Account timestamp text expanded_urlsOccupyMLA 11/8/2011 17:02 We are the text. We are the text. @mlaconvention is the endnotes!OccupyMLA 11/8/2011 17:03 Don't have any interviews at the MLA Convention in Seattle? Join us.OccupyMLA 11/8/2011 17:03 Your panel proposal rejected at MLA Convention? Join us.OccupyMLA 11/8/2011 17:03 Manuscript rejected by outdated academic press? Join us.OccupyMLA 11/8/2011 17:05 Thinking of swtiching to ICA, NCA, ASA, DH, LASA, SCMS? Join us.OccupyMLA 11/8/2011 17:06 Tired of political movements being coopted for twitterfic? Join us.OccupyMLA 11/8/2011 17:08 Wish your adviser had told you to focus on Mac Flecknoe instead of Rape of the Lock? Join us!OccupyMLA 11/8/2011 17:10 Not sure why MLA is spending more energy on Twitter than on promoting your essays? Rejected from PMLA? Join us!OccupyMLA 11/8/2011 17:12 You shouldn't have to be ashamed to be an English Major. Join us!OccupyMLA 11/8/2011 17:12 Your thoughts are more erudite than the venti latte you just served! Join us!OccupyMLA 11/8/2011 17:14 Your thesis about the queering of the Mutability Cantos was a valuable contribution to society! Join us!OccupyMLA 11/8/2011 17:18 Wish all journals were open access so you could show your analysis of transnationalism in Gertrude Stein to your auntie? Join us!OccupyMLA 11/8/2011 17:20 Feeling self-conscious that your parenthetical citation system doesn't include year of pub? Join us!OccupyMLA 11/8/2011 17:25 The revolution will be correctly punctuated! Join us!OccupyMLA 11/8/2011 17:30 You did not learn Middle English so you could teach freshman comp! Join us!OccupyMLA 11/8/2011 17:34 misplaced my copy of Edith Wharton's Summer -- favorite edition with my marginalia! Can someone leave one at my study carrel? #abdfailOccupyMLA 11/8/2011 17:35 Sorry, that was menat to go out on my personal twitter account. #derpOccupyMLA 11/8/2011 17:36 Overwhelmed trying to keep up with the litcrit in your field, apply for the paltry job offerings, teach, write, and tweet? Join us!OccupyMLA 11/8/2011 17:39 RT @academicdave: One thing I can say about UPenn is at least they act faster than the Catholic churchOccupyMLA 11/8/2011 17:40 RT @literacyadviser: On a train reading Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau. Published in1947 and still fresh. Amusing. Clever.OccupyMLA 11/8/2011 21:10 RT @briancroxall: I'm there. #mla09 RT @occupymla: Don't have any interviews at the MLA Convention in Seattle? Join us.OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 4:51 You're the only one in the cubicles who knows where a semicolon goes? Join us!OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 4:53 Tired of making syllabi for courses you'll never teach for jobs you lose to some assoc. prof. from an R1 Uni? Join us!OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 4:55 RT @dwiznasty: How do you MLA format an opinion? #wtfOccupyMLA 11/9/2011 4:55 RT @ambeerN: 60vocab cards, literature questions and answers typed mla format,4-5 page essay mla format, then ms.larkin homework this is ...OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 4:56 RT @prettylabels: In college you'll appreciate that MLA format. Double spacing comes through HARD.OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 4:56 RT @millahlove: Citing things in MLA format is pointless. #WastingMyTimeOccupyMLA 11/9/2011 4:57 RT @Patron_INMYCUP: this mfer ask to use my computer lastnight to type a paper and this morning i open my laptop and only his MLA format ...OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 5:03 Only go to MLA to meet the tweeps of the digital humanities -- and to tell them "stop hijacking my conference"? Join us!OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 5:12 You study cutting-edge textual display technology of the Early Modern period? Join us!OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 5:17 RT @PaperDarts: Literature does not mean now i will put on my long beard and lecture you. - @newcarriage #MIX2011OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 5:19 RT @aschwortz: Utah professor denied tenure for using the Socratic method. http://t.co/qo7sJQGD via @insidehighered http://is.gd/8Wtot2OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 5:26 Because this is what they say about you: RT @katielhickey: I hate you Bordo, Miller and Foucault. #collegecomp Join us!OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 5:31 RT @OH_LIVIA: Making a start on Spenser's The Faerie Queene. My Shakespeare seminar tutor assured me it was a page turner. It's reeeeeal ...OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 5:31 RT @louiselogan_: Essay on Spenser's 'Faerie Queene' now becoming ridiculous. I'm trying to fit in Madonna lyrics for kicks. #hellofirstOccupyMLA 11/9/2011 5:32 RT @Lau_SB: Yo deber?a leer a Shakespeare, o escribir sobre Swift y la s?tira, o sobre The Faerie Queene, pero no, ya empec? The Hunger ...OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 5:35 RT @phresh_kidd: My comp lit proffessor took my assignment late , yeoo ;D and I don't feel bad he said no one came to the last classOccupyMLA 11/9/2011 5:36 RT @Asia_Basia_: Wow, my comp & lit teacher is messing up my grade. ?OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 5:36 RT @MrBitches_: But I did sleep thru my Comp. Lit class. Good thing I did the work last niteOccupyMLA 11/9/2011 6:17 RT @DaintyBallerina: For those of you interested in bull and bear baiting on Bankside, look where I was this evening! http://t.co/VyXi7OcS http://twitter.com/DaintyBallerina/status/134074117107367937/photo/1OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 7:36 You believed what your dissertation chair told you? Join us!OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 7:36 You know what epiphora is? Join us!OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 8:00 RT @Laughbook: I don't have a comeback so I'm just going to correct your grammar and spelling.OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 8:03 RT @gophermagazine: Sad news for the paper-and-inksphere: the Colophon Festival is gone http://t.co/adXPozjg #design #publishing #badnews http://bit.ly/uN3cGcOccupyMLA 11/9/2011 9:32 Refuse to be an @mlaconvention DH #FF tweep? Join us!OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 9:36 Can tell metonymy from synecdoche and synecdoche from Schenectady ? Join us!OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 9:47 We are the shadow of the waxwing slain #999!OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 15:51 Over the next few days we will lay out our plan for the #shadowmlaOccupyMLA 11/9/2011 16:49 RT @miriamkp: Making me think about a syllabus for a class on labor & materiality in the digital age, or something like that.OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 17:14 RT @MatthewBattles: "They can make their tender meat slurry into the bones they didn?t need in the first place." @Awl on Mcrib http://t. ...OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 17:15 RT @nickmirzoeff: Post your work-in-progress on Occupy at Media Commons new TNE project, ongoing for as long as the community wants it h ...OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 17:15 RT @TenuredRadical: