to see again. Well, okay: that I think I might want to see again.

3/7/05 The meaning of it all

3/6/05 Regarding coffee

2/23/05 It ain't just me

2/22/05 Fred's friends

2/19/05 Friday cat blogging

2/14/05 Where's the shizzle?

2/12/05 Where the Discriminating Cat Will Crap

2/11/05 Caption contest

2/10/05 Pedestrian safety: A sound-bite rant

2/7/05 Fred's name

2/6/05 Mystery; irony

2/5/05 I thought I married an historian

2/4/05 fear not, Revered Readers

2/1/05 Sympathy for the deluded

1/29/05 New Limitations

1/28/05 Blog My Eye

1/27/05 "Probable fatality"

1/26/05 Things I'm grateful for (updated)

1/23/05 According to the guy who runs the snowblower

1/23/05 Snowballed!

1/22/05 What will it take?

1/21/05 Blog My Toes

1/20/05 On a lighter note

1/19/05 The Fred Report, 1/19/05

1/16/05 Essential preparation for the first day of classes

1/14/05 Friday cat(nip) blogging

1/10/05 Feral Fred

1/8/05 It's not smart to taunt Mother Nature

1/6/05 Close, but no cigar

1/3/05 Crummy winter II

1/2/05 Put me down for "dissatisfied"

12/31/04 Few degrees of separation

12/23/04 SAD, Syracuse, and cycling

12/20/04 Celestial signs

12/17/04 Friday cat blogging

12/15/04 The joy of cooking

12/14/04 Tumor reduction

12/12/04 Thanks—but consider the source

12/11/04 Don't blink!

12/9/04 Blue nail polish

12/1/04 Better than woolybears

11/18/04 Beyond all imagining

11/18/04 The Health Report

11/16/04 Coffee reverie

11/12/04 Hunting

11/12/04 Goose maneuvers

11/8/04 Seasonal firsts

11/5/04 Leafing

Posted by senioritis at 10:38 PM | Comments (0)

StepAside on academia

Because my blog functions in part as commonplace book that I use in my scholarship (and also because I'm just an obsessive person), for my own reference (and perhaps others'), I'm listing here the entries from StepAside that touch on issues of the academy.

3/4/05 About SU

2/15/05 the story of The Big Day

2/9/05 My first rock star

2/8/05 Reasons I Like Working in a Doctoral Program

1/20/05 The Complaint Department

1/12/05 Back to school

12/2/04 Colgate 63, Vermont 80

Posted by senioritis at 10:37 PM | Comments (0)

StepAside on race, class, ethnicity

Because my blog functions in part as commonplace book that I use in my scholarship (and also because I'm just an obsessive person), for my own reference (and perhaps others'), I'm listing here the entries from StepAside that touch on issues of race, class, and/or ethnicity.

2/14/05 Uh-oh.

11/21/04 Children Pay Cost of Iraq's Chaos

11/21/04 Don't Know Much About History

11/21/04 Containing diversity

11/12/04 Hunting

Posted by senioritis at 10:36 PM | Comments (0)

StepAside on literacies

Because my blog functions in part as commonplace book that I use in my scholarship (and also because I'm just an obsessive person), for my own reference (and perhaps others'), I'm listing here the entries from StepAside that touch on issues of literacies.

3/6/05 Not to be missed

2/19/05 Pedablogging

2/13/05 Reading in Japan

2/6/05 Why I love peda/sylla/blogs

1/31/05 Pedagogical apprehensiveness

1/27/05 A beautiful and terrifying prospect

1/14/05 Score one for free speech

1/13/05 Game over.

1/9/05 Has it all gone too far?

1/9/05 Media monsters

1/6/05 Night of the IMing (Brain)Dead

12/29/04 Blogs at work

12/17/04 Friday cat blogging

12/16/04 The joy of downloading

12/8/04 Sunday-Herald (Glasgow)

12/8/04 I get it!

