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Melissa, I like this idea/call to arms. Finding "a way to express it" might be the hardest part.
Ran into this question again recently: what is atheist art? Is it simply art made by atheists? If it's more than that, what are the common elements (if any)?
My first thought is usually the artists who make precise drawings of fossils. Obviously this is more technical than 'artistic' but it might be a useful starting point? Example: have we really acquainted ourselves with the early hominids?
Part of me still reacts to their apparent crudeness, etc., the idea that I'm a descendant of *them*. Some times I feel like a hypocrite? This see-saws with fascination, etc. (on many different levels). To me this is an interesting contradiction that maybe should be explored.
I started this discussion (link below) for other reasons (partly to show that lots of digital tools are available). Maybe it could also be useful in answering this question (or variations of it): what is our face to face or eye to eye response to early humans?
Already I've thought of a bunch of parallel questions/issues, ie. the roots of racism, etc. To what degree do theists recoil just because hominids look the way they do?
Hope others will post some thoughts of their own. :)
I'm interested! I'm working on some fiction right now that's not religious but isn't explicitly Atheist, however I have a few projects in mind that focus on the psychology of religion. I would be glad to be a part of an Atheist art project.
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - At the entrance to South Beach and nestled between luxury condominiums is what most residents regard as an eyesore: a plot of undeveloped land with an empty, hurricane-battered hospital next door.
"It's been sitting there as an eyesore. I know some people call it bombed-out Beirut," said Christine Florez with the West Avenue Corridor Neighborhood Association.
The land is located between Alton Road and West Avenue, adjacent to the Northbound MacArthur Causeway exit ramp.
After some complex big-budget plans that were unveiled in May, a new design by developer Crescent Heights was presented to residents at a meeting Tuesday night.
"In my five years on the planning board, it is by far the largest project that we have ever seen," said Miami Beach Planning Board member Henry Stolar.
The new designs, however, are more scaled back than the original project.
South Shore hospital, which was damaged by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 and never repaired, won't be knocked down; it will be remodeled.
Along with a lower development, the buildings will house 440 apartments for rent. Underneath the apartments would be retail space for shops and small restaurants. Parking would be underground to accommodate 1,073 cars.
Chaim Elkoby, director of special projects for Crescent Heights, said the location will be an alternative to Lincoln Road, but not a competitor.
"This is more of a hang out spot. We like to look at it as an amenity area where people come and enjoy the space and there are smaller restaurants. Smaller juice bars," Elkoby said.
People who live near the future project and along West Avenue expressed concerns about parking and traffic.
"With traffic coming down Alton Road and them changing Alton Road, and now changing West Avenue, how are we going to get home?" said resident Bobby Duke.
Beach resident Alejandro Arce said he was tired of the meetings and was ready for the dilapidated area to change for good.
"Of course I want to see it done. It is something that is needed. It is a beautiful thing. Why they oppose something that's so beautiful?" said Arce.
"The seven of us on the planning board have the obligation to look at it independently and make sure everything is done right," said Stolar.
Elkoby said he would arrange a future meeting with a traffic engineer so residents could learn about plans to accommodate more traffic.
Crescent Heights will make its presentation before the Miami Beach Planning Board on February 26th.
Elkoby said he is hopeful, after a final review and approval process from the city, construction can begin in November. The development is expected to take 24 months to finish.
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We're still adjusting to the name change, but we like it and hope you do
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As "Shakespeare" once "said" ... a Captain Excelsior by any other name
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Captain Excelsior book coming soon!Zach and I are very excited to announce that a Captain Excelsior book will be coming out in November 2010 from IDW. This book will contain some extra bonus material never seen before, so even if you've read the whole story you'll still want to pick up a copy. And probably a copy for all your family members. This will also make an excellent Christmas present for all your friends! Pre-ordering is available right now at Amazon.com!
The final cover art will most likely be a bit different from the image above. We''ll post the final cover here when it''s completed.
Captain Stupendous is Copyright Chris Jones and Zach Weiner 2007-2010.


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Imagine that your company is hosting an annual fundraiser and you're holding an event. You've tackled everything from booking to signing contracts to lining up entertainment and beverage service. Unfortunately, at the last minute a storm creeps in and affects inbound flights to your area. Now you have to cancel or rain check your event. Not only will your business suffer; you could be out a good deal of money.
Cancelling any major event can cost your organizations thousands if not millions of dollars. It is for this very reason that countless carriers now recommend business owners get event cancellation insurance to protect their company.
Event cancellation insurance is used as a defense against lost profits or expenses. Expenses that develop as a result of weather, power loss, terrorism, delay, or even complete cancellation are covered, as is the cost of relocation for the event.
In some cases, event planning can take years. As organizations incur more fees throughout the planning stages, some even struggle to cover expenses of the event, let alone any disruption of it. In the event of a delay or cancellation, a company's resources can easily be depleted. With these and other threats, event cancellation insurance is not an option, it is necessary to protect a company's investments.


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Politico reports:
John McCain's campaign has floated the possibility that Sarah Palin may also suspend her campaign, matching McCain's announcement that he would cease campaigning for president to return to Washington to try to hammer out a fix for the nation's financial meltdown.
As the governor of Alaska, Palin cannot participate in the high-level federal government deliberations on the economy that McCain gave as his reason for suspending his campaign.
Yet, after McCain's dramatic announcement, his campaign chief Steve Schmidt suggested Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, would also suspend her campaign.
Democrats have blasted McCain's move, which includes a call to reschedule his planned Friday debate with Democratic rival Barack Obama, as political posturing, rather than a genuine effort to address the economic crisis.
Asked about Schmidt's comment, given Palin's inability to participate in congressional deliberations, spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt told reporters on a Wednesday evening conference call "We are part of the McCain-Palin campaign. It is one ticket."
But she demurred when asked specifically whether Palin, too, would be suspending her campaign.
Since Palin was selected as McCain's running mate in late August, she's appeared at 21 rallies, most of which were at McCain's side, has yet to hold a press conference, has conducted less than a handful of national media interviews and has pulled out of several fundraising appearances.
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In the glory days of drink writing (2007-2010) it wasn't uncommon to receive a couple of deliveries from the "booze fairy" every month. Who's the booze fairy you ask? That would be whoever was responsible for dropping free spirits off at my door, usually the FedEx guy. Considering most mail is bills, advertising junk, cease and desist letters and demands to appear in court, getting free alcohol was always a pleasant surprise. However, times have changed and America's "party like it's 2007" spending habits have put a damper on the booze mail. One of the last free samples, and possibly the coolest, came back in 2011 and was sent by Knob Creek. It turns out it just wasn't free bourbon, but something more.
In January 2011 I moved out to a peaceful country house, out in farmland, near a little town called Centralia. I've always liked the outdoors and even though there isn't a bar for miles around, it suits me. It is also a place where my two kids are happy. For those that don't know, I am the proud father of a 3-year-old princess and a 5-year-old superhero.
Living in the country is great for my kids. The property has a couple of old barns, lots of fruit trees and tons of bugs to catch. And even my daughter loves catching praying mantis' and calls them "cute". There are also tons of discoveries to be made. Objects that an adult would pass over as nothing, children see and find great value in them.
In the winter of 2011, I received a package from Knob Creek containing a beautiful wooden box, with a bottle of Knob Creek 9-year-old single barrel bourbon and a couple of rocks glasses. Obviously, this was PR material, though way better packaged than most items I've received.
By this point in time I had stopped doing regular spirit reviews. Taste is such a subjective thing, and the Internet has allowed so many people to opine on the subject that I felt my efforts were better directed at other things. The problem was that the PR company had put a decent amount of effort into the package design and I felt a twinge of guilt for not reviewing it. So I put the unopened bottle in my liquor repository and gave the box to my son.
Initially, the box held just a few toys, but my son quickly decided that this box was going to be used to house those things that were most valuable to him. For my son it has become his treasure chest of interesting things.
To date the items in the box include feathers, cards, rocks, coins like rubles and euro's that can be found in my suitcase when I unpack and assorted other weird things like a bleached-out opossum bicuspid. There is also the "certificate" collection. When my son started exploring the farm, he would often spot interesting animals/things, so for his efforts, I would type up and print a certificate with the image of the animal/thing. Those seem particularly important to him. I do find it interesting to go through the box and see what he has collected.