Tenured Radical hosts a three-part guest post by historian and former provost Judith C. Brown on change in higher ed ...OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 17:15 RT @sramsay: I would be very happy to run around the country teaching librarians to program.OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 17:16 RT @kfitz: OA for the public good: makes research more effective, facilitates innovation, supports education, encourages new publishing ...OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 17:16 RT @pmhswe: This planning for ALA Annual is going well. I think we're going to have a good cluster of meetings re: digital preservation ...OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 20:15 RT @loriemerson: today = needing to read Foucault. wanting to see a Matinee instead.OccupyMLA 11/9/2011 20:15 RT @crissxross: Occupy the Internet http://t.co/xe5Ff87E http://rhizome.org/editorial/2011/nov/9/occupy-internet/OccupyMLA 11/10/2011 0:34 RT @academicdave: At this point I would like to remind people of my proposal that literary studies become a subfield of media studies.OccupyMLA 11/10/2011 0:35 RT @RBTatAHA: Interesting. Anthropologists apparently having parallel discussion about future value of peer review: http://t.co/EPPwBk3x http://bit.ly/sBVYOfOccupyMLA 11/10/2011 0:35 RT @DaintyBallerina: This PhD will be the death of me. I'm so stressed and tired I actually forgot how to spell thus. Someone shoot me.OccupyMLA 11/10/2011 0:35 RT @mkirschenbaum: Just asked someone for what amounts to a link exchange. #hello1996OccupyMLA 11/10/2011 0:38 RT @KLeuner: I'm a little tired today and am getting my rev from handling and reading cool rare books in #wprp.OccupyMLA 11/10/2011 0:46 MT @derrida: All language is citation * and our citestyle=MLA! JOIN US!OccupyMLA 11/10/2011 0:57 @rgfeal we are the 999!OccupyMLA 11/10/2011 1:00 RT @rgfeal: @occupymla more like the 666OccupyMLA 11/10/2011 1:10 RT @rgfeal: @occupymla Wait, you aren't ocupas, you are indignados, right @samplereality, who knows (or has access to) the differance? @ ...OccupyMLA 11/10/2011 1:37 @rgfeal Not quite. We are the 999 lines.OccupyMLA 11/10/2011 1:48 RT @briancroxall: @occupymla @rgfeal Whitman got there first. He'll raise you by about 4k lines.OccupyMLA 11/10/2011 1:48 RT @samplereality: Consensus on rereading novels you teach is: Yes, every time. (But even if it's Moby-Dick and you're teaching two othe ...OccupyMLA 11/10/2011 1:48 RT @brettbobley: @JenServenti They give out nearly $1B per year in research moneyOccupyMLA 11/10/2011 5:06 RT @samplereality: Can we please just start calling this the Second Great Depression?OccupyMLA 11/10/2011 5:13 RT @OccupySF: "Dance like you have health insurance. Sing like you have freedom of speech. Love like it's legal." via @chickgonebad #owsOccupyMLA 11/10/2011 5:15 RT @occupyoakland: The city shut off water in kitchen earlier today- now have shut off all lamps in plaza. GA has more than 1000 in atte ...OccupyMLA 11/10/2011 5:16 RT @Pete_TheKiller: #OccupyCAL needs help!! Reinforcements needed. #OWS #OOOccupyMLA 11/10/2011 5:18 RT @MLAnews: ? Did you complete your MLA ballot online? It's at www.mla.org waiting for you! Elections matter. Please participate!OccupyMLA 11/10/2011 5:24 RT @ahhitt: Alexander's call for #comprhet: "I'm wanting more intersectionality from our field." Bring in other POVs to augment our own.OccupyMLA 11/10/2011 5:26 RT @mkgold: MT @_waterman A group of student protesters are my heroes tonight. http://t.co/wbqhAUjg #occupycal http://youtu.be/buovLQ9qyWQOccupyMLA 11/10/2011 5:27 RT @pmhswe: Huh. I've now been at two institutions in a row where scandals occurred & high-level administrators were forced out.OccupyMLA 11/10/2011 5:29 RT @annecmccarthy: the length of time it's taken me to grade these essays suggests that the problem is at least partly my fault. i don't ...OccupyMLA 11/10/2011 5:37 RT @garonsen: Announcement: Cops are now raiding #occupycal Berkeley camp.OccupyMLA 11/10/2011 5:46 RT @Jennisaurrr: so according to agostino, my page has no bibliography because she did not click on the 'bibliography' tabOccupyMLA 11/10/2011 6:09 RT @occupyoakland: 70-100 riot cops pushing protesters at UCBerkeley Sproul Plaza taking down tents. 1-200 students. Arrests threatened ...OccupyMLA 11/10/2011 7:14 Your tenure sticks in my tweeter. @MLAconventionOccupyMLA 11/10/2011 7:15 RT @geenacova: Riot police wearing helmets have put down their face masks #OccupyCalOccupyMLA 11/10/2011 7:31 @rebhaggerty good, for we stand in solidarity with occupypbs and occupypledgedrive.OccupyMLA 11/10/2011 7:32 RT @ACBaxter: Rose petals thrown over police on sproul steps.OccupyMLA 11/10/2011 8:07 RT @occupyoakland: Proposal for a system wide university strike to happen. Call for solidarity from other universities and workplaces. # ...OccupyMLA 11/10/2011 18:22 RT @DaintyBallerina: The real Macbeth was known as Maelbeatha. He had a wife called Gruoch. Gruoch! And her son was Lulach. Those mad S ...OccupyMLA 11/10/2011 18:24 RT @triproftri: In other news, the plot thickens as real story from last yr leaks out. dum dum duuummmmmm.....more at MLA for those inte ...OccupyMLA 11/10/2011 18:26 RT @KLeuner: I start teaching Mrs. Dalloway today! So excited.OccupyMLA 11/11/2011 3:38 RT @LupeFiasco: I love #occupy diversity! where else can u find a biochemist, a homeless brother, a physics teacher & a burlesque dancer ...OccupyMLA 11/11/2011 3:57 RT @GiGi_GodMommy: RT @_etonicBEAUTY_ i love MLA format your name takes up like 1/3 of the 1st page!OccupyMLA 11/11/2011 3:58 RT @haleydevane: Footnotes in place of parenthetical citation is the worst idea. I think. I don't know. I'll tell you Sunday night when ...OccupyMLA 11/11/2011 3:59 RT @RitaMayGraham: 1/2 way done the paper...then comes the annotated bibliography..and other assignment...and OTHER assignment...and i s ...OccupyMLA 11/11/2011 4:01 RT @CambUP_LitNY: @MLAconvention Cambridge University Press is excited to attend in January! We'll see you at the book booths!OccupyMLA 11/11/2011 4:24 RT @sarahcampva: Photo: mediumaevum: Petrarch. Creator of the Petrarchan Sonnet, and he entombed his dead cat. Makes me... http://t.co/Y ...OccupyMLA 11/11/2011 6:57 What will it mean to study Chaucer in the 21st century? #321CFOccupyMLA 11/11/2011 7:10 RT @missellequeue: Just visited #occupysf. Hella love to you all from #occupyoakland; Medic Elle loves you all! (Especially my fellow me ...OccupyMLA 11/11/2011 7:14 RT @DailyCollegian: Worth noting: Not all involved in tonight's riot are students.OccupyMLA 11/11/2011 7:15 RT @kakennedy: Peer review in the sun on the chapel steps. With a big bag of leftover candy. #wrt307OccupyMLA 11/11/2011 7:15 RT @shakespeareprof: The response to yesterday's mock job talk has made me even more excited and confident about my work.OccupyMLA 11/11/2011 7:21 RT @TheJordanWalker: I should have just skipped this class todayOccupyMLA 11/11/2011 7:22 RT @rgwakeman: Has anyone ever thought to stage The Winter's Tale with zombies? #comps12OccupyMLA 11/11/2011 8:47 In our list of demands, only the Oxford comma divides us!OccupyMLA 11/11/2011 8:48 RT @stanley_wells: It's the little tasks that get in the way of the big ones.OccupyMLA 11/11/2011 8:54 RT @AnonyOps: A note to all #OWS groups... Please be aware that there are political organizations who are drooling to co-opt the movemen ...OccupyMLA 11/11/2011 20:14 We are the 999! Join us! (But we'll still be the 999 because that's the slogan we selected.)OccupyMLA 11/11/2011 22:58 MLA, You have been cited! @MLAconvention @MLAnewsOccupyMLA 11/12/2011 15:30 To @MLAconvention the posts of bots and bands are likewise spam @rgfeal

