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H8er!5 comments

Lucky Jane wrote 1 month ago: I’ve been feeling so crappy lately that, at this very moment, I’m missing my department … more →

Tags: New City, wallowing

Somebody!

Lucky Jane wrote 9 months ago: Why yes, c’est moi! As I was searching Amazon for a title that shares part of my name, the sea … more →

Tags: this academic life

Worst stalker ever2 comments

Lucky Jane wrote 10 months ago: Yep. That would me. But relax: by “worst” I mean “incompetent,” not “y … more →

Tags: this academic life

Achilles's Louboutins

Lucky Jane wrote 10 months ago: Yesterday wasn’t a teaching day, but I did have to go to campus for a morning meeting. As usua … more →

Tags: ms. chips, this academic life

What Sarah Palin taught me about teaching4 comments

Lucky Jane wrote 10 months ago: As former readers of the Huffington Post know too well, the recent candidate for Vice President won … more →

Tags: ms. chips

Bloodsuckers!4 comments

Lucky Jane wrote 1 year ago: Home again, home again, with, oh, thirty souvenirs from Interesting City: thirty mosquito bites, mor … more →

Tags: Happy Trails, wallowing, New City, genteel poverty, ms. collegiality

Meet the parents!2 comments

Lucky Jane wrote 1 year ago: But chances are, you’ll never do so if you know me in any professional capacity. Indeed, I can … more →

Tags: this academic life

Looks like I've won

Lucky Jane wrote 1 year ago: . . . a passport makeover! But this makeover has a more successful ending than all three episodes I … more →

Tags: Happy Trails

A tear jerker

Lucky Jane wrote 1 year ago: Whenever I do laundry, this threadbare sweatshirt is always in there somewhere, and it is usually th … more →

Big, BIG plans

Lucky Jane wrote 2 years ago: Not being on the market, and having just dodged the bullet of being on my department’s intervi … more →

Nervous eczema. I has it.3 comments

Lucky Jane wrote 2 years ago: So says my dermatologist of the rash that has been spreading across my shoulders. At the same time t … more →

Tags: this academic life, wallowing

Your tax dollars at work2 comments

Lucky Jane wrote 2 years ago: Because I tend not to wear makeup, I don’t keep mirrors handy. Lately, however, I’ve bee … more →

Well, this can't be good

Lucky Jane wrote 2 years ago: For the past month or so, I’ve been full of energy. But now, as the first day of classes nears … more →

Tags: this academic life

The Uniform

Lucky Jane wrote 2 years ago: As I type this post, I am wearing a pink sundress and last year’s model of these shoes. They d … more →

Tags: ms. chips

Kingmakers and Dark Horses2 comments

Lucky Jane wrote 2 years ago: Over the weekend I have been repenting at leisure a rash boon I made some months ago to my grad univ … more →

Tags: ms. chips, this academic life

On being secretly fat

Lucky Jane wrote 2 years ago: The last time I weighed myself, which was yesterday morning, I weighed 98 lbs. Since I’m only … more →

Tags: this academic life

93

Lucky Jane wrote 2 years ago: According to WorldCat, that’s the number of libraries with my book in their catalogs. Is it so … more →


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