We’re well into the Spring Semester here in South Australia. Or the second semester. Or ‘Study Period 5′ as it’s prosaically termed by university officials. It is the semester in which I earn my keep – coordinating the large lecture course I was hired to teach. But I’ve also taken on a number of other [...]
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A commode of cultural confusion
Because my role at the university is teaching only and we’re in between terms, I spend most of my time at job number two these days. I toddled over to the university today as I do once a week or so to make sure that I’m still getting paid and they haven’t given my office [...]
Are you locked up in a world that’s been planned out for you?
There’s no football this week, well no Georgia football this week. But I’ve gotten pretty comfortable with having a guest do my job for me on Friday – I am, like the Dude, a lazy man. In fact, in an effort to improve the quality of writing here at A Free Man, I’m thinking of [...]
Album of the Week: The Decemberists – “The Crane Wife”
There’s nothing wrong with prog rock. My first college experience was all about soaking up new information. Unfortunately, little of that soaking up occurred in the classroom. As a fraternity pledge at a small private college in the South Carolina foothills I was exposed to all kinds of new stimuli. Most of them have been [...]
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