OccupyMLA 11/12/2011 15:35 @rgfeal Sad to hear. (Actually we're quite sympathetic to your eye trouble. A few of our group have had serious eye ailments #nocoverage)OccupyMLA 11/12/2011 16:04 @rgfeal nb: We prefer to deal with @MLAconvention directlyOccupyMLA 11/12/2011 16:06 @rgfeal (I should report that a group on the backchannel chuckled about this.)OccupyMLA 11/12/2011 16:09 Today's thesis: occupy movement = rule by consent. America = majory rule. #thedisconnectOccupyMLA 11/12/2011 17:19 Today we are engaging in a shaming ritual that shows we are outsiders among outsiders #applying4jobs @MLAconventionOccupyMLA 11/12/2011 23:09 RT @JenServenti: RT @westcenter Senior faculty search at Bill Lane Center for the American West @Stanford: http://t.co/VSUnXTVp. Please ... http://ow.ly/7ruu3OccupyMLA 11/12/2011 23:09 RT @dailycal: .@UCBerkeley teachers sign open letter to administration condemning police violence at Wednesday's #occupycal protest http ...OccupyMLA 11/12/2011 23:11 RT @hernandezC2C: 23 % of full time profs are women #nwsa2011OccupyMLA 11/13/2011 0:57 RT @AnarchistAlice: #IamOccupyOakland because there is no future in capitalism. We need to build something new together and the occupat ...OccupyMLA 11/13/2011 17:45 What do we want? Jobs! Whence do we want them? @mlaconvention #MLA12OccupyMLA 11/13/2011 23:03 RT @KLeuner: just got a call from CU alumni assoc., on my cell, asking for $ b/c the uni needs it. You sure u want to ask the under-pai ...OccupyMLA 11/13/2011 23:20 @mlaconvention Why will you not answer our requests to tweet with us? #mla12OccupyMLA 11/14/2011 3:22 @MLAconvention We could communicate with @rgfeal but following @Bartleby we prefer not toOccupyMLA 11/14/2011 3:26 RT @TenuredRadical: Universities must adapt to the new economy, but to what are they adapting? Part II in a series by Judith C. Brown: ...OccupyMLA 11/14/2011 3:26 RT @nytimes: Occupy Wall Street Protests Shifting to College Campuses http://t.co/VGlrf8A9 http://nyti.ms/vxEd9MOccupyMLA 11/14/2011 3:27 RT @ncecire: RT @dailycal: Students call for resignation of top @UCBerkeley officials in the wake of #police crackdown on #OccupyCal htt ...OccupyMLA 11/14/2011 3:29 RT @pmhswe: The art of the conclusion is typically lost on me. In that, while I recognize when it's done well, I cannot reproduce it in ...OccupyMLA 11/14/2011 3:33 RT @jchochinov: #occupysf needs protection tonight against a possible police raid. Bring yourself and a friend to help out. Spread the word.OccupyMLA 11/14/2011 3:33 RT @larrycebula: Open Letter to My Students: No, You Cannot be a Professor http://t.co/xKp6bGD3 http://nblo.gs/pVymCOccupyMLA 11/14/2011 3:36 RT @BobArellano: Someone with convergent media (Film/TV and/or digital) chops wanna live & work in the nicest place on earth? http://t.c ...OccupyMLA 11/14/2011 3:39 RT @briansarnacki: Instead of saying Go/Don't Go, let's help grad school applicants make informed decisions & talk about reforming highe ...OccupyMLA 11/14/2011 3:41 RT @occupyoakland: Occupacolypse!! Big party happening after GA tonight at #occupyoakland. Djs, music. Party like there's no tomorrow :)OccupyMLA 11/14/2011 3:41 RT @rgrusin: Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference "What Happens Now?" http://t.co/jnv1DSmK #C21uwm http://bit.ly/u15OzrOccupyMLA 11/14/2011 3:45 RT @NatalieStrobach: I am so excited about the sample course design I just finished. So exciting!OccupyMLA 11/14/2011 3:51 RT @bannanabee: ?Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.? --H?l?ne C ...OccupyMLA 11/14/2011 3:52 RT @janina1985: "@SomebodysChlsea: I abhor MLA Citation. It should be illegal. -_-" agreeeedOccupyMLA 11/14/2011 4:03 @rgfeal is incapable of imagining 999 lines who aren't part of the twitterati! Of course, @mlaconvention follows the same ecosphere logicOccupyMLA 11/14/2011 4:45 RT @ANONYMOUSGLOBAL: Truth is an acronym for The revelations unveiled through history.OccupyMLA 11/14/2011 4:45 RT @reclaimuc: "el mismo banco que todav?a tiene los salarios de nuestros padres y abuelos que trabajaron en el programa bracero." #occu ...OccupyMLA 11/14/2011 6:54 RT @MakeMeTweet_: soo i have NO clue how to do a works cited list for MLA format :/OccupyMLA 11/14/2011 6:55 RT @_AndYouAre_: I don't even know why my high school teachers wasted 4 years teaching MLA format when I haven't even used it once in co ...OccupyMLA 11/14/2011 6:55 RT @TriciaRaquel: Let me just say how much I truly LOATHE MLA format. If I could go back in time and brutally murder the inventor...I wo ...OccupyMLA 11/14/2011 6:55 RT @WesKnowsBest_: Everytime I text my mom she send me a 5 paragraph essay in 12 font doubled spaced and in mla format -__-OccupyMLA 11/14/2011 7:05 @savasavasava @ultramaricon (we seek to be freed from our parentheses) Join us! #omlaOccupyMLA 11/14/2011 16:20 What do want? Jobs! Whence do we want them? @mlaconventionOccupyMLA 11/15/2011 3:31 RT @jbhathaw: As a former member of the MLA delegate assembly, I've got to say I love the idea of @occupymlaOccupyMLA 11/15/2011 3:34 RT @sabrinaidris: No one even knows what MLA format is, so why make us do it #seriously

OccupyMLA 11/15/2011 3:36OccupyMLA 11/15/2011 3:47 RT @FierceLust: I think my professor has sex with his Norton Anthology every night.OccupyMLA 11/15/2011 3:53 RT @i_am_rachel: I am reading Troilus and Criseyde. Well, 5% of me is. The other 95% is appreciating the salty deliciousness of these Do ...OccupyMLA 11/15/2011 3:56 RT @nicolecousins_: Successfully wrote a villanelle, structure is my biatchOccupyMLA 11/15/2011 3:57 RT @widowedanthem: Nooooo, someone else has already written a dissertation on the same subject I am doing. *headdesk* The exact same sub ...OccupyMLA 11/15/2011 4:04 RT @humandigitalist: I'm probably not an academic superstar, but a guy with tons of student loans, who rents, and may settle as an adjun ...OccupyMLA 11/15/2011 4:07 We love your 'nerdy little heart' @JennieGoloboy! Join us!OccupyMLA 11/15/2011 4:11 RT @AllieBGoLightly: One annotated bib and a 15 page paper stands between me and Seattle!OccupyMLA 11/15/2011 4:58 RT @carmisen93: I was living in darkness... And then I found the special collections library.OccupyMLA 11/15/2011 5:03 RT @gerrycanavan: 'Tenure Can Be Defined as a Right Granted to Occupy a Position on Campus without Threat of Eviction for Expressing D? ...OccupyMLA 11/15/2011 5:32 RT @professorisin: @occupymla Go #omla! Solidaridad!OccupyMLA 11/15/2011 12:55 RT @brownisthecolor: Time for the radical librarians to man the front lines... #ows #booksarenottrash #neitherarepeopleOccupyMLA 11/15/2011 13:25 RT @alothian: (and that's my life in a nutshell: applying for academic jobs while glued to the unfolding of #occupy on twitter.)OccupyMLA 11/15/2011 15:35 Say Nay to Adjunctification! Lecturification! aka Course Reliefication for the people whose job you