I took Junior to the store today and we ended up in the swimsuit section. Junior is currently teaching herself to swim in the bathtub and likes to run head-long into the ocean — she laughs hysterically when a wave knocks her down and appears to be totally unconcerned about her inability to swim. We’re [...]
Archive for April, 2008
This also needs to stop…
Posted in adventures with child, gender on April 30, 2008 | 5 Comments »
This needs to stop…
Posted in politics, sports on April 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Mr. Me and I live by two simple truths. The first is that there is a causal relationship between us buying packs of tickets to sporting events and the team doing much worse than expected (the best example of this being our influence on the 2004-05 Timberwolves season that was marred by contract disputes, incredibly selfish play [...]
What’s a few teeth?
Posted in incarcerated parents, prison reentry on April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The San Jose Mercury News recently reported that some incarcerated women are choosing to have rotting teeth pulled, rather than fixed, in order to gain entry into prison programs that would allow them to reunite with their children. Why, you ask? Because the wait for a dentist can take up to a year and inmates [...]
I’ve discovered something worse than “the reviewers hated it…”
Posted in on the tenure track, research, writing on April 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I sent a paper out a few months ago, aimed silly-high, assumed it would get rejected, and went on about my business.
It did get rejected but the reviewers didn’t hate it. They bought the method, believed my results, but basically wanted the paper I’m currently working on. In summary, I sent the ‘here’s the effect’ [...]
But what of the pepper?
Posted in teaching on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently evaluations on rate my professor correlate well with more ‘respected’ evaluation systems, so it’s either just as good or just as bad as others we take more seriously.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but what of the pepper? What does it mean? I’m a person who thinks evaluation is good (pretty much because mine are high*), but I’d also [...]
best google searches
Posted in blogging on April 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been keeping an informal list of my favorite searches that bring people to my blog. The top four are:
smartest professor ever
petifiles why they are the way they are
brett farv
is incarceration the best way to control crime?
How things change…
Posted in Uncategorized on April 18, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I’ll be celebrating my third annual 29th birthday* tomorrow and it reminded me of how things have changed… Last year, Mr. Me, a neighbor, and many much-loved (and much-missed) friends threw me a big party and we stayed up until the wee hours of the morning laughing, drinking to excess, and playing poker.
This year, I plan [...]
thoughts on public sociology and the tenure process…
Posted in on the tenure track, politics, research on April 17, 2008 | 6 Comments »
i attended a great discussion this week on public sociology, engaged sociology, applied sociology, embedded sociology, whatever the heck you want to call it… i guess i fancy myself one — or, really, i fancy myself becoming one once my academic reputation allows for it. or, to be more clear, i fancy myself combining extra-academic policy sociology [...]
The first foray into graduate teaching.
Posted in teaching on April 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
a couple of months ago, i asked for advice on how to teach a good grad seminar. none of you thought to tell me the most important rule: BRING A COMPLETE SYLLABUS TO CLASS WITH YOU!
last week i started teaching my first grad seminar — suffice it to say, i obsessed a bit about the first impression, [...]
Things I wish I hadn’t done in grad school or… an open letter of apology (filled with sheepishness) to my advisor, dissertation committee members, director of graduate studies, and assorted others
Posted in mentors, on the tenure track, research, writing on April 9, 2008 | 11 Comments »
It seems to me that the first year out of graduate school is characterized by much reflection on what you would do differently, if given the chance.* Many of the things that I now notice that students should NOT do also apply to new assistant professors. NOTE: I’m not talking about this with respect to [...]