12/5/04 "emotional truth"

12/4/04 Milestones in blogging

11/14/04 On disappointing one's spouse

11/4/04 hooked already

Posted by senioritis at 10:35 PM | Comments (0)

StepAside on language

Because my blog functions in part as commonplace book that I use in my scholarship (and also because I'm just an obsessive person), for my own reference (and perhaps others'), I'm listing here the entries from StepAside that touch on issues of language.


3/8/05 Who knew?

2/20/05 You won't find this in the O.E.D.

1/23/05 Cascading definitions

1/14/05 "I didn't rehearse it"

1/11/05 Look that up in your Funk & Wagnall's!

Posted by senioritis at 10:34 PM | Comments (0)

StepAside on composition & rhetoric

Because my blog functions in part as commonplace book that I use in my scholarship (and also because I'm just an obsessive person), for my own reference (and perhaps others'), I'm listing here the entries from StepAside that touch on issues of composition and/or rhetoric.

1/20/05 The Complaint Department

1/14/05 White's representation of shared assumptions

1/14/05 "I didn't rehearse it"

12/30/04 Narrative does it again—or maybe not

12/28/04 Narrative does it again

12/13/04 Plagiarism metaphors

12/11/04 A new cure for writer's block

12/8/04 Sunday-Herald (Glasgow)

12/8/04 False analogy?

12/5/04 "emotional truth"

11/7/04 Deja vu all over again

Posted by senioritis at 10:32 PM | Comments (0)

StepAside on teaching

Because my blog functions in part as commonplace book that I use in my scholarship (and also because I'm just an obsessive person), for my own reference (and perhaps others'), I'm listing here the entries from StepAside that touch on issues of teaching.

3/2/05 And this is what secondary teachers will have to teach to

2/28/05 Backing standards

2/25/05 Teachers vs. students

2/19/05 Pedablogging

2/8/05 Reasons I Like Working in a Doctoral Program

2/6/05 Why I love peda/sylla/blogs

1/31/05 Pedagogical apprehensiveness

1/20/05 The Complaint Department

1/18/05 Sticker shock

1/17/05 Conley pedagogy

1/16/05 Essential preparation for the first day of classes

1/14/05 White's representation of shared assumptions

1/12/05 Back to school

1/6/05 Night of the IMing (Brain)Dead

12/15/04 The joy of cooking

12/8/04 I get it!

11/23/04 Planning for snow days

11/21/04 Following one's own syllabus

11/18/04 Community and competition

11/15/04 The enrollment mambo

11/15/04 7 class meetings to go!

Posted by senioritis at 10:29 PM | Comments (0)

StepAside on authorship, IP, & plagiarism

Because my blog functions in part as commonplace book that I use in my scholarship (and also because I'm just an obsessive person), for my own reference (and perhaps others'), I'm listing here the entries from StepAside that touch on issues of authorship, IP, and plagiarism.

3/4/05 Cheating prevention

3/3/05 Plagiarists = assholes?

2/28/05 The pleasure of the book

2/24/05 "Seriously hilarious"

2/22/05 Connect-the-dots authorship

1/22/05 When the plagiarists punish the plagiarists

1/9/05 This would be a joke if it weren't so serious

1/8/05 Not a joke

1/6/05 >snore<

12/29/04 "The filthy bastards stole my stuff!"

12/23/04 Cheat sheets, international style

12/21/04 The inescapable weirdness of being

12/18/04 Candace Spigelman

12/14/04 Patents, Pt. 2

12/13/04 Plagiarism metaphors

12/12/04 Cause & effect

12/7/04 Next book

12/6/04 Shattered Glass (2003)

12/5/04 Citation pissing matches

12/2/04 Yum, yum, yum.

11/29/04 An (ir)reverence for sources

11/20/04 But then there's this

11/20/04 Property fundamentalism

11/19/04 Media perspectives on authority

11/15/04 Powell's resignation

11/10/04 Student authorship in the UK

Posted by senioritis at 10:27 PM | Comments (0)

Growing up segregated

It does me good to read the (somewhat garbled) story of Joan C. Browning, a white woman four years older than I. She grew up in Georgia; I in West Virginia. She's now in West Virginia, in my home county; I in New York. I read eagerly between the lines of her story, driven by her statement that, growing up, her only contact with African Americans was with those whom her family hired to pick cotton. For me, the only contact was with Josie Brown, who came in once a week to do our ironing.