deserve! Join us!OccupyMLA 11/15/2011 15:36 Think Distance Learning is a trap to reduce you to an email addy? Join us!OccupyMLA 11/15/2011 16:15 Believe you are more than your credit-bearing units? Join us! http://t.co/PcDCxJPG http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2011/11/21/111121ta_talk_surowieckiOccupyMLA 11/15/2011 17:10 OH: "anyone who comes across as above teaching freshman comp will not be talking to our search committee" http://t.co/WPraAgOJ http://bit.ly/ur6qHDOccupyMLA 11/15/2011 18:12 RT @amshukri: @occupymla Salute to Occupiers! OccupyWallSt and OccupyMLA! And many more to come!OccupyMLA 11/15/2011 18:14 RT @digiwonk: No, goddammit, I WILL make a fuss about the Oxford comma on everyone's draft. I just ... it's the best, clearest, and most ...OccupyMLA 11/15/2011 20:44 RT @academicdave: All EMAC undergrads have to do a capstone project. My favorite to supervise are ones using social media to make a bett ...OccupyMLA 11/15/2011 20:45 RT @KarlSteel: wife still at #OWS. Proving hard to grade and prep tonight, what with the worry and constantly checking the twitter feedOccupyMLA 11/16/2011 5:43 RT @ptpeterpan: when everything stops and loses relevance, even for just a second: perspective. be careful out there people.OccupyMLA 11/16/2011 6:00 RT @lynneeelw: I'm so confused on mla format so confused.OccupyMLA 11/16/2011 7:50 RT @jaybushman: ever get the feeling that from the POV of serif fonts, the future will be dystopianOccupyMLA 11/16/2011 13:35 Cannot calculate profit-loss statement for hours buried in the stacks? Join us!OccupyMLA 11/16/2011 16:20 Your thesis on Sir Gawain is worth more than your brother's MBA! Join us!OccupyMLA 11/16/2011 16:48 RT @amyeetx: So AAR has an app (http://t.co/4Zx2tgAH) for their conference. Can't #MLA12 do something similar? http://bit.ly/u63D9SOccupyMLA 11/16/2011 16:52 RT @playsthetart: Today is the ever-popular MLA Day in class! No, I'm serious. We play musical chairs and learn MLA citations. It rocks!OccupyMLA 11/16/2011 17:00 RT @MalachyQuinn: Unemployment figures up again in the North, yet no-one is threatening to resign over it! Shows just what issues our ML ...OccupyMLA 11/16/2011 17:00 RT @HanaaM97: Stuck listening to MLA lecture.... Thanks for keeping me company @MaddieG93 .... #boredOccupyMLA 11/16/2011 17:47 @readywriting @qui_oui @ffi_maija MLA is a front, a smoking room for tenured establishment typesOccupyMLA 11/16/2011 20:15 Launching #omla hashtag for the movment. Join us!OccupyMLA 11/16/2011 20:20 Deepest gratitude for @PorfessorIsIn & the hashtag suggestion. #omlaOccupyMLA 11/16/2011 23:51 RT @MLAnews: Read MLA Exec Council statement on student debt, with comments by Pres Berman: http://t.co/g17HvrZZ @occupymla http://www.mla.org/new_from_mla/news_summary#t504OccupyMLA 11/17/2011 3:20 Refuse to accept Taylorism as an educational philosophy? Join us!OccupyMLA 11/17/2011 4:25 Gargantua has turned his head! Let the conversation begin: http://t.co/ngUHYwSL Looking forward to our GAs in Seattle! #omla http://www.mla.org/fromthepresOccupyMLA 11/17/2011 5:11 RT @briancroxall: @MLAconvention @kfitz Gah! You crossed the streams!OccupyMLA 11/17/2011 5:15 RT @zakkorama: Had no idea finding out how to write an in-text citation for a podcast in MLA would be such an arduous and fruitless sear ...OccupyMLA 11/17/2011 5:18 RT @BraayanRamiez: Mi hermana es muy mla!OccupyMLA 11/17/2011 5:34 @rgfeal @MLAConvention Our community shares the sentiment that you are attempting to contain us. #omlaOccupyMLA 11/17/2011 5:38 @rgfeal Nonetheless, a small contingent believes you have other motives #omlaOccupyMLA 11/17/2011 5:40 @rgfeal A third segment, smaller still, believes you are @occupymla #omlaOccupyMLA 11/17/2011 5:43 @rgfeal A fourth cadre believes we should de-emphasize Twitter and focus our energies on @mlaconvention #omlaOccupyMLA 11/17/2011 5:49 RT @hanzimano: People's tax, coming soon to a university town near you. #occupymlaOccupyMLA 11/17/2011 8:42 RT @mkgold: RT @MLAnews: "Reforming Doctoral Programs: The Sooner, the Better," says MLA Pres Berman. http://t.co/BAjtXXtP http://www.mla.org/blog&topic=143OccupyMLA 11/17/2011 14:35 Panel for MLA was rejected? Special session denied? Join us! #omlaOccupyMLA 11/17/2011 15:20 Attempting to identify panels friendly to #omla. Tweet or DM us.OccupyMLA 11/17/2011 16:12 RT @samplereality: Reminder: comprehensive list of digital humanities and new media sessions at #MLA12: http://t.co/zKlx3ow8 http://bit.ly/n6NvZBOccupyMLA 11/17/2011 16:14 RT @literarychica: I wonder how many humanities PhD programs will consider the MLA President's call to reform PhD programs: http://t.co/ ...OccupyMLA 11/17/2011 16:14 RT @literarychica: So many thoughts on letter from MLA Pres. & I've erased every single tweet. :-/ I'm just gonna leave it like that and ...OccupyMLA 11/17/2011 16:28 The Communications Core has set up a new mail box for #omla : omla@mailinator.comOccupyMLA 11/17/2011 16:32 RT @Dr_DJL: Occupy: Cathedrals and Ivory Towers | Truthout http://t.co/mGL34l06 http://bit.ly/tR63PtOccupyMLA 11/17/2011 17:05 Corps & Orgs declare we ALL sleep in the bed the markets made, yet when we awake we surely find they have stolen all the covers #omlaOccupyMLA 11/17/2011 18:15 We will soon be accepting proposals for the shadowMLA via Twitter. #omlaOccupyMLA 11/17/2011 19:13 @AdjunctNation Let us build a coalition! #omlaOccupyMLA 11/17/2011 19:15 @KeethInk It is our understanding that we are engaged in a two-step with @rgfeal #nounpleasantriesintended #omlaOccupyMLA 11/17/2011 19:50 @AdjunctNation Would it be acceptable if we each keep our own name? Or should we devise a new name or acronym for our collab?OccupyMLA 11/17/2011 19:55 @KeethInk #altMLA #hackMLA #pMLA inspired our movement. Many from those tags have joined us. #omlaOccupyMLA 11/17/2011 20:00 Will you join us along the road to Seattle? #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 11/17/2011 22:25 It appears @rgfeal does not wish us to use #omla. We are getting through! Join us!OccupyMLA 11/17/2011 22:26 RT @ptpeterpan: I love teaching this Dickinson class. If only the 7 yrs of study + dissertation would guarantee me a permanent job somew ...OccupyMLA 11/17/2011 23:10 Sliding down the slick side of the higher ed bubble? Join us!OccupyMLA 11/18/2011 0:58 RT @JenHoward: Does the hashtag make the movement? @occupymla claims #omla.OccupyMLA 11/18/2011 4:42 RT @nickmirzoeff: "Can't Pay! Won't Pay! Don't Pay" Student Debt Refusal campaign launches Monday Zucotti Park 1.30pm http://t.co/VjX2GK ...OccupyMLA 11/18/2011 4:44 RT @readywriting: Lost Generation(s): Thoughts on MLA?s Reforming Ph.D. Programs | Inside Higher Ed: http://t.co/2h9i3dbB #OMLA #highere ... http://bit.ly/rVQaLlOccupyMLA 11/18/2011 5:26 RT @reclaimuc: UC davis occupies the quad: http://t.co/2hOk0ewc #occupycal #occupyca #ucstrike http://occupyca.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/occupy-uc-davis/OccupyMLA 11/18/2011 6:26 RT @adjunctnation: @occupymla Count us in!OccupyMLA 11/18/2011 6:26 RT @calcamonia: @occupymla Now, this is an idea whose time has come.OccupyMLA 11/18/2011 8:59 RT @pinkpearlfessor: So I've been falling asleep before 8 pm all week? I've been exhausted. I come str8 home & get in the bed. I think m ...