The great thing about the Knob Creek box is that it is well built and will withstand the test of time. In short order I assume my son will outgrow the box, but when he gets older and it is time to reflect on his life, the box will still be there with his childhood collection of assorted oddities.
I've also decided that I am not going to open the bottle of Knob Creek until my son is old enough to drink, which will be another 14 years or so. Though we all know whiskey doesn't age in the bottle, this is more about making connections and adding value to life. Sometimes we need to look forward to things, just because.
Sorry Knob Creek, I haven't tried your single barrel bourbon but I'm sure it will be fantastic. For me this has become a cool opportunity to enjoy something with my son when he is old enough to drink. Thanks for playing a part in my life.
And for anyone worried that my daughter is missing out on her own treasure chest, do not worry, Tropicana provided a beautiful one-off hand painted box back in 2008.
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Warren W. "Barney" Cunningham, 90, an architect and a founding partner of the firm Geddes, Brecher, Qualls and Cunningham, died Jan 24 at his home in Wyndmoor.
Mr. Cunningham's Center City firm had designed many buildings in the area, including the Philadelphia Police Administration Building, best known as "the Roundhouse" because of its circular design, the Franklin Institute's Futures Center and the Moore Building at the University of Pennsylvania.
The firm also designed the campus of Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
Mr. Cunningham retired as a partner in 1994 but continued to work for the firm until it closed in 2006.
He received the American Institute of Architect's John Frederick Harbeson Award in 1996, an award given annually to a member for significant lifetime contributions to the architectural profession.
Born in Philadelphia, he was a graduate of Germantown Academy and earned a bachelor's degree in architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as a Navy pilot in the Pacific theater during World War II and continued to serve in the Naval Reserve for 20 years.
He is survived by daughters Diana Lynn Berndt, Robin Weir and Darcy Connor; six grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. Mr. Cunningham's wife, the former Jo Ann Jones, died in 1991.
A memorial service is being planned. – WF


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Spiritual Training of German-Russian Children and Youth
By Alfred Opp, Vancouver, British Columbia
Edited by Connnie Dahlke, Walla Walla, Washington
The spiritual life of a child born to
German-Russian parents began when he or she was a
newborn. The first visit to church was for the infant's
"Taufe "(baptismal service) that was performed according
to the old traditions and customs brought to South
Russia from Germany. The service was scheduled in
consideration of the health of mother and child and
their ability to attend the service. Prior to the
baptismal service, a Godfather ("Dede") and Godmother
("Doda") were selected for the child by his parents.
It was the duty of the Godparents to be involved in
the spiritual upbringing of the child. Sometimes more
than two Godparents were chosen, if that was what
the parents wished.
We had no resident pastor in the village of Teplitz. If the pastor was in attendance to preach for that Sunday's church service, the baptismal service for infants would then be held the same day the pastor was in town. If no pastor was available, the baptismal service was performed by a Sexton. If the Sexton was not available, the "Kuester-Lehrer" (schoolteacher) was qualified to step in on behalf of the Sexton. In the early pioneer years a church Elder was always available to perform such services - many of these Elders were outstanding in their service to the community and were sometimes more spiritual than the trained itinerant clergy.
During the baptismal service, the parents and the Godparents all stood at the baptismal font. The baby, whether boy or girl, was often attired in the family's heirloom baptismal dress. Generally one of the Godmothers held the infant while the Baptizer performed the ceremony. If the child was not well, the midwife who had assisted with the birth held the infant for the service. Baptisms were family events and many relatives from the village would attend. For the "Taufe," the presiding Pastor (or Sexton or "Kuester-Lehrer ") dipped his hand into the water of the Baptismal font, then touched the forehead of the child to apply a little water onto the infant. Songs relating to Baptism or to the spiritual life of children were sung, songs such as "Dir Herr sei dieses Kind empfohlen "(To You, Lord, we recommend this child), "Ich bin getauft auf Deinen Namen "(I have been baptized in Your name), or "In Dein Reich soll ich O Vater kommen "(Into Your kingdom I shall come, O Father). In the back of most Hymnals was a section of readings for various occasions, and often the spoken part of the service was from the baptismal reading in the Hymnal. When an infant was very weak at birth and not likely to survive long enough to receive a standard baptism at the church, the village Sexton or "Kuester-Lehrer" would be called to perform an emergency baptism in the family home. Every child who was baptized received a beautiful Baptismal Certificate featuring artwork that depicted Jesus holding a little lamb. These became heirloom treasures for the family.
Other than for private family services, infants and very young children were not taken to regular church services. Sometimes young children would be in attendance at special events such as Easter, Christmas, baptism, a funeral or confirmation services. Generally the mother, grandmother, or other elderly relative living in the home would stay at home on Sunday with the very young children. In my family, my parents alternated their church attendance so that one went to church one week and the other went to church the next week. Often a family had a "Madchen" (young woman) who served as a family helper and thereby earned her room and board and sometimes a small allowance - such a position helped young women learn home-making skills and also relieved their parents of an extra mouth at the table. Part of the duty of the "Madchen" was to stay at home with the young children while the parents and the older children attended church. But even very young children were always included in family festive events.
The basic religious training of young children began in the home and was carried out by the parents or grandparents. Family prayer at meals was customary, and some mealtime prayers were short and easily learned by young children. A parent, from time to time, would discuss a spiritual lesson at the meal table, and the reading of a scripture verse was common. My "Opa "Zacher customarily gave a sermon to his family every morning at the breakfast table. Prayer would again be said at the supper table, and bedtime or evening prayers ("Abend Andacht ") were routine, often following a spiritual reading or passage from the Bible. In some homes singing was part of or entirely the routine for evening worship. Children were taught one or more bedtime prayers from a young age. Common bedtime prayers said by young children were "Lieber Heiland mach mich fromm das ich in den Himmel komm" (Loving Savior, grant to me entrance into heaven), or "Bewahre mich vom allem Uebel und behuete mich "(Protect me from all evil and bless me).
In Teplitz, even in 1940, few families had the funds to purchase printed religious material prepared for children or young people. Such things were available but had to be imported. As a rule, we did not have simplified Bible story books, religious magazines or youth papers. Only a few families purchased memory-verse cards; but every household did have at least one Bible, a hymnal, one or two prayer books and usually a catechism. If parents felt a child should memorize a Bible verse, that was up to them - there was no organized program by the church to encourage such memorization by children or youth. Fortunate was the child who had a parent or grandparent with a talent for telling Bible stories. Most parents read straight from the Bible or from one of the spiritual sections in the back of the hymnal. Some Bibles, like the one my "Opa "Zacher possessed, had nice illustrations that helped to hold a child's interest.
Singing was often part of the religious training in the home - German-Russians love to sing, and sing we did.. Not all homes had an organ or piano, so often the singing at home was "a cappella." Sometimes singing was done as a family group in the home and sometimes it was as a community group in church or preparing for a special program. Sometimes the mother or grandmother in the home would sing a song as she went about her household chores. The singing of spiritual songs opened the heart to God and gave a spiritual lift to the day. The permeation of religion into the daily life of most villagers is difficult for people to comprehend today. Children and parents together lived a life that was shaped by spiritual beliefs and activities. The church was considered the center and foundation of village life. Most community social functions were attended by a church Elder or Sexton or sometimes the Pastor when available. Such events were at least closed with prayer and often opened with prayer as well. As children grew and developed, they followed the example of their parents in the home and in the community. Religious upbringing was central to family and community life and provided a very solid foundation to guide the children and youth in all of life's activities. When parents needed to consult with someone for guidance about their child's religious instruction the Godparents were always available as were many relatives, including the grandparents.
The religious instruction of children by the community began when the child was old enough to attend school. In the early days the Bible, the Hymnal and the Catechism were the basic textbooks in the classroom to teach reading, writing and content instruction, including memorization of the subject matter. In the pioneer years, a village Elder would teach Bible class at the school. In later years, after 1865, the Sexton might be the one to come and teach Bible class to the school children. It was part of the school exercises to prepare special church programs such as the Christmas Eve program where students of all ages sang songs and presented spoken pieces.
