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		<title>First-Year Academic: Teacher Duds and the Doctoral Impostor Syndrome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been experimenting with the phrase &#8220;the clothes make the man&#8221; and  &#8220;look the part.&#8221;  Thus my new (time) investment in what I call &#8220;Teacher Duds,&#8221; whereupon I turn out my closet looking for the best professional attire I can find that falls just short of wearing a suit to work.  I have to &#8220;dress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Packing It In: Gracias, mi tesis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cleaning my apartment &#8212; weekend diversion &#8212; I decided to tackle the Gigantic Stack of Paper formally known as My Dissertation.   And I decided to organize it.  And then I decided &#8212; three boxes later &#8212; to GET IT THE HELL OUT OF MY APARTMENT.  I have a tiny bit of storage space left and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onetoughvoncookie.com/?p=2436</link>
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		<title>Back to the Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I guess I&#8217;m blogging again.  Funny.  maria callas told me a few weeks ago that I would get back into it.  I said &#8220;no, no, no&#8221; because I couldn&#8217;t imagine what I&#8217;d have to blog about, since I try not to blog about specific things about work/students/people I know.  Or rather, I try not to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onetoughvoncookie.com/?p=2429</link>
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		<title>First-Year Academic: Surprise, Surprise Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I decided to go to my Online Academic Knitters group for advice about my course-limit dilemma (see previous entry) because I really wasn&#8217;t sure about my decision &#8212; and I admittedly *had* made a decision before I went to get the advice (big mistake).  Why big mistake?  Because essentially, I am gathering from the advice, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onetoughvoncookie.com/?p=2426</link>
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		<title>First-Year Academic: Class Limits and Ethics in Public Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What do you do when, in the first seminar you&#8217;re teaching on a semester schedule, a class that is a requirement for the undergraduate major in your discipline, and your enrollment is capped at 15&#8230; and there are 14 students enrolled in the class, and 6 on the waiting list&#8230; all majors nearing their last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First-Year Academic: Damned Nerves! Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow I have to march into the classroom and give a class on the late 19th-century short story in Spain.  A story by Leopoldo Alas (aka Clarín) titled &#8220;¡Adios, Cordera!&#8221; Here&#8217;s my problem: while I&#8217;ve studied both 19th and 20th century Spanish literature extensively, I feel a little ragged with Clarín, mostly because the last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onetoughvoncookie.com/?p=2419</link>
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		<title>First-Year Academic: A Journal of Discovery, Part I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is my first year as a minted Ph.D. and I thought it might be fun, years and years from now, to reflect on this process that is the transition from graduate student to professional.  And let me start by saying, quite simply, that it&#8217;s much harder that I thought.  Than *anybody* thought.  And yet&#8230; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onetoughvoncookie.com/?p=2411</link>
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		<title>Sleep of the Damned: Hella Hot-t-t-t, Birth of a Syllabus, God Bless the Sev</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s about 80 degrees in my apartment and it&#8217;s almost 1 a.m. &#8212; So not cool (literally and figuratively).  And tomorrow, it will be *over* 80 degrees in my apartment for the bulk of the day, and so, one must strategize a bit, especially when one has a crunch syllabus to write.  One syllabus, one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onetoughvoncookie.com/?p=2408</link>
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		<title>RIP: My Mid-Atlantic Accent&#8230; Sort of</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I moved away from Hometown, NJ back in 199X for college at SELLAC, a phenomenon that I had been blatantly ignoring while still at HNEU (a college chock-full of NJ ex-pats) became particularly clear to me: I had an accent.  What&#8217;s worse: I had a South Jersey accent, the worst of the Mid-Atlantic accents.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onetoughvoncookie.com/?p=2401</link>
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		<title>Earworm II: Revenge of the Earworm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alright Earworm, it&#8217;s really time for you to go.  I&#8217;ve just about had it.  No, not &#8220;just about&#8221; &#8212; I&#8217;ve actually had it with you.  You must leave.  And I don&#8217;t care if the doorknob hits you on the a$$ on your way out. I was actively trying to make peace with the Earworm, just [...]]]></description>
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