Sheila Liming
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The New! York! effing! Times!
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My partner built me these incredible bookshelves for my birthday and now everyone asks if my zoom background is fake
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Graduate school did not prepare me for what to do when you’re teaching a small evening seminar that’s scheduled for 3 hrs and only one student shows up.
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Received a “Save the Date” for a friend’s wedding in Chicago, followed (about 2 wks later) by an “Un-save the Date” explaining that they had decided to have a smaller ceremony with only family & close friends and I am no longer invited.
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Sometimes the little girl who lives next door leaves me flowers on my porch swing. ❤️
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Ope! The ‘Splainers have arrived, time to mute the thread, folks.
(It was fine; another student showed up 30 mins in; we made it all kinda sort work; chill yourselves.)
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Got my new .edu email address and I regret to report that, after a six-year hiatus, I am back to being known as “sliming.”
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@charlottemf406
Oh this is definitely *not* about money. But thanks for the mini-lecture on behavior, stranger!
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The archive that Indiana Jones movies prepared you for
VS.
The one you're actually working in
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I was complaining about paying my own way w/ academic conferences, & a friend told me to write them off on my taxes, explaining “So if you make $80K / yr ...”
I interrupted him to say that I make $20K+ less than that, and he was shocked.
The kicker: he’s my associate dean.
Academics:
Has any non-academic ever grossly OVERESTIMATED what your salary?
Someone thinks I'm "making bank" because I teach at a big university...I'm a grad student TA....ha
I'm interested in why people think academics are rolling in cash. Academic poverty is very real.
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Tonight a woman in her 80s pulled me aside to ask me about my lipstick.
She said, “It’s gorgeous. And I’ve been watching you all night — it hasn’t come off on your wine glass. Has lipstick changed?!?!”
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A student I have never met emailed me today, “Hey, Sheila! Professor [Insert Male Name] told me to contact you about ...”
Male colleagues! This is on you! You can model collegiality & professionalism by using your peers’ titles, and training your students to do the same! 💫
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@S_Insley_H
Try logging out of Outlook and then casting your laptop straight into the sea. Worked for me.
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Gave students some in-class writing time to work on drafts yesterday, told them to come prepared.
One student pulls out a TYPEWRITER — cherry red, vintage, portable.
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I was asked to review a book.
The press sent me the book.
I read the book, it was a very good book.
I wrote my review of the book, praising its merits as a book.
Reader, it was the WRONG BOOK.
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A morning of light so thick and lovely I want to slather it all over myself
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I, for one, would like fewer things to be “powered by AI” and more things to be powered by intelligent humans earning livable wages.
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My hobbies include re-reading stuff I was assigned to read in grad school, except now I kinda understand it.
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Muting this because the cavalry of goofuses has, quite predictably, showed up
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@AfterDinnerCon
Maybe don’t police other peoples’ relationships, or the vocabulary they use in reference to those relationships.
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I’m not crying, you’re crying: COME, let us cry about how this (from Octavia Butler) was the writing advice we all needed once and honestly probably still do need, right now, today.
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Tell me about an author for whom you are an incorrigible completist — e.g. you have, or else will, read everything they’ve ever written.
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The real canceling of Norman Mailer occurred decades ago, back when Eve Babitz described his penis as “middle class.”
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New rule: universities without functioning language programs are prohibited from having Latin mottos.
No fetishization without remuneration!
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My college announced that faculty won’t receive raises this year due to “extraordinary financial circumstances.”
I’ve been a professor for 10 years now and only received pay raises for 2 / 10 yrs.
“Extraordinary” my foot, my whole career has taken place under austerity
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I actually cite
@DKThomp
in my book about … wait for it … Hanging Out. Which his magazine,
@TheAtlantic
, published an excerpt from in December 2022 (and never paid me for).
But
@DKThomp
didn’t manage to cite me or my work. Interesting.
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@1catchecks
Yeah, kinda harsh. And like not a great way to get me to send you a present, either. 😬
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My friends live next door to Alison Bechdel and they’ve never heard of the Bechdel test or, it turns out, Alison Bechdel
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Freaking out just a titch because I JUST SIGNED A NEW BOOK CONTRACT!