At about school age, children were also deemed old enough to attend church, but there were no special classes for children. Children sat with a parent or grandparent in the main seating area of the church. Since women sat on the left-hand side of the church and men sat on the right-hand side of the church, the child would sit wherever the parent or grandparent sat. Youth who had been confirmed were allowed to sit upstairs in the balcony, but always with the girls in the left balcony and boys in the right balcony. Since the organ was also situated in the balcony, the organist (often the "Kuester-Lehrer") could keep an eye on what went on. In addition, the pastor in the elevated lectern could also observe what was happening, especially on the boys' side of the balcony. If necessary, a church Elder would have an otherwise unsupervised youngster sit with him downstairs in the church. After marriage, young people sat in the main seating area of the church, not up in the balcony, but still the women sat on the left side of the church and the men on the right side of the church. After church, dinner at home was a family affair. It was common practice for older brothers or sisters who were on their own to stop by their parents' home for Sunday dinner.
All children approaching graduation from seventh grade were enrolled in "Konfirmanden Untericht "(Confirmation classes). These were taught by the Sexton or "Kuester-Lehrer "and generally were held at the school. "Konfirmation" was held in the spring at the close of the school year. The "Konfirmation "class was responsible for decorating the church for the" Konfirmation "service. Greenery and flowers were popular materials with which to decorate the church. When the big day arrived, the class dressed in their best outfits, the boys wearing dark suits and the girls wearing white dresses (after 1915) and often white veils. For my mother's confirmation, her parents purchased a white dress and white stockings for her to wear to the service - it was rare to have purchased clothing in those days, and not many families could afford such luxuries. Godparents of the boys typically gifted their "Patekind" with a pocket watch, a white shirt with a tie, an embroidered handkerchief and socks.
Relatives of the "Konfirmation "class crowded the church for the service. The "Konfirmation "ceremony was always impressive and festive. Each candidate for "Konfirmation" recited their "Lebens Spruch," a speech that had been prepared during their "Konfirmandin Untericht "and replete with Bible passages that gave their philosophy of life. Unfortunate was the young person who failed to spend adequate time memorizing their "Lebens Spruch" and then got stuck midway through the speech with no words to say! At the end of the service, each youth was presented with a hymnal with their name embossed on the cover (paid for by the parents), along with a "Konfirmations Urkunde, a".certificate that was richly decorated with colorful religious art work. People prized their confirmation certificates and often hung them up in their bedrooms.
"Konfirmation" was the transition point between childhood and young adulthood. Afterward, the confirmands would gather at home with parents, grandparents, Godparents and other close family members for a festive dinner. The confirmed young person was presented with gifts - each confirmed young person received several gifts but some received more of some things than others. After confirmation, the next life step for the young person was to enter into an apprenticeship to learn a trade, or to enroll in an advanced course of study at a regional school if the family had enough money. Each young person set about learning life skills needed to prepare them to integrate into the communal life of the village as a worthy and contributing citizen of society. From an early age, each person was educated to be a useful member of society, to respect others and to be respected. This is the way our ancestors had been raised, and they continued to pass on these values as a proud part of our ancestral heritage.
Alfred Opp is the author of "Pawns on the World Stage" - the memoirs of his childhood in Teplitz, Bessarabia and the experiences of his family in war-torn Europe (Poland during 1941-1945 before they fled to East Germany in 1945, then the reconstruction of West Germany 1945-1955).


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Central College rolled up 529 yards, including 340 yards and six touchdowns on the ground, while recording five sacks in a 49-17 triumph over Cornell College to complete an undefeated home season.
Running backs Ross Doehrmann (junior, Williamsburg) and Josh Osborn (freshman, Burlington) rushed for 115 and 95 yards, respectively. It was Doehrmann's first 100-yard game of the season and Osborn's career high. Osborn had two touchdowns in a span of 2:03 in the second quarter, including a 64-yard jaunt, while Doehrmann had one TD and S-back Preston West (senior, Swisher, Cedar Rapids Prairie HS) had two scores and 50 yards on 10 carries. Quarterback Nate Snead (senior, Altoona, Southeast Polk HS) also had a score while running for 12 yards on five carries.
Central improved to 6-2 overall and 5-1 in Iowa Conference play, while completing the 2011 home slate with a 5-0 mark at Ron and Joyce Schipper Stadium.
"We wanted to have the seniors go out winners at home," coach Jeff McMartin said. "I couldn't be happier for them. It's a great group. We've been blessed to have them here the past four years."
The Dutch scored touchdowns on their first five possessions and were up 35-10 at the half.
"I thought we had some good momentum coming off the last game and wanted to make sure we kept moving forward, working hard, continuing to improve and play to our standard," McMartin said. "I thought we did a good job of that in the first half."
Central was scoreless in the third quarter as Cornell (2-5 overall, 0-5 conference) closed the gap to 35-17, but the Dutch pass rush produced some fourth-quarter points. Cornell quarterback Juan Flores, who was sacked five times, was trying to escape the rush when he threw the ball up for grabs. Sophomore defensive lineman Danny Samson (Baxter, CMB HS) corralled it and raced 36 yards to the end zone. West, who bulled his way in from 5 yards out in the second quarter, added a 4-yard TD with 10:30 left to complete the scoring.
Flores completed 23 of 41 passes for 228 yards and one TD with two interceptions. He gained 6 yards on 11 carries.
"They present some real problems to you," McMartin said. "They have a very talented quarterback and a big wide receiver. Their scheme fits their personnel very well and they're well-coached. It was a long day for the defense in keeping that quarterback under wraps."
Defensive back Jake Petersen (senior, Gladbrook, Gladbrook-Reinbeck HS) had eight tackles, including six solos, while linebacker Seth Carson (junior, Woodridge, Ill., Downers Grove South HS) had five stops. Defensive lineman Holden Blythe (senior, Williamsburg) had 2.5 tackles for loss while linebacker Ryan Steinkamp (senior, Carroll, Kuemper Catholic HS) and Samson each had 1.5 tackles for loss. Defensive back Spencer Boeyink (freshman, Pella) had an interception on the game's opening drive to set up Central's first score. It was his second pick of the season.
Snead completed 12 of 22 passes for 174 yards with one interception. Jeremy Snead (senior, Altoona, Southeast Polk HS) had four catches for 85 yards.
It was Central's second straight game with more than 500 yards offense and the third straight time the Dutch have limited their opponent to less than 300 yards.
Central has two road games left on the schedule, starting with a trip to Waverly to face preseason league favorite Wartburg College in a 1 p.m. game next Saturday. The game will be televised on KCRG-TV (Cedar Rapids) and www.kcrg.com and broadcast on KRLS-FM (92.1).


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Feliz Piez wants to die. *He doesn't want to be dead dead, just metaphorically dead so he sets out on a quest to kill himself, write his book, and go to Cuba, and not necessarily in that order.
He is contacted by Milagro, a sage, or perhaps a charlatan, who convinces him he will show him the path to killing himself. Feliz hires a ghost writer to document his life and dying. They work on the book for two years and then Feliz suddenly disappears along with the only copy of the manuscript. The ghost writer has no resources except for a box of scrap notes and his memories. He is greatly impressed with the truths he has gleaned from his conversations with Feliz and feels he cannot, in good conscience, leave these truths, hidden from the world in dusty corner of his study. Combine the oppressive guilt of Dostoyevskys Crime and Punishment, the Romantic quest of Cervantess Don Quixote and the magical thinking of Carlos Castaneda and you get Excerpts from: The Life and Dying of Feliz Piez.
I am a retired Licensed Clinical Therapist. I spent my career of almost thirty years counseling clients with the depression and anxiety brought on by guilt, failure, rejection and the consequences of life choices. I didnt truly understand the depth of their pain until I reached The Age of Grieving and came face to face with the deep despair of my own life of overwhelming guilt and a lack of a sense of forgiveness. Excerpts is my reconstructed healing narrative done with humor and satire and truth.


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especially for my humungous class of intermediate German-learners, not to mention the other stuff I'm supposed to be doing … the reading and writing about, um, you know, that thing I do [if you happen to have dissertation suggestions, please let me know].
