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Do Not Be Afraid
Image: “Don’t be afraid to fail: by Flickr user Kewl under Creative Commons License 2.0 2012 was a good year. I got my PhD, I got married, and I got my first full-time job. (Yes, my first one; being a...
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I had major plans for my “winter break.” I say “winter break” instead of just plain winter break because there is no such thing as a break when you work in student support, at least not at my school....
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Aural Memories (Or, My Husband’s Play-by-Play Voice)
I met my husband in New York. He was a play-by-play broadcaster for a minor league baseball team. I was a graduate student whose only connection to the sports world was through her father, a big...
View ArticleThe Altac Chronicles, Episode 1: Job (In)Security
Mid February, and Spring Training was days away. He was in Houston, the day after the press conference that announced he was the new voice of the Astros. I went to work because, well, it’s what I do on...
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Writing: Help Wanted
“Writing” by Flickr user ^Missi^ under Creative Commons 2.0 License My time as Graduate Writing Specialist is coming to an end in a few weeks, as I have mentioned in my Altac Chronicles. However, I am...
View ArticleThe Altac Chronicles, A Break in Our Regularly Scheduled Programming: Altac...
If you’ve read some of my other blog posts, by now you know that I am on the alternative academic career track. Why I am on this track versus the tenure track or versus any other career track is a...
View ArticleMLA 2014 Panel: Accepted
***Reblogged from my site at MLA Commons Back in January, with an MLA Convention high, I started thinking about what a panel about graduate student writing support would look like. Through my work as a...
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Friday Free Writing #2: Getting Personal
I now have a name for my Friday series on writing questions/queries/quandries: Friday Free Writing. Just thought of it this morning as I was getting ready to go to daycare. (Inspiration strikes in the...
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The Altac Chronicles #4: #thefreelancelife
A question every freelancer asks him/herself: what am I good at?“CFC09.153″ by Flickr user Dyana Valentine, CC BY-NC-ND-2.0 Every time I tweet some random observation regarding my work as a freelancer,...
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The Sour Taste of Rejection
When life gives you lemons, and all that jazz. “Lemons” by Flickr user Daniella Segura, CC-BY My husband recently made it to his dream job, becoming a play by play radio broadcaster for a major league...
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