The book is called _Hanging Out_; it’s part memoir, part manifesto, and it’s coming to the world via
@melvillehouse
.
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“Most STEM graduates don’t work in STEM occupations. The Census Bureau reported in 2021 that a paltry 28% of STEM grads are working in these supposedly in-demand, highly paid and important STEM jobs.”
a breakthrough piece for the mainstream press: "Why pushing STEM majors is turning out to be a terrible investment"
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8 years ago today, I was defending a dissertation that was kinda sorta about Edith Wharton.
And here I am today, elatedly weeping (just a little) as I work on the proofs for this:
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A grammar police dude who mansplained grammar to me on here last week emailed me to explain why what he did was not technically mansplaining.
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My William Morris fabric came and - because I should be grading - I immediately got to reupholstering and LOOK at the glorious results!
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I did not write a book this summer.
But I did reupholster an antique couch in glorious turquoise velvet.
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Shattered another friend’s worldview by telling them what I earn as a college professor. Doing god’s work over here.
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@saintsoftness
Damn straight. I think of this image as often as some men think of the Roman Empire.
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I used to be good at dealing with rejection, but then I moved during a pandemic and lost my entire social safety net and also didn’t go outside for 2 years and now I just want people to be like decent.
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I dreamed last night that I was served a calzone in a restaurant and it was filled with shredded pieces of my book manuscript.
Which is to say, everything's awesome, thanks for asking, &c.
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Nobody wants this.
Nobody needs this.
Nobody asked for this.
And nobody will benefit from it, except those who do not need any more benefits in this world.
Listening to Sal Kahn
@StanfordHAI
and he confirms Khan Academy is building a “process oriented” AI writing tool that will “write with” students from conception to submission and monitor and report on all steps. I know Google is working on tools like this too
@AnnaRMills
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Cool topic, bro
I wrote about the collapse of face-to-face socializing in in the 21st century.
From 2003-2022, American adults reduced socializing by 30%. For teens, the decline was nearly 50%. There is no record of any period in history when ppl spent more time alone.
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My only professional advice to anyone ever is to acknowledge achievements (your own & others) and offer a hearty “congratulations” whenever you can, to anyone you can.
It’s hard out there, and yet there’s so much good work that still deserves our notice and celebration.
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Lol thinking about the lit academic who visited my grad school campus to give a talk, and casually mentioned that, when she got tenure, she bought herself a horse.
A.
HORSE.
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Endlessly weird to live in a place that looks like puzzles I once did as a child.
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Anyone who thinks the college English lit seminar is a book club has either never been to a college English lit seminar or else never been to a book club.
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Honestly, the hardest question I was ever asked in a job interview was, “Why do you want to live in North Dakota?”
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If the nation has approx 972510584 university administrators, why does West Virginia need this one?
This quote is from the President of West Virginia University. Mind-blowing stuff.
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My somewhat ridiculous birthday present to myself. This past year has been absolutely awful, but things are looking up for the next one.
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Thrilled to announce that the skeleton keys I wore as jewelry back in high school — because I was an odd duck — work in the doors of my new 120 year-old house.
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I’m trying to write and my writing nook is perfection itself but also LOOK WHAT’S HAPPENING OUTSIDE?
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Outraged to find that, after several days of avoiding this thing I don’t want to do, it still isn’t done.
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I am a planner. I live to plan. But 2020 just WILL NOT LET ME PLAN. Not even a little.
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It's a beautiful day for a BOOK CONTRACT.
Thrilled to be working w/
@noctambulate
&
@UMinnPress
on my book about Edith Wharton's library and early 20th c. bibliomania!
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If I get one more email telling me to “flip my classroom” I am going to absolutely flip my shit.
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I dreamed my introductory lit class was way over-enrolled: there were 200+ students in it and also a couple of buffalo, and it took me three days just to do attendance.
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Possibly the worst simile in the history of literature.
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I once joined Twitter because I thought North Dakota was kinda lonely.
Now I know I joined Twitter because adulthood is kinda lonely.