And somehow it's already time for Zimmermania to start. Tomorrow. I just realized that don't know what I'm going to knit; this is my first knitalong and I don't want to mess it up with a tardy start. So I went to the stash:
Remember this stuff? It's still gorgeous and springy and lofty — and all that I have on hand in sufficient quantities — not to mention colorful. I really wanted to do something a bit more complex, like the fair isle yoke sweater (or cardigan) from Knitting Around. Given my current work — and stress — load, such an ambitious project seems neither advisable nor feasible. Instead, I think I'll go for a simple seamless raglan sweater. Baby steps. Small goals.
Speaking of baby steps, the easy v-neck raglan is coming along, albeit slowly:
I've finished the raglan increases, separated the sleeves from the body, and am now just knitting the body section. I like my clothes big, so the raglan increases seemed to go on forever, but now I've reached ultimate reading knitting nirvana and can just knit for inches and inches. The weather is starting to turn cool, too … good incentive to keep going.


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Into the light
Cpl. Josh Cooley's life changed in one roadside blast. As he lay in a hospital, family wrangled over his care. But now he's emerging.
By COLLEEN JENKINS, Times Staff Writer
The Marine Corps birthday bash was starting inside the vast ballroom, but the young men in dress blues focused their attention elsewhere. They lined up for a turn to greet the comrade they affectionately called Old Man. They gripped his hand, leaned in close.
"Really good to see you, man."
"You look better than I do."
"Happy birthday."
Some had not seen him since the blast that doctors guessed would kill him. Others visited once at the hospital stateside and found it too hard to return.
He sat now in a wheelchair, tall and straight, silent and proud. His hat hid a scalp still glossy pink from burns, and his formal jacket had been widened with Velcro to accommodate the extra girth from months of near inaction.
He was one of them, even if he no longer seemed all that he was.
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After 17 months of knowing hospitals as home, Cpl. Josh Cooley is breaking out.
It is not yet a return to his pre-Iraq days of Harleys and Pasco Sheriff's Office SWAT cases and Austin Powers impersonations. But the Marine reservist, who endured grave head injuries from a roadside blast in July 2005, is emerging from his physical and mental cage.
His is a measured recovery, marked by subtle advances and life-threatening setbacks. He almost died during skull-repair surgery last summer. He cannot walk unassisted. He cannot talk by normal definitions.
Yet through a basic signing system developed by his mother, 30-year-old Josh has in the last few months begun to communicate his desires and preferences. One finger for yes, two fingers for no.
That he can express himself at all delights those looking for hints of his potential. He could become more than a soundless focal point in the ongoing legal fight between his wife and family over the power to make his medical and financial decisions.
Most days, his signs serve a simpler purpose. Like telling Christine Cooley, his mother, what he wants for dessert.
"Rice pudding or yogurt?" she asked during a recent lunchtime inside Josh's room at the James A. Haley VA Medical Center.
She set them on the table in front of his wheelchair. Josh looked at them for a few moments. Finally, he tapped on the rice pudding.
"Good choice," Christine said.
Josh stubbornly ignored his friends and family who urged him after 9/11 to stick with law enforcement rather than follow his Vietnam veteran father Ed Cooley's footsteps.
The hulking man with legs like logs and a Mr. Clean bald head graduated with honors from boot camp. Younger guys in his unit looked up to him, even if they outranked him.
"I thought for sure he was going to pick up rank before me," said Adam Boggs, a lance corporal in Josh's platoon. "People listened to him."
Then an enemy car bomb cut short Josh's service. Fitting for an overachiever, he quickly defied his grim prognosis. He beat fevers that spiked from shrapnel in his head, breathed without a tracheotomy, survived multiple surgeries that required anesthesia.
In July, he almost lost the fight. After a seven-hour procedure at Bethesda Naval Hospital to fill out the sunken right side of his head, doctors realized that the young skin had not stretched far enough over a plastic plate. A complicated 14-hour surgery to correct the problem had to be followed by an emergency operation for a hematoma, leaving Josh as swollen as he had been in the days after the explosion.
But he bounced back, and his progress quickened.
By fall, he was feeding himself cottage cheese and fruit at lunch and licking the wayward drippings off his lower lip. He held a rooster on a trip to an Odessa horse farm with other wounded veterans. He beat his mom at arm wrestling and applied his own deodorant.
His shoulders shook with laughter when his former SWAT buddies recalled their old adventures.
Behind the drama of his recovery, another quiet drama played out.
Josh's parents and brother went to court to wrest his guardianship from his wife and fellow Pasco Sheriff's deputy, Christina Cooley. They argued Christina had not dedicated herself enough to his recovery, while his mother had not missed a day by his side.
Josh's wife is fighting to retain decisionmaking rights for her husband, whom she married two months before he went to war. A trial is set for March.
In October, Josh's court-appointed attorney visited his hospital room. Richard Minardi wanted to see for himself whether Josh could convey his wishes and, if so, what they were.
"If you want Christina to be your guardian, hold up one finger," the attorney asked.
Recalling the encounter later, Minardi said Josh didn't hold up any fingers.
One night in November, the people who love Josh put aside their dispute to escort him to the Marine ball.
The family walked into the Tampa Convention Center together, Christina in a sparkling champagne gown, Christine in heels for the first time since Josh's injury, Ed in his first-ever suit.
Josh fingered the medals on his breast pocket, the ones his father had straightened just so.
People stared. "Got hit by a bomb," a Marine whispered to his date as Josh rolled by.
Word of Josh's arrival quickly spread to his platoon mates. They crowded him in excitement. Then the reality of his condition and the memory of the bomb's billowing smoke hit, and several went outside to compose themselves.
"I was twisted up pretty bad. It touches you to see your brother like that," 21-year-old Boggs said later, getting choked again.
The 231st Marine birthday celebration - the largest reunion of the Tampa-based 4th Assault Amphibian Battalion in three years, with Marines home from deployments in Iraq, Afghanistan and Africa - opened with the presentation of colors and a brass-band rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner.
A hush fell over the ballroom as Maj. John Wright spoke the names of each of the battalion's dead and wounded. He saved one name in particular for last.
"And with great pleasure - as a goal we set last year has been fulfilled - one of our own, Josh Cooley."
Two hundred Marines sprang to their feet. They clapped and whistled and whooped their guttural cry.
"Ooh-rah! Ooh-rah!"
Josh stared straight ahead, his mouth curved in a half-smile. A mother of a Marine killed in action, sitting one table over from the Cooleys, began to cry.
Josh's first night out ended on the dance floor. As Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough pumped through the speakers, he beamed in his wheelchair as his mom swayed on one arm and his wife swung the other. Bright flashing lights and beautiful, complicated life swirled around him.
On Monday, Josh and his parents flew to Southern California.
Feeling he had plateaued in his recovery, the Cooleys and Josh's neurosurgeon in Bethesda decided a rehabilitation program called Casa Colina would be the next best step.
The center will offer Josh intensive therapies six days a week, all paid for by his military insurance. One day in, a physical therapist already talked about Josh walking on his own and a speech therapist got him to mold his lips in the shapes of sounds.
No one knows how far Josh will go or how long he will stay at Casa Colina. Every brain is different. Each milestone offers a reason to believe he might achieve self-sufficiency.
As Ed soaked up the California sun and gazed out at snow-capped mountains last week, resolve filled his voice.
"There's a lot of hope out here."


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Philadelphia, PA – Inbee Park collected her third win of the season on Sunday and pushed her lead atop the women's world rankings to nearly a full point.
Park led No. 2 Stacy Lewis by 0.34 average points last week, but pushed her lead to 0.99 average points this week.
Park and Lewis were again followed by Na Yeon Choi, Yani Tseng, Suzann Pettersen, So Yeon Ryu, Jiyai Shin, Shanshan Feng, Ai Miyazato, Karrie Webb and Paula Creamer.
Cristie Kerr inched up one to No. 12, while I.K. Kim improved two spots to 13th. Catriona Matthew slid a pair to 14th and Mika Miyazato dipped one to 15.
Azahara Munoz remained 16th and was trailed again by Amy Yang and Angela Stanford. Lizette Salas jumped three to 19th and Mi-Jeong Jeon was down one spot to round out the top 20.
