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
5/17: trying
...various strategies to get out of a funk (caused by a few not-so-great comments on my student feedback forms from the semester). I went for a walk, talked with a friend (but not about the comments), made a nice soup for dinner, worked on a hand-out for next year that will (I hope) explain some of the things that students didn't like this year, and did some bureaucratic work so that the semester's end-tying can be over sooner rather than later. The not-so-great comments were in the definite minority, and I need to remember that. But it felt like they had animus behind them, so much so that the students' emotions seem to have distorted facts about what I did / didn't do, and that unsettled me.
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