technomadic
notes from the ever-emerging field
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ph.d dropout?
- AL: wait, you quit? 0_o
- Jenny Ryan: not exactly.
- Jenny Ryan: i took a leave of absence.
- AL: oh hm
- AL: taking a break?
- AL: or... got any plan?
- Jenny Ryan: http://jennyryan.net
- Jenny Ryan: you could say that
- AL: the pyre COOL
- Jenny Ryan: my advisor didn't get it..
- AL: #FAIL
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It’s hard to tell young people that universities recognize that their idealism and energy — and lack of information — are an exploitable resource. For universities, the impact of graduate programs on the lives of those students is an acceptable externality, like dumping toxins into a river. If you cannot find a tenure-track position, your university will no longer court you; it will pretend you do not exist and will act as if your unemployability is entirely your fault. It will make you feel ashamed, and you will probably just disappear, convinced it’s right rather than that the game was rigged from the beginning.
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Once i got into teaching it got lots better - I enjoy being innovative in teaching, using technology and active learner teaching methods. I’d be happy to give you advice to help you get through grad school, because with your background so far, with a PhD, you would be in a good position to get a tenure track job - which is gold today! I will have an opening here next year and I would love to have someone like you in the position..! so, I hope you will think over doing grad school a little more..and ask me if you need any advice.
You are in the cutting edge field, of course it will change dramatically all the time, but it will be with us for a long time and it is a valuable expertise to have.
— Communication Professor whose class I Skype’d into yesterday. To be preserved and revisited whenever I begin to contemplate leaving academia…(Source: newtab)
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This is the sema of slavery and mastery dancing together. This is not being. Neither words, nor any natural fact can express this.
— Rumi -
now to find some puddles…
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john durham peters: pillaged. exam 2: through.
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workspace activated!
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analog mind map.
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5♠7♥
- Cloud: (hung over) hey jenny
- Cloud: you hangin in there?
- Cloud: we had fire dancing, Djs, Cocktails, and all my dreams came true
- Cloud: not a bad birthday party!
- tunabananas: happy birthday luv!
- tunabananas: happy to hear it was a blast ~
- Cloud: ....well minus you
- Cloud: o well
- Cloud: someday soon
- Cloud: are you feeling a bit better Jenny?
- Cloud: hope you got some rest over the weekend
- tunabananas: i wrote 11 pages *shrug*
- tunabananas: weekend means nothing to me
- Cloud: hey!
- Cloud: that is good tho
- Cloud: you got work done
- Cloud: (I know you are sullen about the whole thing
- Cloud: but you are at least closer
- tunabananas: meh
- tunabananas: crazy convoluted essay
- Cloud: maybe you just need a hug?
- tunabananas: moo
- Cloud: moo? you need some milk?
- Cloud: what the hell are you talking about?
- Cloud: you brain has turned to paste!
- Cloud: PARADOX: Art Doesn't Make SENSE Doesn't Make Art
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- Cloud: you are the 7 of hearts and the 5 of spades(*like me!)
- Cloud: meaning the card of: spiritual love and the card of: the wanderer
- Cloud: wow!
- tunabananas: ooh, i love that
- Cloud: ya you're pretty neat!
- tunabananas: according to da cardz newayz
- tunabananas: we is wandering katz
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- Cloud: in your case it has to do with your very free spirit and your mind's acceptance of it's fate= having a battle royal for control
- Cloud: your brain knows that this is good for you
- Cloud: but your spirit is freaking out like a caged animal
- Cloud: (by good for you - I mean in a greater sense over you life time)
- Cloud: so basically your brain knows you need to do this so you make yourself walk this uncomfortable path
- Cloud: all the while your more animalistic half is freaking out because all it knows is the now.
- Cloud: thus your body is making you self destructive because it thinks it's doomed already.