RT @ZackCorn42: Hey Mrs. Schultz,Stop being so mean.Sincerely,Zack.p.s. I know this is not mla format. Don't dock me for it.

OccupyMLA 11/18/2011 14:40 You're the kind of keener who obsesses over how to cite a multi-authored works in a multi-volume collection? Join us!OccupyMLA 11/18/2011 16:20 @NewFacMajority So glad to meet you! We are building a coalition with @AdjunctNation. Will you consider joining us? #omlaOccupyMLA 11/18/2011 17:30 PFC: Tweet you Proposals For Counterpresentations at @MLAConvention in Seattle #omlaOccupyMLA 11/18/2011 17:40 Re:PFC: If you wish to submit a proposal longer than 140 characters, please email omla@mailinator.com #omlaOccupyMLA 11/18/2011 19:25 Building a human gramophone. Join us! #omlaOccupyMLA 11/18/2011 20:20 Issuing apology re: prev post: the GA leave posting via the jointly held @occupymla to the discretion of he/she who posts #omlaOccupyMLA 11/20/2011 5:26 RT @readywriting: @rgfeal Faculty has been silent because they know they've been complicit in the growing inequality on their own campuses.OccupyMLA 11/20/2011 5:26 RT @ProfessorIsIn: @readywriting @rgfeal Absolutely. Faculty selfishness, passivity, cowardice is breathtaking IMO. May be 99% but don't ...OccupyMLA 11/20/2011 5:26 RT @rgfeal: @ProfessorIsIn @readywriting I don't find most profs fit that category, but I do find structures in place that isolate non-t ...OccupyMLA 11/20/2011 5:26 RT @readywriting: @rgfeal @professorisin Intimidation and fear are already widespread within higher Ed, now the students know it, too.OccupyMLA 11/20/2011 5:26 RT @readywriting: @rgfeal @professorisin We know that of we speak up/out, we're "not renewed." we already live in fear. Pepper spay in t ...OccupyMLA 11/20/2011 5:27 RT @readywriting: @rgfeal @professorisin There's a reason why adjuncts although we could shut down campus don't: fear. These over-reacti ...OccupyMLA 11/20/2011 5:27 RT @ProfessorIsIn: @rgfeal @readywriting then you're not paying attention.OccupyMLA 11/20/2011 5:29 RT @rgfeal: There may be truth in this "last generation" thing. Soon 75% or more will not have tenure, good wages, etc. @ProfessorIsIn @ ...OccupyMLA 11/20/2011 5:32 RT @jsench: @rgfeal I agree. I just don't think trustees are going to be thrilled if admins start working with occupycampuses.OccupyMLA 11/20/2011 9:31 RT @jsench: @rgfeal @JohnACaseyJr yes, of course. i was just speculating that admins mightn't get along w occupations bc of trustees' i ...OccupyMLA 11/20/2011 9:32 RT @readywriting: @rgfeal We need to start providing real leadership opp for non-tt faculty who are interested. Mentoring, networking, e ...OccupyMLA 11/20/2011 9:32 RT @readywriting: @rgfeal In a short time, there will no longer be anyone qualified to be chair, dean, VP, etc b/c everyone will be non-tt.OccupyMLA 11/20/2011 13:20 The Powers That Be are attempting to redirect discussion by using their preferred #occupyhashtags #omlaOccupyMLA 11/20/2011 18:30 Apologies again, experiencing a bit of disagreement among the #omla GA about the usage of our joint Twitter account.OccupyMLA 11/20/2011 22:15 Feeling adjunctified? Please tweet your stories. #omlaOccupyMLA 11/21/2011 1:20 RT @JohnACaseyJr: #MLA is so far behind the times I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Talk is cheap. Time to act. #leadorbeleftbehin ...OccupyMLA 11/21/2011 4:20 RT @jacremes: Are you a professor? Sign this letter to university presidents and chancellors demanding safety for protesting students ht ...OccupyMLA 11/21/2011 4:21 RT @bookdal: @readywriting I've been thinking about this for awhile as well. Inaction frustrates me, esp. from TT faculty. It's a mal-ad ...OccupyMLA 11/21/2011 4:22 RT @readywriting: Take Back #HigherEd | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/fT2tmNAU Some TT faculty remind me of #HermanCain and his comments ... http://j.mp/vUSFVwOccupyMLA 11/21/2011 4:23 RT @rgfeal: And I'm distressed that those who do institutional planning and resource allocation wld build a univ around 70% non-tt fac. ...OccupyMLA 11/21/2011 4:24 RT @bookdal: @readywriting I agree. It's the damnation of silence, as you stated. Stand by and watch the weak take your place. It's a sc ...OccupyMLA 11/21/2011 4:25 @readywriting We stand at your side in solidarity. #omlaOccupyMLA 11/21/2011 4:31 In every movement, a decisive moment, when arise leaders. @readywriting This is your hour. #omla.OccupyMLA 11/21/2011 17:47 In many ways, Seattle was the birth place of the current wave of public dissent #omla Join us!OccupyMLA 11/21/2011 21:12 Why is MLA the site of our protest? Why Wall Street? The insinuations of synecdoche #omlaOccupyMLA 11/21/2011 23:36 RT @readywriting: Take Back #HigherEd http://t.co/fT2tmNAU Scared, complicit silence is no longer an option #ucdavis #psu #adjuncts #oml ... http://j.mp/vUSFVwOccupyMLA 11/21/2011 23:47 RT @CathyNDavidson: "What will we do next? We're at turning point. Moral leadership is required" http://t.co/rKZW0Far http://chronicle.com/article/A-Plea-to-College-Presidents-/129863/OccupyMLA 11/22/2011 0:34 Looking for #mla12 panel recs. #omlaOccupyMLA 11/22/2011 1:14 Also, amassing a list for carpool/vanpool to Seattle for those near enough #omlaOccupyMLA 11/22/2011 4:11 RT @johnacaseyjr: An Open Letter to MLA Executive Director Rosemary Feal http://t.co/pbbpIrSZ #omla http://wp.me/p1MyOa-2qOccupyMLA 11/22/2011 15:44 RT @JosephPFisher1: @occupymla sounds too good to be true. I wish the movement well. I am the 99% of adjunct/part-time/no-mailbox-gettin ...OccupyMLA 11/22/2011 15:49 Suspect the digerati are eating the literati's breakfast (& then tweeting about it?). Join us! #omla #dhOccupyMLA 11/22/2011 16:50 RT @readywriting: Do unions effectively represent contingent faculty? http://t.co/pphrz0gl? #highered #adjuncts #omla... http://chronicle.com/article/UnionsOccupyMLA 11/22/2011 18:35 Funny how neither MLA (lit. or leg.) actually represents us! #omlaOccupyMLA 11/22/2011 19:05 If MLA does not stand for YOU, what do those letters stand for? #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 11/22/2011 19:18 RT @mattthomas: @occupymla Mean-Looking AcademicsOccupyMLA 11/22/2011 19:59 RT @giftsoutright: I support this open letter to the #MLA from adjust English prof @JohnACaseyJr:...OccupyMLA 11/22/2011 21:32 MLA: Misleading Lecturers & Adjuncts #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 11/22/2011 22:15 RT @readywriting: More on the (apparent) contempt TT faculty show for those off the TT http://t.co/P9KNd25n #highered #adjuncts #OMLA http://bit.ly/upafQBOccupyMLA 11/22/2011 22:21 RT @davepurcell: College students need to understand the danger of angering and demoralizing the professors who care the most about...OccupyMLA 11/22/2011 23:00 RT @stebordonaro: I love writing essays, its just getting started the most difficult part and this MLA bsOccupyMLA 11/22/2011 23:10 RT @x_c_aronson: i love english but hate MLA #claireholtzproblems #omlaOccupyMLA 11/22/2011 23:15 RT @nini_wtfuckery: how i hate thy MLA -______-OccupyMLA 11/22/2011 23:20 RT @manuwielo: MLA is ook echt een roddel school hee... ;sOccupyMLA 11/23/2011 0:05 GA reminder, AS PER OUR AGREEMENT we are NOT to use the #omla account to retweet various complaints about MLA format.OccupyMLA 11/23/2011 0:20 I don't think we can have a group twitter and make orders about how to use it.OccupyMLA 11/23/2011 0:25 Please USE THE BACKCHANNEL for this discussion.OccupyMLA 11/23/2011 6:05 We have had some disagreement regarding how to operate a people's twitter account. #omlaOccupyMLA 11/23/2011 6:10 In attempting to provide a pulpit for profs without panels, we do not wish to over police ourselves #omlaOccupyMLA 11/23/2011 6:15 Nonetheless we have reached a consensus and hope to strive for greater regularity without suppressing the voices of our cause #omlaOccupyMLA 11/23/2011 6:20 We, the 999 lines, stand in solidarity with you who have taken up the #omla banner. We look forward to the road to Seattle #mla12