Joan's story is much more compelling than mine: she became a Freedom Rider and got herself expelled from college and jailed for her convictions. So I read not only to connect her experience with mine but also to admire someone whose life was not just a living of but a dedication to her convictions. For me, the living of has had to suffice. I deeply admire people like Joan Browning and Sandra Jamieson, whose personal convictions not only inform their work but at least some of the time become their work.

People ask me sometimes how I could have grown up white in the apartheid South and have developed the convictions I have. I don't have an explanation, except to say that somehow racial justice and integration seem not only just but logical. People actually can make choices other than those presented by their environment. I wonder whether Joan could explain it any better.

Posted by senioritis at 07:16 AM | Comments (0)

March 14, 2005

Today's conversions from LP to CD

Dr. John, Dr. John Plays Mac Rebennack (1981)
Joanne Brackeen, Keyed In (1979)—w/ Eddie Gomez & Jack deJohnette
The Jimmy Guiffree 4, Quasar (1985)
John Coltrane & Don Cherry, The Avant-Garde (1960)
Tommy Flanagan, Trinity (1975)
Ron Carter, Yellow & Green (1976)
Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, Love Devotion Surrender (1973)
Andy Summers & Robert Fripp, I Advance Masked (1982)

Pretty exciting. I'm especially delighted to have Yellow & Green on CD; it's a wonderful album. And I'm really curious to listen to the Summers & Fripp. I'm a great fan of Robert Fripp, and I don't think we listened to this album much before we switched over to CDs and basically forgot about our LPs.

Posted by senioritis at 07:33 PM | Comments (0)

Boycotts

Last week G & J told me about an Amazon boycott that is of five years' duration. First I'd heard of it. I would hardly describe myself as a person on the cutting edge. But I am a person who believes in boycotts, having seen the success of the venerable Nestle boycott. And I'm a person who individually endeavors not to truck with what I consider to be reprehensible corporations. (We'll not even talk about whether there's any other kind, okay?) Hence stories like this make me glad that I've just been saying "no" to Wal-Mart since they first emerged on the national scene, gutting local businesses.

Posted by senioritis at 06:11 PM | Comments (2)

The procrastinator's diary

8:06 a.m. Resolve to quit procrastinating and start writing.
8:07 a.m. Realize I need to make a pot of coffee. Do some kitchen cleanup whilst the coffee brews. Start a load of laundry.
8:25 a.m. Start working.
8:30 a.m. Cat barfs on desk. (Note to self: do not try to steer an about-to-hurl cat; you just wind up with barf on your books.)
8:40 a.m. Sign the papers to buy the truck.
8:45 a.m. Check the weather forecast to see when you can go cycling today.
8:50 a.m. Note the stray cat sauntering down the sidewalk.
8:55 a.m. Decide to change the CD rotation. Take out Chuco Valdés and Bessie Smith; insert Wet Willie and U2.
9:17 a.m. Decide to blog your procrastination. Make sure to include lots of gratuitous internal links whose URLs you have to track down.
9:24 a.m. Decide to quit procrastinating. Write.
9:46 a.m. Pause to listen to the Black Eyed Peas' "Where Is the Love."
10:02 a.m. Check email.
10:40 a.m. Having worked for an entire half hour uninterrupted, take a 15-minute break to refresh concentration. Start a new load of laundry; feed Fred & Geraldine; start a yam for lunch; open the kitchen window (even though it's only 26° out there) because the oven's smoking so.
11:15 a.m. Return to writing.
1:30 p.m. Decide not to go cycling (it's cold & windy, anyhow) and not to go shopping today, so I can finish the task at hand. Wish Chapter 16 would quit crashing MS Word.
1:45 p.m. Commiserate with the packing plights of the C's-bound. Restart iMac.
2:30 p.m. Brain-fried. Call it a day. In addition to being an ADD procrastinator, I'm still experiencing lingering effects of the concussion 8 weeks ago. I just don't have my usual intellectual stamina. Sucks to be me. Great excuse to go watch TV.