Sun Ju Ahn was 20th last week, but tumbled two to 22nd this week. Carlota Ciganda was runner-up to Park in Texas last week, and she climbed 20 spots to No. 28 this week.


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First round, 29 September 1 October 2017:
Group A in Belgrade, Serbia: Irbis-Skate Sofia (BUL), Crvena Zvezda Belgrade (SRB), Zeytinburnu Istanbul (TUR), Esja Reykjavik (ISL).
Second round, 20-22 October 2017:
Group B in Riga, Latvia: GKS Tychy (POL), HC Donbass (UKR), Kurbads Riga (LAT), Narva PSK (EST).
Group C in Brasov, Romania: DVTK Jegesmedvek Miskolc (HUN), Corona Brasov (ROU), Txuri Urdin San Sebastian (ESP), Winner Group A.
Third round, 17-19 November 2017:
Group D in Rungsted, Denmark: Sheffield Steelers (GBR), Rungsted Ishockey (DEN), Yunost Minsk (BLR), Winner Group B.
Group E in Renon/Ritten, Italy: Grenoble Bruleurs de Loups (FRA), Nomad Astana (KAZ), Ritten Sport (ITA), Winner Group C.
Final, 12-14 January 2018:
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Liberty News
Vernon Brewer chosen as baccalaureate speaker
|Vernon Brewer, founder of World Help, speaks in Liberty University convocation on Aug. 30, 2010.
Liberty University's first graduate, World Help founder Vernon Brewer, will be the main speaker at baccalaureate service, to be held on May 13 at Thomas Road Baptist Church.
Brewer, a regular speaker in Liberty's convocation, earned his Bachelor of Science from Liberty in 1973. He served as Liberty's Dean of Students and the Vice President of Student Development before founding World Help in 1991.
World Help is a nonprofit, nondenominational Christian organization that meets the spiritual and physical needs of millions of people around the world through child advocacy, humanitarian aid, Bible distribution and church planting. It has distributed more than $356 million in humanitarian aid in 60 countries and has planted more than 74,000 churches, resulting in more than 7 million new believers. Through 43,000 sponsorships, children have received clothing, food and medical attention, as well as a Christian education. World Help's headquarters are in Forest, Va.
As World Help President, Brewer has directed international evangelistic campaigns and rallies in 67 countries and has led leadership training conferences in Uganda, China, India, Nepal, Myanmar, Romania, and Russia. He has taken more than 4,000 people to the mission field, has led more than 500 local church evangelistic rallies, and has lectured on 30 college and university campuses. He has also spoken to more than 1 million teenagers in public high school assembly programs and is a frequent speaker at camps, local church revival crusades and mission conferences.
|Vernon Brewer receives his honorary doctorate degree from Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. on May 14, during Liberty University's baccalaureate service.
Brewer is also a cancer survivor. After being diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, he underwent 18 surgeries and 18 months of chemotherapy. His battle with cancer prompted a large prayer meeting at Liberty, and he attributes his miraculous recovery largely to the prayers from his alma mater.
Brewer received his Doctor of Divinity from North Florida Baptist Theological Seminary in 1991. Liberty bestowed an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree to him at the 2010 baccalaureate service.
Brewer lives with his wife, Patty, and his son, Josh (who attends Liberty), in Forest. He has three married daughters and six grandsons.


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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
It gets better(?)
If so, that's okay, we're used to it. Anything will help. Please. Lie away.
-- Jaded Dissertator
[N.B.: The following bracketed note contains strong language. {N.B.: The insensitivity of this post is defused by this bracketed note disclaiming any real comparisons between the plight of homosexual teens and the plight of non-tenured faculty, which also takes half the fun out of the expected comments from people accusing me of being an asshole who doesn't deserve a job anywhere and that any place that hires me better be prepared to deal with the asshole to end all assholes because they just hired a complete asshole who is made up of a bunch of smaller assholes and within those assholes are even tinier assholes composed of certain shapes, textures, and sizes the combination of which can be deemed powers of the medium-sized assholes to make me seem assholeish to those who interact with me, but without said interaction, the powers would lie dormant in the featureless asshole substratum, i.e., they would be assholes we know not what, which is obviously an absurdity. Thus, and Q.E.D., I am not an asshole, you are for believing in such a manifest repugnancy as an asshole without any assholeish qualities that exists outside of our perceiving its assholeishness. /Berkeleyed}]
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I'll play! It Got Better for me when I quit my program and got a job at a consulting firm instead. (I was ABD.) I now get paid like a grown-up, don't have to grade assignments and exams for first year gen ed classes, have weekends off, and don't dread the Christmas season anymore.
- October 19, 2010 at 8:32 PM
Ummm but I'm pretty sure that I can conceive of an asshole that is not conceived by any mind (i.e. the assholish content of my thought might be distinct from the mental activity of thinking). So might it be possible that you're an asshole even without interaction and thus you actually are an asshole?
- October 20, 2010 at 12:07 AM
Ya know, I thought you were going for an Asshole Leviathan there, but then you zigged and went all idealistic on me.
Well played, asshole.
- October 20, 2010 at 6:34 AM
Wouldn't it be better to focus on your academic work / teaching instead of coming up with such pointless proposals?
- October 20, 2010 at 7:43 AM
Last year, I lucked into a great tenure-track community college job that I absolutely love (I'm still in my first semester). It's a weird position that requires me to teach mostly outside of philosophy, but I'm being supported in adding new philosophy classes to the curriculum, so, in a few years, I'll be all-philosophy, all-the-time.
I'm in a beautiful small town in the Northeast, not terribly far from a decent-sized city. I earn a livable wage and was able to buy my first house. My colleagues are wonderful. I'm teaching extremely polite and hard-working students (for the most part). I'm paid a little extra to head my department (I'm the only person in my department).
I came out of an unranked department. I applied to only a handful of places (15, I think). I'm ABD (and will be for a while), but still making progress toward tenure.
I'm perfectly happy here. Hopefully, it will get better for all of you. Good luck!
- October 20, 2010 at 9:18 AM
- Jaded Dissertator said...
Because it took me more than 15 minutes to write that blog post, Anon. 7:43 I am now unable to do anything research or teaching related. O NOES! I'm really fucked now.
Maybe YOU should focus on coming up with better comments rather than your research/teaching. It could obvi use some help.
(Time to write read comments and write reply: approx. 3 - 5 minutes.)
- October 20, 2010 at 9:28 AM
you don't have to be the asshole to end all assholes, or to have powers that lie dormant in the featureless asshole substratum, nor do you have to be denounced as an asshole undeserving of a job of any kind, to understand that declaiming any comparison between dead teens and your job prospects, *despite the comparison you yourself just made,* is in fact an asshole move. your irony will not protect you.
i say this out of love, jd. the kind of love only an asshole could understand, or probably give, for that matter. that is to say even the gardner can sense and perceive that yonder cherry tree is an asshole.
- October 20, 2010 at 9:40 AM
I'd like to hear more about the mereology of assholes. I know there is a literature on holes generally... perhaps there are implications here!
- October 20, 2010 at 10:31 AM
it would be a lie. sorry
- October 20, 2010 at 10:57 AM
Yes. We can call it the "It gets better, but all of a sudden you will spend a lot of time worrying about getting on various committees in order to get promoted, about getting your colleagues to come visit your classes and write letters about them so you can include them in your annual review, about the fact that you are the only thing preventing your many, many advisees from screwing up their course requirements and having to come back for a fifth year, about going to the right meetings so you can meet the right upper-level administrators and faculty who will be reviewing your tenure and promotion packet, about how you will get through your teaching load which is 3-4 times as heavy as it was in graduate school, about finding time every day (ha!) to do research so you can distinguish yourself from the rest of the career teachers at your university, about your kids (didn't have them in grad school, did you?), about that annual review (did I mention that already?), and then snap out of all this worrying because you've got 8 completely different things to do before you go home tonight" project.
- October 20, 2010 at 1:44 PM
How about a post on what makes for a good/useful APA question? I've been thinking about the comments about asking the same questions of everyone, and while I'll accept that if HR dictatates, then you gotta do it. But I'm still not persuaded that this makes for any kind of equity. Ethicists, what say you?
