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KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The printer is in the secretary's office. She serves the entire college, which is spread over 3 buildings.

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KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

We have a room in our building with 2 computers, a microwave, & a couch that got thrown out of the president's house when we got a new president.

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KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Tags on scarves. They always end up front & center when I'm trying to make a cute outfit. Always. Also, the noise electricity makes.

KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Sure! I teach ug classes in lit, race, gender-- mostly American literature. I can talk about Indigenous thought, slave narratives, chicane lit, lit & the environment... afrofuturism... bring me in to boost a novel you're reading....

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KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Finished task 7.5 hrs after starting it. Home, read, cook, eat, get on zoom for meetings w #10-15. Talk to husband (#16), who shows me Old Glory Robot Insurance ad to soothe me, because Sam Watterson trying to keep a straight face is beautiful. Shower, sleep. Tuesday is my light day. #academicsky

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KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Yesterday: got to my office at 8:30 & began a task. Then talked on zoom to person 1. Returned to task. Person 2 came to talk. Returned to task. Person 3 had an appt to talk. Lunch, & talked with persons 4-7, especially p6. Returned to office & original task. Person 8 came to talk; 9 joined us. 1/2

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KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I grew up in Southern CA back before the EPA, & the smell of diesel exhaust makes me nostalgic. But it's true that everything was brown & we were warned not to play outside on smog alert days. I'm glad that's gone, but i fear it will return.

KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Maybe Lowe's (pronounced Lowe's in our house due to a kid) should stock ibuprofen next to the paint brushes for people who think, hey, the bathroom is the smallest room in the house! We can knock this out in a weekend! (Tomorrow is day 4).

When I first moved here, I was confused by the ubiquity of the giant red S. I couldn't understand why so many folx were into Stanford, and discussed my confusion with the Wrong Person, a very proud State grad.

Oh, in NC, this is how people greet each other.

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My mother, the queen of "you'd be so pretty if only...", offered to get my nose fixed as a HS grad gift. I told her it was the same as hers, & if she didn't like it, she could have the surgery. (Seriioously, before this, it had never occurred to me that my nose was in any way problematic).

They have been installing them like crazy here in NC, and I'm learning to love them.

KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Yeah, I'm not sure if that's better or worse. At my institution we've been told that we can have "faculty governance," but it's clear that admin isn't particularly interested in what faculty say or do (as long as no students complain).

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KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Oh, I've thought about this a lot. If i could only pick one: A few years ago, a student wrote a project for me where he reimagined Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo in space, with Comala as a derelict space station. It would be so good.

KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I'm not sure that faculty governance is really thriving anywhere-- either admin backs you, or they don't. If they don't, they "can't talk about personnel issues for legal reasons."

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KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

You can't pass an assignment if you don't actually do the assignment. Turning in a paper that has nothing to do with the assignment doesn't earn a passing grade.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

“ The daughter of a well known conservative operative , whose paper did not answer the topic at hand and had a carefully planned media campaign , had a trans instructor fired for grading a paper according to the agreed upon rubric”

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KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Don't schedule medical tests for 24 December. Skip work & deal with that nonsense on a different day. (This is the 2nd year in a row I've spent the day like this).

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KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

It's Oklahoma. Some probably agree. Also, it's academia; folks are generally afraid.

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KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I dreamed I was presenting a conference paper on "syllabi as reconciling documents" & if anyone can tell me what I might have meant by that, I'd be grateful. #academicsky

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KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Ha! As a racially-mixed person, all the whitefolx in my bloodline have only been in the US for about 3, maybe 4 generations, max. The ancestors that make them think I don't belong here? Time immemorial.

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KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The search committee doesn't even read incomplete apps. They have enough complete apps to wade through as it is.

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KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I have interviewed candidates from fancy schools who have taught 1 MA seminar on their dissertation topic-- & I was hiring for a 4/4 all ugrad including 1st yr composition. Our workload would have killed them, poor dears. Give me a land grant PhD w 2-3 years jc work anyday.

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KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Meanwhile, at my small, not particularly prestigious college, I am one of 3 women in a 9 person humanities division. The rest are white men. Get a grip, dude.

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KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Is Lumbee recognition still in it?

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KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Our pets always knew.

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KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I'm an English professor-- mostly American literature. "OH, I hate grammar. I'm so bad at English."

KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I taught comp at an AoG college, & between Aristotle & Toulmin, I made sure that my students wouldn't write like this. They also knew why they shouldn't. There are so many reasons why this is bad.

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If roadside strolls count, I guess I should include the opossum who walked me halfway home up Allen St in State College, PA one evening.

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California Condor Bald eagle Moose Grunions Snowy egret (my favorite bird)

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Yeah, it looks like she heard it was about bullying & gender identity & went off without actually reading the damn thing. Also, as I have had to explain to students over & over, you can't assume everyone makes the same assumptions you do. Doesn't anybody do Toulmin anymore?

I had a student once try to complain about me to the dean. He recorded the whole class as a gotcha. His recording proved my explanation. He dropped the class.

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In grad school, it felt so classy to listen to George Winston instead of Bing Crosby.

KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I'm in the US, so I'd pay for my healthcare.

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When I was 16, my mom added my name to the checks. It looked like my dad had 2 wives, but nobody refused a check.

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KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I am once again asking you to check the syllabus and spell your professor's name correctly on your paper.

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KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Reading this while waiting to get the train home froma conference.

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KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Ergo... either they aren't police, or this isn't a free society

KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

No whipped cream for the pie! Inhuman.

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KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

The Dodgers hate their east coast fans. I have to teach in 6 hours.

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KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

OMG #Dodgers it's after 11 00 EST. How am I supposed to sleep after that 9th inning!?!

KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I think Orel Hersheiser's favorite word is "elite."

KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

It's stochastic violence vs stochastic violence! And... go! (Seriously, I've been working on stochastic terrorism all morning).