Posted by senioritis at 09:17 AM | Comments (0)

And about procrastination

Okay, it's 8:06 a.m., and I've made four entries on my two blogs. That's a sure sign of serious procrastination. Next I'll be opening iChat and email. Nyet. Time to get out of Safari and into Microsoft Word. Time to crack open those chapters; only 56 days till the next deadline.

Posted by senioritis at 08:06 AM | Comments (2)

About media politics

Like everybody on the left, I am simply weary of the phrase "liberal media." Irritated by the latest treatment of the issue—irritated not so much by what the NYT is saying but by the very assumptions that drive the conversation—I'll recklessly say what I actually do believe: the media seem to be liberal because they are constrained by codes of ethics that require them to verify what they are saying.


Mr. Fertik maintains that the blurring of boundaries has benefited left-wing bloggers less than their adversaries on the right, saying that reports posted on conservative blogs more easily make the jump to the main news media. "The way we perceive it," he said, "is that right-wing bloggers are able to invent stories, get them out on Drudge, get them on Rush Limbaugh, get them on Fox, and pretty soon that spills over into the mainstream media. We, the progressives, we don't have that kind of network to work with."

I actually do agree with Fertik. I'm thinking here of the medieval textual inventions (the Donation of Constantine comes to mind) that were not regarded as forgery because they told God's truth. (For a terrific source on this, see Constable, Giles. "Forgery and Plagiarism in the Middle Ages." Archiv für Diplomatik, Schriftgeschichte, Siegel-und Wappenkunde 29 (1983): 1-41.) The reasoning was that it's okay to tamper with material fact when one is advancing transcendent truth. That same reasoning, I believe, propels political fabrications such as the metrosexual Kerry story just before the 2004 election. I am not saying that conservatives lie and liberals tell the truth; rather, I'm suggesting that conservatives work from a more metaphysical sense of truth, and that they therefore can have clean consciences when they fabricate data in order to advance that transcendent truth.

Posted by senioritis at 07:49 AM | Comments (0)

Regarding women & blogging

Some shared characteristics with female columnists?

Posted by senioritis at 07:39 AM | Comments (0)

Wikilecture

It's the distance-ed dream:


Milad Doueihi, a communications and contemporary society instructor at Johns Hopkins, said that this summer, students will be able to listen to his lectures anytime: He will broadcast them on the class wiki using his iPod -- a technology called -- what else? -- podcasting.


"It's much more productive," he said, as though sitting in a classroom were hopelessly outdated.


And okay. I've got nothing against distance ed, and this sounds like an interesting twist. It's also interesting to me, though, that what gets challenged in this sound byte is not the lecture but the classroom. And regarding the de/merits of the lecture: if you haven't already read it, check out the conversation at Collin vs. Blog.

Posted by senioritis at 07:11 AM | Comments (0)

March 13, 2005

Here we go again

I remember what lots of people were saying after the B*** debacle last fall: the Democrats have to claim the moral high ground, stand up for what they stand for, rather than increasingly trying to remake themselves in the Republican mold. Hence it's with a too-familiar sinking feeling in my stomach that I read this report in the Guardian:


Most significantly of all, [Clinton] has embarked on a transformation of her public image from liberal feminist to conservative Democrat, strong on defence, espousing homespun values and with a fondness for prayer.

For a public audience who see Clinton as a pillar of the left-leaning Democrat establishment, this is nothing short of a revolution. But she and her advisers believe it has to be done if the Democrats are to reach out to America's middle ground and take back the White House.


Ah, shit. Shit!

Posted by senioritis at 09:25 PM | Comments (0)

60s music

Teakettle just decided that iTunes was going to play a rotation from the 60s music playlist. She decided we were going to start with the Beach Boys' "Surfin USA." I wasn't sure I was going to be able to handle that. We went on to the Chiffons' "He's So Fine"; we've just finished Mingus' "Hora Decubitis"; Canned Heat's "Fried Hockey Boogie" is underway; and I'm starting to think my cat is actually a musical genius.