In any case, for people who can ask what they want to, maybe we should discuss what questions solicit the most useful information. I think I'd learn something. And what questions never end up going anywhere.
- October 20, 2010 at 1:55 PM
Xenophon, speaking as an ethicist, I'm not sure that equity is necessarily the goal of standardizing the questions.
Possible benefits:
1) keeps members of the SC from "picking on" the candidates who are not their favorites by asking oddball/impossible questions
2) keeps the SC members from favoring certain candidates by asking softball questions
3) keeps weirdos on the committee from asking inappropriate questions
4) keeps anyone on the SC from asking inappropriate/illegal questions
The questions, in my experience, tend to be pretty general. Tell us about your research plans, tell us what classes you like to teach, etc. Of course, they may ask ancillary questions that spring from the conversation, and in my experience, that happens. As for equity, it is equitable in the same way that exams are equitable -- you ask everyone in the class to answer the same questions, but in the case of essay questions, the answers will not be identical, which still leaves room for embellishment, personality, originality, etc. Even if the questions are constrained, the answers are not.
- October 20, 2010 at 3:18 PM
@ Anon 1:44pm.
I'm fucking sick of hearing tenure-track faculty complain about their job situations. No, your situation is *not* as bad as mine. *You* chose to have children; I chose to forgo marriage and having children in pursuit of a vocation I love and to which I'm dedicated. If you can't do your job, or simply don't like it, then get the fuck out of the way.
- October 20, 2010 at 5:08 PM
Dear 5:08--
I think you missed my attempt at humor! Also, the part about kids was supposed to be the author of the post (me) thinking aloud about how there was less (for me) to worry about in grad school since there weren't any kids to take care of (for me). None of it had anything to do with you, or your decisions regarding child-bearing; I don't know who you are, and I wasn't thinking of you specifically when I wrote the post.
P.S. For what it's worth, I'm awesome at my job, I love it, and I wish the same to everyone else.
P.P.S. If you want to hear some real complaining, go to the College Misery blog. I'm pretty much an amateur.
- October 20, 2010 at 6:06 PM
Yeah, I do love my job. Dealing with administrators is annoying, but what job doesn't require you to deal with a bureaucrat now and then? Pre-tenure there's pressure to publish, but let's be honest: getting tenure is much easier than getting that job in the first place.
It's good.
(I should admit that I also loved grad school, but I was glad to be done with it when I was done with it.)
- October 20, 2010 at 6:30 PM
Clever post. Being devotedly philosophical is not unlike being gay in the central respect: you gotta be what you are. But unlike being gay (bisexuality aside), there are degrees of devotion to philosophy. If you're like me (and say, 9:18) and simply want to teach and write as you may--then you are devoted. Options open up for you--lesser SLACS, CCs, some high schools--and you can thrive. Many people on this blog would hate what I do--teach a 4/4, publish as I can, etc. for less than 70k a year late in my career. But I still love what I do, and what I can contribute to the profession, even though it ain't appreciated much by the so-called higher echelons of the profession. But that is their loss as I see it--what they can't see that my parents never even got to high school, and, by comparison, my life is one of gratitude and joy for my opportunity, even as I now face furloughs, reduced benefits, and the general neglect of taxpayers who fail to see what I give to the state as valuable, as well as the louder voices of my own discipline, which (as many comments here imply) count me as pretty much a nobody outlier in comparison to the august R1s. But I challenge anyone who doesn't see that my lot is a great one as a philosopher--dreams are as relative as other tastes--one philosopher's cold nightmare of employment is another's warming comfort.
I got to do in life what I truly wanted to do.
If you love philosophy, it can get better--but you need a lot of luck in any case, and to the degree that you want a prestigious and lucrative position--well--good luck indeed. If you can "settle"--maybe teaching more than writing, but engaged in a life of the mind that actually pays you for that commitment, then you might also settle in to something truly satisfying and worthwhile.
- October 20, 2010 at 7:16 PM
Although I am tenured at a university, I think CC tenure-track jobs are more than a sorry last resort for PhDs in this kind of job market. A good friend of mine with a PhD from a prestigious Humanities dept took such a CC job a year after I went on tenure track. She made more money in the first year than I did in my first three or four years. She got tenured in 3 years (took me 6). By the time I was preparing my tenure package in a cheap tiny apartment, she already lived in her nice house (in an expensive state).
Sure, she has to teach 5 courses a semester, with with 2-3 online courses, she still spends a lot of time at home rather than on campus. And she does not have to supervise dissertations and MA theses, has no publication pressures for promotion (although she does publish), and does not enjoy the "prestige" of a big university job (whatever the latter means). But she has summers off, plus a month + in winter, plus fantastic benefits (better than mine), and she avoided wasting years of her life on minimum wage adjunct and visiting jobs.
- October 20, 2010 at 7:54 PM
yeah, it gets better. being a graduate students had its moments and in many respects -- e.g. the friends I made -- was lovely. Being on the job market sucked shit. The first three years of being tenure-track were tiring, but more than compensated just by the sense that I had a real job, with a real salary, and was accorded real respect for doing something I genuinely enjoyed.
Going up for tenure was a fucking nightmare of anxiety and depression; but even then, it was so much better than the uncertainty of the job market. It really does get better. I love my job.
Truly, the best of luck to you all.
- October 20, 2010 at 10:53 PM
I suppose that the long bracketed crap was supposed to make your disgusting comparison somehow ok?
Fuck that noise.
You are worse than Hitler.
- October 21, 2010 at 2:22 AM
You are worse than Hitler.
So you say, but what is really called for is a detailed accounting of the relative degree-of-assholishness of Hitler and JD. Step it up, Anonymous.
- October 21, 2010 at 5:38 AM
"A good friend of mine with a PhD from a prestigious Humanities dept took such a CC job a year after I went on tenure track. She made more money in the first year than I did in my first three or four years. She got tenured in 3 years (took me 6). By the time I was preparing my tenure package in a cheap tiny apartment, she already lived in her nice house (in an expensive state).
Sure, she has to teach 5 courses a semester, with with 2-3 online courses, she still spends a lot of time at home rather than on campus. And she does not have to supervise dissertations and MA theses, has no publication pressures for promotion (although she does publish), and does not enjoy the "prestige" of a big university job (whatever the latter means). But she has summers off, plus a month + in winter, plus fantastic benefits (better than mine), and she avoided wasting years of her life on minimum wage adjunct and visiting jobs."
Ding. Ding. Ding. Winner.
The market is so glutted I would LOVE to take a cc tenure job for the above reasons. Its not clearing up anytime soon, so it sure beats the minimum wage adjunct and visiting positions where you spend your life savings moving from city to city.
I say: community college tenure-track is quite alright. Afterall, I am 33, have a wife and family, and its been three years on the market.
If they offer, I am taking it.
- October 21, 2010 at 6:31 AM
disgusting comparisons abound!
- October 21, 2010 at 6:45 AM
Not only are you worse than Hitler -- which, it's worth noting, is technically in keeping with one of the sanity-restoration signs advocated by Jon Stewart, I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler, since one must not be Hitler to be worse than Hitler -- but I'll bet a pocketful of pfennigs that your cat looks like Hitler. And if it does, would it be wrong to pour gasoline on it and ignite it, as the young hoodlums do in Harman's example -- as one pours gasoline over and ignites job dossiers lacking detailed, individuated cover letters?
- October 21, 2010 at 12:51 PM
> No, your situation is *not* as bad as mine.
> *You* chose to have children; I chose to
> forgo marriage and having children in
> pursuit of a vocation I love and to which
> I'm dedicated. If you can't do your job,
> or simply don't like it, then get the fuck
> out of the way.
Why bother having kids when you can cry like a baby all by yourself, eh?
- October 21, 2010 at 5:40 PM
- BunnyHugger said...
For some reason community colleges (almost) never want to interview me. I did have a campus interview with a CC once (didn't get the job, of course) but only once in several years of going on the market, and I apply to lots of them (which typically involves spending a frustrating amount of time filling out their online applications). I have adjunct teaching experience at two different CCs and a teaching-oriented dossier, so I wonder what it takes to get those interviews.
- October 21, 2010 at 6:18 PM
Anon @ 5:40, that's a good one, you little prick. I like how you selectively accuse the job market candidate of crying like a baby but say nothing about the apparent crying of the tenure-track faculty member.
