Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
1/14: it may actually work
Every 3 years or so I teach a course entitled "Etymology and Philology." There's no set curriculum for the course, so every time it comes around I tinker with it a bit (or more than a bit). Often I plan to do too many different things in the course, and that ends up diluting each individual thing too much. I think it's still been a worthwhile experience for the students, but I haven't been entirely happy with it from a pedagogical perspective. It's one of my courses this semester, and this time I think I really do have a sane, focused plan. Our first class meeting today felt grounded and good. Good students, sound syllabus, comfortable classroom atmosphere. Honestly: yay.
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