Posted by senioritis at 07:17 AM | Comments (0)

Tom and Becky's truck

It's black, and it's sitting on a dealer's lot in Buffalo, and if they don't sell it today, our dealer will be able to claim it for us tomorrow morning. Fingers crossed.

Posted by senioritis at 06:23 AM | Comments (0)

March 12, 2005

Mitosis, telophase

At least for the nonce, I'm going to be keeping what I'd roughly characterize as "personal journal" entries on a separate blog, Upstate. We'll see how that goes, and I'll appreciate hearing what others think of my making the split. I decided to do this as a way of trying to achieve a little more focus in my blog, along the lines of what I so much admire in Collin's and Madeline's blogs. I'm not wanting to maintain two mutually exclusive blogs; just achieve a bit of focus and still be able to blather about whatever I want (logorrhea being one of my ongoing afflictions). Observations about intellectual property will clearly be on this blog; complaints about the weather on the other; and entries about popular music in some blurry place in between. I'm fine with blurring; I prefer it to overdetermination. But I do admire focus. It's my new god-term.

Posted by senioritis at 10:29 PM | Comments (5)

It just keeps on keepin on

Lawrence Summerswotta guy.

Posted by senioritis at 08:07 AM | Comments (0)

The Concert for Bangladesh

Among the old LPs that BP has recently copied to CDs is The Concert for Bangladesh. Listening to it has been something of a shock. We're accustomed to being old and are fairly comfortable with it (though I could do without the aches and pains, and I wish I could've recovered from the concussion a little more rapidly). We also have musical tastes that run the chronological spectrum from Bix Beiderbecke to Killers.

Still, The Concert for Bangladesh was a shock. I haven't listened to it for years and years. In its day, it was the epitome of cool. It was a benefit concert. Since then, Farm Aid, Live Aid, etc., have made benefit concerts mundane, but in 1971 it was a somewhat fresher concept. It was during George Harrison's earnest and intriguing collaboration with Ravi Shankar. The cognoscenti knew that it was Bob Dylan's first performance since his motorcycle accident. The Concert for Bangladesh was just cool.

And now, to my shock, it is an antiquarian relic. Listening to it for the first time in well over 20 years, I was stunned by how quaint it sounded. And that precipitated one of those Moments for me. They don't come often, which maybe means they're a bit harder on me when they do: The Concert for Bangladesh is old and quaint, and so am I. All that cool from 1971 is now just a little funny.

I got over it, and now I'm again enjoying the music. I played Shankar's long piece on continuous loop yesterday morning for a couple of hours, and it was pure pleasure. The morning is sunny, the snow is deep, and I think I'll go snowshoeing.

Posted by senioritis at 07:25 AM | Comments (0)

March 11, 2005

File sharing

Copyleft commonplace entry: Lessig's Wilco.

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Restored post: Self-antifoundationalism

Just before I hit the autodestruct button on my blog last night, I put up a post that Samantha and Donna (and perhaps others) wanted to respond to. It's a post that I'd like to continue the conversation on, so here it is again—and in this restored version, people can comment on it:

In class today E made the mistake of remarking on the elision of African Americans in histories of composition. Hence my class was treated to a fine example of just how antifoundationalist I am: I don't even regard my own syllabus as sacrosanct. (And what more sacred artifact could a teacher possibly worship?) So, pushed over the precipice by E, I am succumbing to the temptation to lead the entire class into the intellectual morass in which I find myself: trying to contextualize the rise of composition in the socioeconomic conditions of the U.S. We're going to read Nell Irvin Painter, damn it. The labor history gets a little dry but is well worth the effort. And the juxtaposition of that raced labor history with the rise of composition is (from my perspective, anyhow) kinetic. Maybe one of my Esteemed Grad Students will decide to wade through my intellectual morass and do some serious scholarly inquiry into the question. (The dear hope of every grad school teacher, no doubt. But hey‚ C has taken up the historicizing of Porter Perrin, so lightning could strike again!)