Happy NYE, everybody, and thanks for being here! 🎉 🥂
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BIG DAY = BIG MOOD
(And get a load of that subtle, Pittsburgh color scheme!)
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“… if their kids are choosing to eat in the first place …”
is QUITE a line
Republicans in North Dakota have killed a bill to provide free school lunch to kids in low-income families.
“I can understand kids going hungry, but is that really the problem of the school district? Is that the problem of the state of North Dakota?" said Sen. Mike Wobbema.
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With final grades submitted and my last semester at UND now behind me, this is finally starting to feel real.
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GUESS WHAT??? I’m going to be editing a new edition of THE AGE OF INNOCENCE for
@wwnorton
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(And I’m *pretty chuffed* about it!!!!)
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Normalize calling meetings “meetings” and not “town halls” or “retreats” or anything else that sounds modestly useful, interesting, or fun
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Let’s give a warm, public domain welcome to Wharton’s cringe-inducing novel from 1928, THE CHILDREN!
It’s about men who refuse to grow up and women who are forced to do all the growing up for them.
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I miss accidental life. Everything—even the supposedly fun things—just feels so laborious and scheduled these days.
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We got a cover for this new baby of mine and it is PURE DISCO! 🪩
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I’m in a bookstore and it’s 4 days until Christmas and it’s packed and everyone’s buying BOOKS and it’s just really really beautiful, guys.
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My efforts to capture my Miss Havisham costume have turned out mostly terrifying
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Professionalism is getting to the point where you can say “Balzac” with a straight face.
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Muted my tweet about my amazing bookshelves because a buncha jackasses showed up and started wishing death and / or divorce on me for using the word “partner,” wow, what a world
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Live footage of me, yesterday, when a colleague called my writing “self-indulgent,” to my face:
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Worst places you’ve spent a holiday, just to put our current troubles into perspective?
I’ll start: I spent a Thanksgiving sleeping on the floor of the Atlanta airport after my connection was canceled. I had $26 to my name and blew it on an extra-large margarita from Chili’s.
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It’s my birthday and it’s one of those Big Birthdays and I have a new kilt and it’s pink and I’m going to wear it all summer as I bagpipe my butt off.
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TIL that Walt Whitman donated his brain to science but then someone went and DROPPED IT ON THE FLOOR before it could be properly weighed and measured.
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At the risk of sounding like an authoritarian personality, I would like to have words with whoever is responsible for this heinous feat of graphic design.
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I’ve seen the best minds of my generation squandered by the customer service model of education.
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@NushPowell
Our campus makes the at a bit difficult but we made it 90 mins and it was productive, I think
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LOOK WHAT I GOT FOR MY BIRTHDAY
(A whole box of books with my, and my gal E-dubs’, name on them.)
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When you pop by the library for some research materials but get distracted by a 1928 salad cookbook.
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People like to ask me how many books I, as an English professor, read every year and I’ve just started answering, “All of them.”
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Frankly obsessed with the morning light in my living room.
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Flipped off the driver who nearly creamed me in a campus crosswalk before realizing it was one of my current students.
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Considering quitting something — an article that’s been undergoing peer review for 4 years now, after 6 rounds of edits.
I’ve never quit anything but might just have to quit this because I’m out of energy and way way out of fucks.
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A friend who works professionally as a ghost writer just told me a stunning thing: the most common genre for which ghost writers are hired is ... memoir?
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Can academic rivalries and nemesis arrangements survive in a world without in-person conferences?
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Yet another day in which I did not work on my MLA paper.
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HELP my students are wearing strappy tank tops over t-shirts like I did back in middle school, what’s happening HELP
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Hey, I have an idea 💡:
What if—in this year of our lord 2021, while still recovering from the year of our lord 2020—we could recognize the labor of EMAIL as, well, LABOR and include it on annual faculty evals?
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Saw a student taking notes — notes! — in class this morning.
Nature is healing.
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Dude, my campus is gothic af.
I want to go around scream-quoting lines from Poe.
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Someone got a William Morris print umbrella for her birthday, and it shows.
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