Miscellanea
Things I need to remember:
• Asking for help is not, as it turns out, fatal.
• Laughing is easier than pulling your hair out, and doesn't have the unfortunate side effect of making you look like a plague victim.
• Even the biggest tasks can be defeated if taken a bit at a time.
• I can write a paper the night before it's due, but the results are not all they could be.
• Be thorough, but focused.
• Trust yourself.
• Honesty, always.
Historians are the Cassandras of the Humanities
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Date: June 25th, 2011 12:10 am (UTC)As far as Handmaid's Tale, I'm actually considering it; I love that book! In fact, I almost put in on the book list, but I figured I needed to see if I have time for it in the syllabus. It IS freshman, after all, and this school doesn't get a lot of adult students, so it's 'fresh out of highschool' freshman at that! The fact that I'm having them read Ibsen and Thomas More is daring enough, or so my colleagues tell me! Anyway, I have until mid July or so to add books before the bookstore will start to give me grief, so if I get all the other reading parceled out and have time for it I'll add it for sure.