Samantha emailed me her response:
It sounds like you need the book project that I recently finished. Now if you can just hold off until I can get it published everything will be good. My project looks at histories of writing instruction for AAs from the beginning of HBCUs to present. I think it's a great book, but I'm a little biased. That's worse than saying "My mother says I'm cute"!
Here's Donna's response—though hilariously, her platform won't let me respond to it! So I'll respond here, to both Donna and Samantha: This is a question that completely energizes me (and Samantha, I can't wait to read your book; it sounds wonderful). Answering it completely overwhelms me. It requires more knowledge of U.S. social history from the period than I'm able to undertake solo, even though my partner is an historian. I'm thinking it's a project that requires some collaborative effort—between several compositionists, in a grad seminar, or something along that line. I'll unquestionably continue to noodle with it, and it's probably a good idea for me to present an updated version of it at next year's C's. But I doubt that I'll single-handedly be able to bring it to enough closure that it will become a solo-authored book. It needs to be, though. The erasure of race in the causal histories of comp studies is, in Certeau's terms, not an innocent one. As you can see when I juxtapose my scanty social history of U.S. race, ethnic, and class relations with my more extensive knowledge of comp history, I think there's quite a lot going on here. At the very least, it is intriguing. And I suspect that one might eventually be able to argue convincingly that the rise of comp studies is deeply implicated in those race, ethnic, and class relations, far beyond the obligatory nods to the Morrill Acts. Being able to stand behind that claim will, however, require a lot more research.

Posted by senioritis at 12:09 PM | Comments (4)

Just how clueless can one blogger be?

Pretty clueless, is the answer. First I delete my blog; then when I set up a partially restored version, I set the time for someplace in Russia. So my first post is the wrong date, wrong time. Good grief. For the historical record, I set up Schenectady Synecdoche at something like 10:00 p.m. March 10. Eastern Standard Time. U.S.A. Planet Earth (I think).

Meanwhile, out there in the blogosphere are all my previous posts on StepAside. I've put monthly StepAside archives down in the right-hand menu of this Version 2 of my blog, The Blog Now Known as Schenectady Synecdoche. I don't know how to restore category links to those posts; I'll just have to start over in that regard, I think. (The moral of this story is, the "delete this blog" button will actually delete your blog! Who knew? The Moveable Type platform just does not have a sense of humor, much less an "I forgive your stupidity" button.) At least I can salvage chronological archives—except for the posts from the first 10 days of March. Here are individual links to those:

Self-antifoundationalism

The coffee update

Macro & micro

Local press coverage, CUWBB

Conference finals notes

Who knew?

This just in—

The meaning of it all

Not to be missed

Finals that matter

Making a list, checking it twice

Regarding coffee

Too late—

An opportunity for profit?

Just over the top

Cheating prevention

I could do with a little less of

About SU

Ten musicians I wouldn't want to live without

Plagiarists = assholes?

And this is what secondary teachers will have to teach to

The snowshoe report

More signs of spring

Posted by senioritis at 10:08 AM | Comments (4)

It's only temporary! (I think)

I know: you're going, like, "Dude? WT--?" Well, I was archiving StepAside ce soir and deleted the dang thing. (Notice I've gotten through those two sentences without actually swearing. When I was talking in a fairly loud voice w/ BP in the grocery store yesterday and used the "F" word, I realized I was getting just a teensy bit far gone in my Tourette's.) It's archived, it's archived, and perhaps a guru will have better luck figuring out how to restore it than I have. Meanwhile, this temporary site, just to allow me to continue blabbing in the absence of the archive of my digital self. And hey, it gives me an excuse to use the blogtitle that I've decided is actually a lot cooler than StepAside, anyhow. I do realize that I don't live in Schenectady, but on the other hand, I've spent the night there, so that should count. Nobody was understanding what I meant by "StepAside," anyhow. In case you're wondering, it was a play (a rather obscure one, I now realize) on the "senioritis" bloggername: stepping aside is what everybody can't wait for fossilized senior faculty to do. I like "Schenectady Synecdoche" better (especially since I pirated it from Collin): it means absolutely nothing, but it's funny as — heck.

Posted by senioritis at 08:39 AM | Comments (10)