Thank you, and Douglas as well. I've larked with this on and off for a few
years but this is the first time I got a "call" to try to make a sole-income
gig out of it by slamming three courses into one semester. It's slightly
intimidating and the workload promises to be rather intense. But nothing is
quite as motivating as "Gimme 1/3 of a pound of Schickhaus bologna sliced
very thin?"
Start today with the late afternoon faculty reception and workshops on Group
Strategies for Classroom Management. I don't suppose I ought to mention the
whip, chair, and gun--certainly not the firs day.
ken
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Behalf Of Frederick Pollack
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:28 AM
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Subject: Re: Heritage (was Re: composing on horseback)
Good luck, colleague.
> On 26-Aug-08, at 3:43 PM, Kenneth Wolman wrote:
>
>> That phase of my life ends Saturday. Assuming the transcripts get there
>> and nobody backstabs me on letters of reference, I get to become a
>> reasonably well-paid Adjunct Something (rank and money to be determined)
>> in a community college English department. One semester at a time.
>> I'll risk it and my car falling apart. It's where I belong. My "kids"
>> will get from me life lessons they never expected, unless they've worked
>> in crap jobs too. Every community college I've taught in brought me
>> lessons about survival from the students.
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>
> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
>
http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.h
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>
> A little planet blues, for the
> deathwatch.
> A season of rictus riffs.
>
> Dennis Lee
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