A new faculty member faces his demons
Author Archives: Pat Bowne
#diediploidscum
Somebody came up to me and said “I hear you used to attend the Ginormous Convention of Eukaryotic Organisms, do you think that would be a good event to take students to?” Now, I flatter myself that I know our … Continue reading
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Do Accreditors give a darn about adjunctification? Let’s find out!
I use this blog mostly for stuff related to my writing and the occasional knitting pattern, but you can’t be in academia these days without noticing that it’s turning into a sweatshop, where PhDs are lucky if they make a … Continue reading
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The only noun that matters
I sold a Royal Academy story that I’d been shopping around for a while. It was one I hadn’t planned to write, but the leading character got hold of me and more or less demanded to be written about. I … Continue reading
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I Guess I’m Really Self-Published Now …
That’s the cover to my first PRINT book — a compilation of the four Royal Academy novellas, all done up in paperback for holiday gifting. A big shoutout to Melissa from CreateSpace, who made this as painless as possible. And … Continue reading
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Bleg Pays Off
“So gentle and mild is the far-distant air, And the forests and fields are so clean and so rare, Blue forest on white gleaming prairie, The grandeur of nature to all is unfurled, It seems as if spring could fill … Continue reading
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The Mini-career roars along
I’ve posted before about my mini-scale writing career, and how it’s providing everything an author could want — only in smaller doses, without paparazzi. So I’ve received two fan emails, met two fans at conferences for lunch, posted one piece … Continue reading
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Call it Fred
I hang around on a conservative blog, and every now and then its members get into a flurry of definition. It suddenly matters, more than anything else, whether a particular thing is ‘conservative’ or not. Is unbridled capitalism conservative? Is … Continue reading
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Kicking and Screaming
Here’s what I want: I want a dollar for every hour I’ve spent changing my life to cope with unnecessary upgrades. Why am I ranting? Right now, it’s because of Windows 7. Our school implemented Windows 7 over the summer, … Continue reading
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The Tone Argument
When I was in research science, nobody had yet identified the ‘tone argument.’ Nevertheless, I understood that it was irrelevant. The value of somebody’s paper lay in the Materials and methods and Results sections, not in the Introduction and Discussion … Continue reading
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Unions!
Finally a group of adjuncts have managed to form a working union! Pretty amazing. How recently was it that I was complaining about how non-insurrectionist downtrodden PhDs were? I’m happy to be proved wrong. I have mixed feelings about unions. … Continue reading
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