Re: turf problems

[Latisha LaRue <kfischer@keller.clarke.edu>]

Gee, Deany,
	What a piece of cake your job is!  Imagine mine -- I have to sit 
around and watch corn grow all day long out-cheer in Ioway!
				Katie Fischer


> On Thu, 1 Feb 1996 Prof. Carol writes:
> 
> >> >To Whom It May Concern:
> >> >	All I can say is, you must have much more time in your job to 
> >> >communicate on this email system than I do!  Is this a little 
> >"in" group 
> >> >that is spending much time corresponding with each other rather 
> >than 
> >> >proofing and editing your own messages?  What type of job do you 
> >have?
> >> >I would like one just like it. I teach two five-hour classes a 
> >day and 
> >> >tutor 17 hours a week in the Writing Lab.  I find your ideas 
> >stimulating 
> >> >but theoretical.  Are you research assistants?  Thanks!  Carol. 
> 
> A five hour class you say? Must be some sort of developmental 
> program? So you teach 10 hours a week? I teach 12 (Nyah, nyah, 
> nyah), plus 9 office hours and 3 hours a week as a _volunteer_ in 
> the writing center. And I'm writing a dissertation. And serving on 
> committees. And writing a newsletter for SCWCA. And all other kinds 
> of bull crappy that I have to do every day. And between all that I 
> find a few minutes every day (usually during office hours or in the 
> half hour I have before my 7:30am class) to be with the "in" group 
> (grope?). 8-) 
> 
> Interestingly enough most questions on the list begin with a 
> "praxis" question and develop into theory as we consider different 
> ways and reasons for handling the question. Maybe that's the nature 
> of the beast. We all work in the "ivory tower" (although most are 
> slugging it out at the clay foot of that tower [how's that for a 
> mixed metaphor?]). The nature of academia is to have theory to 
> support praxis, or to develop praxis from theory. Either way theory 
> has become the soul of that beast. And that is our training. Social 
> constructions in academia? (Hmm. Never thought about that connection 
> before. Development of theory vital portion of the social 
> construction of an academic climate? Anyone else thought of this 
> before? Maybe I'm stating the obvious again.)
> 
> We know where you are Prof. Carol; we are there, too. Not enough 
> time to think much less correspond on a list. Yet we make time. Why? 
> I can only speak for myself: I need the comaraderie, the shoulders 
> to cry on, the intellectual stimulation. I need this list for my 
> sanity.
> 
> deany
> 
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