(It's now clear that Anon 1:44 was making a joke; but, in the initial ambiguous context, the job market candidate's retort was justified).
- October 22, 2010 at 12:21 AM
Sorry, folks. It doesn't get better.
I miss the carefree life of a graduate student, all the free food, and the readily accessible undergraduate women. I even look back with great fondness to my year on the market. All the possibilities, the hopes, the bubbly excitement.
Now that I'm tenure-track at a SLAC the food is no longer free and the students are strictly verboten.
To make it worse I have to spend all my daylight hours teaching, my nights trying to write meaningless articles, and mornings churning out letters for students who will immediately land jobs that pay more than mine. Meanwhile I wonder if I'll even have a job in another couple of years, let alone a salary greater than the one I started with.
Get out now, while you still have time.
- October 22, 2010 at 9:02 AM
I have to disagree with SLACkerProf. Of course, so far as I know, we're at two different institutions, and maybe I'd be singing a different tune elsewhere. All I can say is this: even though I wish I got paid more (I'm supporting a family all by myself on a slightly-less-than-the-median-household-income salary), and even though I'm at a middling institution in a part of the country I don't especially like, I freakin' love my job. Teaching chews up oodles of time, but, um, I like doing it, and I became a professor largely because I like doing it. I spend ten hours or so per week talking with students about subjects I find fascinating and important. I work from home a lot, so I see my kids more than many professionals do, I wear pretty much whatever I want to work, and I have the most flexible schedule of anyone I know. At least once each week it occurs to me that I sacrificed a LOT to get through grad school, and that, in hindsight, it was totally worth it.
I do miss all the free beer I got in grad school, though.
- October 22, 2010 at 9:40 AM
SLACker Prof.'s comment made me want to go read the "Women in Philosophy" blog again. This post made my day.
- October 22, 2010 at 11:40 AM
I want to tell you all how much better it can get, but when I try to figure out how to say it, it sounds like gloating. My situation (tenure-track) is better than I hoped, immensely satisfying. I was extraordinarily lucky. After serving recently on my first search committee, and seeing how many awesome candidates there are (on paper, anyway), I can't stop thanking my lucky stars.
- October 22, 2010 at 2:46 PM
Yo, SLAC;
I have to admit that the fact that I'm not allowed to sleep with the undergrads isn't high on my list of complaints about the life. And:
"To make it worse I have to spend all ... my nights trying to write meaningless articles"
De dicto or de re?
Verification word: "hedchec"
Which sounds like a good idea.
- October 22, 2010 at 4:29 PM
I got a TT job last year at a SLAC. Does it get better? Yes. Absolutely. I don't lie awake at night wondering whether I'll work next year. I get a paycheck that allows me to pick out the food that I want and eat out occasionally without feeling guilty. If my car breaks down, I'll be able to either fix it or get a new car. Financial security means a lot, and getting a TT job means you have some of that.
But it's not all puppy dogs and roses. When I was a grad student, I taught, attended reading groups, worked on my dissertation, and was on the market. And despite doing all of that, I wasn't as busy as I am right now. I routinely put in at least 70 hours a week on teaching alone. On top of that, I have meetings, I am expected to participate in training and workshops, and I am expected to participate in the college as a whole and so must attend student productions, etc. My life right now is my job. There really isn't time for anything else. And this is without doing committee work OR doing my own research at the moment. Research gets added in next semester (this semester is all about survival), committee work gets added next year.
So there's pressure (teaching and, soon, research), there's a hell of a lot of work, and there are politics that you enter into simply in virtue of being a member of a particular department or division or having a certain person as a mentor or what have you. I can only imagine that these sorts of pressures and worries and timesinks will only increase, at least until tenure.
But still, it's a hell of a lot better than grad school. I love teaching and I get to do a lot of it. My students are more interested and engaged than they were at my R1 gigantic state university. I've never had more fun teaching than I do right now. My colleagues are invested in me, and my happiness and success are important to them. I am encouraged to do research and have a budget that allows for it. I have financial and job security. I am slowly making new friends in a town that I am really starting to love. And maybe I'm especially lucky in my circumstances, but for me it really is better, even if it isn't perfect.
- October 22, 2010 at 4:42 PM
So why not retire and make room for someone who might actually enjoy doing what you do?
- October 23, 2010 at 11:57 AM
It can get better. It did for me. I spent 8 years on the market without a single TT offer. In my 9th, I got an offer at a decent research school in a fairly sizable city with a 2-2 load, excellent travel funds, $80,000 salary, and wonderful colleagues. I'm now tenured. Approximately 500 applications. One terrific offer. It can happen.
- October 23, 2010 at 12:13 PM
"..and the readily accessible undergraduate women..."
- October 23, 2010 at 3:22 PM
Okay, I can't let this call for "It Gets Better: Academic Philosophy Edition" to draw to a close on such a negative note. Unlike Anon 9:02, I don't miss anything about the graduate school lifestyle or about being on the job market. The call I received when I got my TT job was among the greatest moments of my life. Things were seriously competitive years ago--not nearly to the extent they are presently--but, damn, there's nothing like this call, and there's nothing like knowing you have the opportunity of a lifetime. That's what it was to me, and it remains that to me now, everyday. Making it through tenure had its very difficult moments, moments of worry, self-doubt, yet there was, with 20-20 hindsight, less to worry about in reality. I was doing my work, building my department, and teaching my heart out. My colleagues appreciated my work and my efforts. I grew into my institution, recognizing the sorts of things that needed to get done, and seized every opportunity to make such things happen. If it all ended tomorrow, for whatever reason, I'd have no regrets. It didn't simply "get better" for me. I hadn't dreamt that it would be this good.
If I had my way, I'd hire a whole bunch of you right now, because the truth is that we need you. We need people TT, committed to the long run, and ready to start their professional lives with security and support. There are classes to be taught, programs to start, and a 1,001 things we haven't even thought of yet. I do not have the power to change how things are in the world at large, yet I assure you that my department is busting its collective ass so that we can make our case for new hires. I have no idea when this day will arrive, but we are ready and waiting, too.
- October 23, 2010 at 4:35 PM
I'm sure it "gets better" for most who reach tenure. But certainly not for all. There seems to be something like "post-tenure depression", which affects some rather badly. Below are two links to discussions on the forum of Chronicle of Higher Ed about this phenomenon.
In some cases this phenomenon arises when people get tenure-stuck at a location they simply hate (bad climate, small rural town, etc) but can't leave without jeopardizing the tenure they worked for so hard over many years.
In others it is the sudden "pressure drop" from many years of very intense, stressful and uncertain life to a life that is most likely "fixed" for the rest of their existence. Unless one has the single-minded writing resolve of a Kant, this sudden pressure change may present the rest of one's life as filled with little more but aging toward death. Or so it seems from some comments I've seen...
- October 23, 2010 at 7:59 PM
SLACker, it gets worse because you can't sleep with the undergrads anymore? Dang.
- October 24, 2010 at 7:08 AM
Anon 12:13, this is one heck of a Cinderella story.
- October 25, 2010 at 12:48 AM
- BunnyHugger said...
Anon 12:13, thank you, you've given me a moment of hope. I just sent out the first application of the year in what is my going to be my fifth full-blown year on the market. (I think I sent out some applications selectively one other year, bringing the total job market years to six, but I won't count that.)
By the way, anyone planning to get a job at Harrisburg Community College "teach[ing] assigned sociology courses"? When I send them my application I'll make sure my cover letter is still addressed to someone at another school.
- October 25, 2010 at 2:07 AM
If you are lucky enough to find a job that has tenure or some degree of job security and you enjoy teaching, it gets much better.
I am very happy that I don't have to worry about moving into a cardboard box next year, and I get paid for talking about what I love. what can be better than that? Of course I have to grade papers, and that sucks.. but in the overall scheme of things, its a good life.
- October 25, 2010 at 7:48 AM
It gets better, RIGHT NOW, philosophers. Here's how.
Stop thinking there is only one thing in the world that counts as meaningful work.