OccupyMLA 11/23/2011 7:42OccupyMLA 11/23/2011 12:20 RT @johnacaseyjr: #mla seems to stand for making language absurd. An elegant way of passing the buck. #leadorbeleftbehind #omlaOccupyMLA 11/23/2011 15:30 Announcing the Occupy MLA T-Shirt Design Contest. #omla #omlashirts #mla12OccupyMLA 11/23/2011 16:30 @AdjunctHulk Use your verdant might to free yourself from the lowercase bonds of ancillary servitude! Join us! #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 11/23/2011 16:51 #omla #mla12 RT @moodyfred: Counting down to Occupy MLA Seattle.OccupyMLA 11/23/2011 17:07 @mattthomas What color then? Scarlet? Taupe? Something resonant, like this: http://t.co/7oYRDqp4 #omla http://www.snorgtees.com/t-shirts/wanted-dead-and-aliveOccupyMLA 11/23/2011 17:15 @mattthomas Safety orange! Yea, verily! Twill be complementary to @adjuncthulk once he joins our movement #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 11/23/2011 17:50 RT @TenuredRadical: In honor of Thanksgiving, TR gives out awards for the Top Ten Turkeys in American education this year: http://t.co/t ... http://twitter.com/rxOccupyMLA 11/23/2011 17:51 RT @OccupyWallSt: "You can't evict an idea whose time has come." http://t.co/bq6xBNyC #OccuPatience http://t.co/Pt3SJMnI #ows http://yfrog.com/nt3vqzwjOccupyMLA 11/23/2011 18:30 Love this title: Mokes with Jokes #omla #mla12 #294OccupyMLA 11/23/2011 19:25 Seeking recommendations of #mla12 panels. #omlaOccupyMLA 11/23/2011 20:03 RT @readywriting: An Open Letter to MLA Executive @rgfeal http://t.co/pbbpIrSZ I added my 2c. It can't just be abt depts anymore. Think... http://wp.me/p1MyOa-2qOccupyMLA 11/23/2011 20:09 Thnx MT @bendprof: 68. What Works? Integrating Culture into First-Year English and Foreign Language Courses #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 11/24/2011 3:23 RT @profragsdale: Use the holiday season 2 discuss privilege - earned & unearned - & how it affects the way the world worksOccupyMLA 11/24/2011 3:24 RT @livewithculture: Writer Jeff Campagna turns his poetry into art at Toronto's gallerywest starting today, opening reception Thursday ...OccupyMLA 11/24/2011 17:05 First #omla tshirt design entry. Keep sending & tweeting your designs. #omlashirts #mla12 http://t.co/iDZxpzZp http://ow.ly/i/lYTQOccupyMLA 11/25/2011 5:10 Please, post your comments on the #omlashirts entries as the submissions are shared #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 11/25/2011 12:30 RT @johnacaseyjr: Denizens in the Realm--A Response to Rosemary Feal http://t.co/EQ8qj8tj /via @wordpressdotcom #omla #leadorbeleftbehind http://wp.me/p1MyOa-2zOccupyMLA 11/25/2011 12:35 I'm a little worried that @JohnACaseyJr is putting himself in jeopardy by all these posts. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 11/25/2011 13:05 Please refrain from using first person singular for tweetsOccupyMLA 11/25/2011 13:10 Sorry!!! But aren't you worried?OccupyMLA 11/25/2011 13:15 BackchannelOccupyMLA 11/25/2011 16:05 #omla is a movement. @occupmla is a practicality to shield the most vulnerable of our number. Imperfect but necessary.OccupyMLA 11/25/2011 17:45 Second entry in the #omlashirts contest: http://t.co/hqVXLgI7 We are not sure of copyright issues in this case #omla #mla12 http://ow.ly/i/lZ2LOccupyMLA 11/25/2011 18:10 Unfortunately, the winner of the #omlashirts contest will be kept anonymous but you can take pride at #mla12 whenever you see them. #omlaOccupyMLA 11/26/2011 7:30 RT @de_kosnik: #OccupyLA to be evicted on Monday. Organizers plan for "Occupy 2.0." http://t.co/8KO8n5PV http://nyti.ms/ud2z7UOccupyMLA 11/27/2011 12:20 RT @occupywallstnyc: Whose streets? OUR STREETS! #OWSOccupyMLA 11/27/2011 16:20 Third entry in the #omlashirts contest http://t.co/VC356aGx #omla #mla12 Vote for your favorite or post your own http://ow.ly/i/mbJmOccupyMLA 11/27/2011 16:40 Does this one seem to mean to you? #omlashirts http://t.co/hqVXLgI7 http://ow.ly/i/lZ2LOccupyMLA 11/27/2011 16:45 We are glad about the submissions so far. We do not want to influence voting in the #omlashirts contest.OccupyMLA 11/27/2011 17:35 We apologize for the egregious grammatical error in our penultimate tweet.OccupyMLA 11/27/2011 17:50 Even though penultimate MEANS that we'd made our FINAL tweet. But we didn't. And everyone makes mistakes on Twitter. #omlaOccupyMLA 11/27/2011 20:05 Theme Song! #omla #mla12 RT @itswavey: Sleepless in Seattle, tired in Toronto.... http://t.co/q5126hOx http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR6z8297OG0&feature=player_embeddedOccupyMLA 11/27/2011 21:32 RT @upasfledge: Hey, any chance any folks in altacky roles not at the org in question might be willing to comment here?...OccupyMLA 11/27/2011 21:32 RT @upasfledge: Of particular interest might be a comment that points out the gross generalizations about positions outside the faculty....OccupyMLA 11/27/2011 21:33 RT @upasfledge: seem to mirror the treatment the poster points out TT faculty give NTT folks!OccupyMLA 11/27/2011 21:33 RT @upasfledge: Close paren.)OccupyMLA 11/27/2011 21:50 RT @trentmkays: @bookdal Yep. Some people have it who shouldn't. Some people don't have it who should. Adjuncts get treated like crap b/c...OccupyMLA 11/28/2011 1:30 Remember setting tabs and carriage returns for MLA Format by hand? Join us! #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 11/28/2011 12:45 RT @peterwklein: Great quotes from @UBCJournalism profs @davidbeers and @deborahcampbell in nyt piece on #OWS http://t.co/mHgx407C http://nyti.ms/scQWJiOccupyMLA 11/28/2011 13:30 Enjoy explaining to family that their holiday is an historical palimpsest? Join us! #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 11/28/2011 15:10 The fourth entry in the #omlashirts contest is in! #mla12 #omla http://t.co/Ebzfzfd2 This design is *olde scole*! http://ow.ly/i/meJCOccupyMLA 11/28/2011 20:55 Great News:"The MLA therefore insists on the importance of the right to free speech, including lawful protest" http://t.co/j3i68Eyk #mla12 http://ow.ly/7HFqlOccupyMLA 11/28/2011 20:59 The time has arrived to coordinate travel plans to #mla12! #omlaOccupyMLA 11/28/2011 21:24 @readywriting Your dilemma speaks to the heart of #omla. However @briancroxall taught us you do not have to attend to participate #mla12OccupyMLA 11/28/2011 23:42 @johnacaseyjr Sorry to hear. That is the story for too many of our number. We will rely on the virtual protest and those gathered at #mla12OccupyMLA 11/28/2011 23:44 Early voting in #omlashirts favours http://t.co/Ebzfzfd2 But we're still accepting entries #mla12 http://ow.ly/i/meJCOccupyMLA 11/28/2011 23:49 We just want to make sure you are protected from retribution! #omlaOccupyMLA 11/29/2011 4:25 Sorry wrong account. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 11/29/2011 4:46 RT @jjory7: Starting to get freaked for #mla12. Tried to sit down and write 3 times now. And, well, it always sucks.OccupyMLA 11/29/2011 4:54 RT @brettbobley: True and carved in stone. (This must change). MT @kfitz: The motto of many an institution: We Have Never Done It That...