Realize that you, regardless of what you do for a salary, can be a philosopher. After all, many famous philosophers had somewhat demanding day jobs. (Courtier, doctor, librarian, secretary, soldier... etc), and that college professor with a 2/2 teaching load is not the only (or possibly even the best way) to be a philosopher.
Appreciate that you are part of a tiny fraction of the world's population that gets to spend time studying what you love for a living, even if its only for a few years in grad school and under the tutelage of mostly ornery, old, racist, and sexist jerks.
- October 25, 2010 at 12:34 PM
"I routinely put in at least 70 hours a week on teaching alone."
- October 25, 2010 at 12:58 PM
12:34, dude, I could so be a courtier. When does JFC come out?
- October 25, 2010 at 1:32 PM
I second that. 70 hrs teaching/week?? I'm kick ass at my teaching and I spend less than half that on my teaching with a 4-4 load. Someone needs to learn a little time management and efficiency...
- October 25, 2010 at 1:51 PM
Maybe he/she meant to say 7 hours?
- October 25, 2010 at 2:16 PM
It is nice to be a perrenial VAP and seduce a new sex partner in a new city far away from the old one every year. No danger of running into the ex.
- October 25, 2010 at 5:08 PM
I miss sleeping on a broken futon that I dragged out of a dumpster on Brighton Ave. after the undergrads move out day. I also miss the drunken blackout sex with fools, the ramen noodles and thinking the Middle East is the world's coolest venue. I miss paying rent and not having enough money for dental work. Could it have gotten any worse? I guess so, but fuck did it get better.
- October 25, 2010 at 8:09 PM
I remember last year at his retirement party, I asked the Dean what he will miss most on campus. His answer? "Hot female undergraduate ass."
- October 25, 2010 at 11:09 PM
Speaking of things I won't have to do after I land my dream job, how is everyone feeling about the online application process this year?
I'm finding that more than 75% of my applications are electronic this year. This saves me a LOT on postage costs, since I'm currently working outside the US. OTOH, it's rather a pain to have to keep filling out what is more or less the same online form for every job. It takes about 15-30 minutes to do it, depending on how speedy they are about uploading documents. I suppose the financial savings are worth it, although if I'm driving to the post office once to drop off five or six applications, the online process isn't saving me any time. The depts who want documents emailed ought to talk to their IT people about file size limits too -- a teaching portfolio containing evaluations, syllabi and a teaching statement is going to be a big document.
One school I applied to didn't request letters of recommendation until the dossier passed the first level of scrutiny. I like that too -- I don't need to waste money sending letters for jobs I won't be considered for. Although given the discussion on this board about the relative importance of a good letter, that may be good or bad as a policy. I guess it indicates that letters are not the most important part of the dossier, but rather a supporting part.
So, not that anyone asked, I guess I'm feeling overall favorably toward the online application process because of the massive financial savings, and because the deadlines are easier to deal with. It would be perfect if we could just fill out the form once for everyone, maybe like having an uploadable form on Interfolio or something.
- October 26, 2010 at 12:56 PM
Anon 1:32: No one ever talks about the downside of democracy. No more courtiers - one of them. I wonder if my Political Phil class has any thoughts about this.
- October 26, 2010 at 6:48 PM
I'm at an R1. Let me tell you that it gets better. So much better. Sure you have to put up with daft referees reading your papers, and lazy grad students, teaching, and thinking about philosophy in all the other moments, but it's all great. Really--it's worth it.
The only thing I miss is getting to do philosophy without having to teach or have any responsibilities. But I also had no money. So I had more time, but nothing to do with it. WIth money comes a little work, and a whole lot of freedom etc.
The grass is SO much greener. I chose the life, the job, the career, the family, the fucking big television, the washing machines, the cars, the mp3 players, and the electrical tin openers. And I chose good health insurance, dental insurance, fixed-interest mortgage payments on my starter home, my friends, my leisure wear and matching luggage. Sure there are folks outside philosophy who make more money than me, but I have all the above--and that's quite a lot.
Imagine going to the APA just for the philosophy--and nice dinners out--without worrying about the cost. Yeah, life is pretty good once you cross that line.
- October 27, 2010 at 6:32 AM


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Author: NIH
Date: 3/2/2008 6:09 pm EDT
I finished placing the Avaire tiles in my basement bathroom yesterday. I put them over an existing vinyl-on-concrete floor. The installation was a lot easier than I thought!
This morning I grouted using the flexible grout. I followed all of the instructions and the grouting was pretty easy too!
I did find one problem. After about 30 minutes of drying I noticed small "holes" or "pockets" starting to form in the grout. They are about about 1/8" deep. I would describe them as "sinkholes" or "pock marks", like the grout started contracting or sinking in spots as it dried. They didn't form everywhere, but there are about 30 holes scattered throughout the 35 sq. ft. room. There are enough of them, and they are noticeable enough, that they definitely need to be fixed.
So I have 2 questions:
1. Any ideas on why these holes appeared, or what I might have done to cause the holes to appear?
2. Can I "re-grout" over the affected areas to fill-in the holes? If so, how long should I wait before re-grouting? I wouldn't need to re-grout the whole floor, I would just fill in the holes.
Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.
P.S. Other than the holes the floor looks great!
Author: NIH
Date: 3/2/2008 6:10 pm EDT
A few more things:
After I started noticing the "holes" forming, I tried going back and filling them in again. After about 20 or 30 minutes, the holes started forming again. I went back 3 or 4 times, but the holes kept coming back in different areas.
I did not add water to the grout. I mixed it thoroughly before using it. The room was about 65 degrees.
Thanks again for any advice.
Author: Jonathan
Date: 3/2/2008 6:39 pm EDT
Youve already answered a couple of questions: you stirred it thoroughly, and you didnt add anything to the grout. Both good answers.
Let me ask you a couple of other questions:
1) Where did you purchase the Avaire Flexible Grout?
2) Is there a batch number or similar anywhere on the grout pail? It would be on a sticker.
Weve heard of this on a few rare occasions. Usually it happened when the grout wasnt properly stirred the lower viscosity portions of the pail can sag in the grout joints, especially in the gaps between the interlocking tabs. The other way it can happen is if the joints are not thoroughly packed with grout; that is, make sure to force the grout all the way into the gaps between the interlocking tabs.
The good news is the Avaire Flexible Grout adheres very well to itself and it is not a problem to go back over the top with another layer in those areas that sank. The bad news is that is additional work certainly not what you or we had in mind when you started your floor.
Based on what you've described so far, I would recommend waiting 24-48 hours and let everything settle before adding the final layer of Avaire Flexible Grout.
Author: NIH
Date: 3/2/2008 7:09 pm EDT
Thanks for the really quick answer.
I purchased the Grout at the Menards in Red Wing, MN. The sticker says "705-4857 12KDMXCGV exp.12/11/2009".
I spent a relatively long time mixing the grout with a trowel to create a consistent mix, and I tried to pack it as tight as possible, especially after going over the same areas 3 or 4 times. But this is my first time grouting anything so an installation error is certainly possible.
In looking closer at the pattern of the holes, it does look like they only occur where there were gaps between the interlocking tabs.
It's good to hear that "re-grouting" over the saging areas should work. It's a small room, so it should not take more than an hour. I'll wait until Tuesday night to do it and we'll see what happens.
Thanks again for the quick response.
Author: Jonathan
Date: 3/2/2008 7:36 pm EDT
It sure sounds like you've done everything right.
If possible, I'd like to get your partial pail back for analysis. Please send me an email directly at firstname.lastname@example.com and we'll make arrangements to deliver a replacement pail, and pick-up your partially used pail.
Author: Margaret Taylor
Date: 3/18/2008 11:28 am EDT
I had the same problem. When I opened the pail, it was only half full and I had about two inches of liquid on the top that had to be mixed. I worked for almost 45 minutes before I could even begin.
Now, I'm not perfect, but I have completed four rooms of ceramic tile as well as shower walls, so I am used to grouting.
I had wholes too all over my floor. I kept going back with my fingers to smooth them out. However, now I realize that all my grouting has sunk and is no longer flush with the tiles. I know that this is going to cause a horrible problem with dirt in the grouting.
I read that I can go back over the floor and regrout on top, but what a job. I still have half of the floor to do, so any suggestions as to what I can do to prevent the problem in the rest of the room?
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