RT @Soraya_01: "To keep an adjunct to remember theeWere to import forgetfulness in me."~William Shakespeare, Sonnet 122 #poet

OccupyMLA 11/29/2011 5:00 Continuing to build our list of #mla12 panels that #omla - friendly. The program is staggering.OccupyMLA 11/29/2011 5:15 Support #omla & the movement for improved conditions for alll Lit & Lang PhDs? Tell us when you will present! #mla12 No panel? Join us!OccupyMLA 11/29/2011 15:20 Even though we're the butt of this, we post the fifth submission in the #omlashirts contest #omla #mla12 http://t.co/8RviLaXH http://ow.ly/i/mjsIOccupyMLA 11/29/2011 16:20 We, the 999 lines, wish to remind everyone that #omla stands for more than a mere tee shirt contest. #mla12OccupyMLA 11/29/2011 16:30 However, we'd also like to mention that the #omlashirts contest is an important fundraiser we've been planning for a long time. #omlaOccupyMLA 11/29/2011 16:40 Nevertheless, this collective movement should not to be besmirched by peddling merchandise #omlaOccupyMLA 11/29/2011 16:45 No besmirching intended.OccupyMLA 11/29/2011 20:05 Great moments in MLA protests: #MLA79 Alice Walker stands up to claim the power of Zora Neale Hurston's voice and her own #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 11/29/2011 21:30 RT @amandafrench: RT @GeorgeOnline: Here's where #omla is correct: conditions for contingent labor in higher ed are abominable. + #mla12OccupyMLA 11/29/2011 21:35 MT @GeorgeOnline: But making WS the target of your ire and your movement is not going to get you very far. + #ows #imho #mla12OccupyMLA 11/29/2011 22:15 @georgeonline Like WS, MLA is the site for our occupation. Metonymic/synecdochic for a disfunctional, inequitable system. #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 11/29/2011 22:27 @georgeonline MLA is not a union representing TT or NTT. #mla12OccupyMLA 11/29/2011 22:42 #lipservice MT @triproftri: @occupymla I'm a bit confused about this comparison bw WS & MLA. MLA is advocating for change. #mla12OccupyMLA 11/29/2011 22:50 @georgeonline Well, we have to wait till #MLA12 before we can #omla.OccupyMLA 11/29/2011 22:52 @georgeonline Can we count on you to help us (better) articulate the calls for reform? #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 11/29/2011 22:58 @georgeonline We view these short messages as only the beginning of a much larger conversation+ #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 11/29/2011 23:00 @georgeonline However, our internal group is a diverse contingent, and consensus is a process. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 11/30/2011 1:25 #omla RT @bendprof: Best Happy Hours, downtown Seattle: http://t.co/cEEZT3Yp #mla12 http://bit.ly/ulynStOccupyMLA 11/30/2011 2:25 We are the squeezed MT @chronicle: State economies face big squeeze...low likelihood of restoring #highered budgets: http://t.co/UjnyeU3N http://chroni.cl/rIxSBFOccupyMLA 11/30/2011 3:15 RT @newblackman: RT @tiffanyrj: RT @777MJJ: Why Occupy Movements Unattached to Any Political Party Are The Only Hope for Real Change |...OccupyMLA 11/30/2011 4:28 @triproftri Sorry didnt mean to rebuff you. what did you want to say? #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 11/30/2011 6:42 RT @brian_thill: @jsench @rgfeal Postdocs are already becoming just another method for schools to secure top-level labor at rock-bottom...OccupyMLA 11/30/2011 7:00 Watching in awe: http://t.co/hiiMAzKT http://ow.ly/7Jq3KOccupyMLA 11/30/2011 8:20 RT @jaybushman: cops filing out the city hall steps into the park #occupyLAOccupyMLA 11/30/2011 8:49 RT @alothian: #occupyLA #olaraid speaking to the LAPD with the people's mic. "if a corporation is a person, go arrest them"...OccupyMLA 11/30/2011 13:35 Is this an entry in #omlashirts? RT @georgeonline: ( Or, to put it bluntly http://t.co/Sm8zpHxL ) #omla #mla12 http://ow.ly/7IKNQOccupyMLA 11/30/2011 15:55 Have the floor plans for the #mla12 convention center been posted yet? #omlaOccupyMLA 11/30/2011 16:10 @georgeonline @ncecire & indeed @AdjunctHulk have given #omla pause for reflection. #mla12OccupyMLA 11/30/2011 16:15 Or should we say have given @occupymla pause, since we no longer own+ #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 11/30/2011 16:15 ...or perhaps it was the events of last night in Los Angeles, which we watched with the world #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 11/30/2011 16:20 We have been asked to articulate the demands of the excluded, of reformers. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 11/30/2011 16:25 Right. What reforms do you want us to ask for? What solutions do you propose? Speak out. Use #omla as your mouthpiece. #mla12OccupyMLA 11/30/2011 16:35 Therefore, consider these a preliminary set+ #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 11/30/2011 16:40 Yes, theyre starters. Tapas! #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 11/30/2011 17:00 First among our priorities is the fair treatment and inclusion of the adjuncts, NTT, & lecturers in the bodies of power #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 11/30/2011 17:05 Next, the need for bodies of organized negotiation for these excluded groups, what MLA is not #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 11/30/2011 17:45 Consequently, we see a necessity for an end to the system that preys on part-time labor of postdocs and adjuncts #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 11/30/2011 18:05 To be sure, we are not against FYC: We teach FYC. We are against a system that too often treats FYC like alms for adjuncts. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 11/30/2011 18:15 And we love our students too! #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 11/30/2011 18:20 MLA is not our enemy. MLA is the site where the status quo is restated: the myth of PhD->TT->Tenure, a delusion for 999 lines #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 11/30/2011 18:40 But this year, MLA'll be the place where we can all have this conversation. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 11/30/2011 21:29 @readywriting Get well soon! Let us know when you write it!OccupyMLA 11/30/2011 21:34 Required Reading: The State of the TT Job Market by Scott Jaschik @rgfeal: "Just Not Enough" http://t.co/eHVkXBL9 #omla #mla12 http://ow.ly/7KoaGOccupyMLA 11/30/2011 22:30 But it's also about what's happening to our syllabi. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/1/2011 0:30 We didnt write a dissertation, suffer comprehensive & qualifying exams, endure nights in the stacks or in footnotes to get an alt-ac jobOccupyMLA 12/1/2011 4:15 @miriamkp Perhaps & we are glad you enjoy your alt-ac job. However, one of the few items we agree on is we would prefer not to #mla12OccupyMLA 12/1/2011 4:31 Yes. Many in administration & among our peers have accepted & promote alt-ac positions. Is it a crime to want a TT line? Tell us. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/1/2011 4:34 @patrick_mj Can you help? We cannot parse "most of you did (or at least a non-ac job)" #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/1/2011 4:36 @araqueltrubek Is there something the matter with wanting to teach literature courses? #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/1/2011 4:37 MT @araqueltrubek: No one entering a PhD program in the last 40 years should have expected a TT job on the other end. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/1/2011 4:42 @donnabickford We do not feel we are "dissing #alt-ac jobs" by saying we would prefer not to have them #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/1/2011 4:43 @amwhisnant Again, to be clear, we support your decision and are glad for your success. #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/1/2011 4:46 @araqueltrubek We appeal to those PhDs & students who are studying with the dream of attaining a TT position. Join us! #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/1/2011 4:53 @patrick_mj Yes, of course, jobs are good. There are many good jobs in the world. #omlaOccupyMLA 12/1/2011 4:53 RT @samplereality: You wouldn't believe how hard it is to send fake direct messages anymore. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/1/2011 4:54 RT @anetv: intrstng convos abt occupy mla. Legit concerns & I feel I'm not in space for critique b/c I'm lucky to have won the...OccupyMLA 12/1/2011 4:56 @araqueltrubek MLA is to be the site of our protest. Its connection synecdoche. #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/1/2011 4:57 RT @trentmkays: We didn't do work like everyone else has to do just so we can have a job like everyone else. We worked to be pretentious...OccupyMLA 12/1/2011 5:02 RT @bookdal: @betajames I think tenure is a placeholder term for a much deeper debate that the profession has not dealt with. It's an...OccupyMLA 12/1/2011 5:05 @betajames Thanked, whole heartedly. #youarethesolution #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/1/2011 5:07 I just want to say that I'm so excited to see so many of you chatting with us at #omla tonite! This is awesome! #mla12OccupyMLA 12/1/2011 5:12 @miriamkp Absolutely! Were big fans of you, Miriam!OccupyMLA 12/1/2011 5:14 We need to pause our tweets for a brief meeting. #omla #returnshortly.OccupyMLA 12/1/2011 12:30 We didnt all agree with how the @occupymla account was being used last night. Esp. regarding @miriamkp who we think is great #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/1/2011 12:40 So we had a long meeting and decided to change our line of attack, so to speak. #MLA12 Like I think we said: Consensus is a process #omlaOccupyMLA 12/1/2011 12:45 So we realized that our position on #altac (for ourselves) was being misinterpreted #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/1/2011 12:50 We agreed we want to reach out to the #altac to join with us because, well, you are us #MLA12 #omla #sameboatOccupyMLA 12/1/2011 12:55 Meaning, you were once in the the same spot as us if you have a job now. #altac #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/1/2011 13:00 So we apologize if we alienated #altac--or anyone else as some off you were saying #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/1/2011 14:35 However, now that we have commenced the discussion: We would like to formally reach out to the #alt-ac community #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/1/2011 14:40 As @patrick_mj has made clear, & our own internal exchanges have confirmed, a number of our number have held #alt-ac positions #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/1/2011 14:45 In any event, we take this opportunity to reach out to ALL those who want reform. May #omla be a tag for productive discourse. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/1/2011 15:20 YEs, but we also wanted to say we found the post by @brendbetham to be very convincing. #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/1/2011 15:30 and thanks @JohnACaseyJr It got a little heated. #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/1/2011 15:50 Hey, great. Does anyone know if the #altac people support the #omlashirts conteest? #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/1/2011 20:15 Student debt is a significant symptom of the crisis. #omla #mla12 Join us!OccupyMLA 12/1/2011 21:54 RT @nowviskie: .@occupymla Okay, I ranted. I'm done. Best wishes, most sincerely. http://t.co/PtG6Xyt5 #omla #alt-ac #mla12 http://is.gd/QLGLeAOccupyMLA 12/1/2011 21:55 @nowviskie we really appreciated all you had to say. Weve been talking a lot on this end and think you are right on #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/1/2011 21:58 @nowviskie we are sorry you think were so ick. Were reading up on your work. Its great #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/1/2011 22:11 @nowviskie reading over your work, we think youre an advocate. Join us? #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/1/2011 22:15 @nowviskie we dont always agree as a group, but we feel like are teachable & are learning a lot about #altac #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/1/2011 23:15 RT @rgfeal: I've been hearing abt postsocs in humanities that req app fees from candidates. I think that's hugely exploitative. What are...OccupyMLA 12/1/2011 23:30 RT @rgfeal: Geffert: what to do? 4 options. The usual: accept status quo; work around edges; resist it; invent smtg new. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/1/2011 23:50 MT @afamiglietti: I do have sympathy for those who might be unhappy w/ the low pay, insecurity, & high work loads that tend to come with...OccupyMLA 12/2/2011 0:15 We certainly received a drubbing last night. #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/2/2011 0:20 The ultimate irony is that one of us might secure an interview at #mla12 #omla12OccupyMLA 12/2/2011 0:35 ONE? ALL of us, right? #mla12 #oomlaOccupyMLA 12/2/2011 0:40 Rephrasing: To be sure, it is our deepest hope that EACH of us has an interview at #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/2/2011 2:40 Who will stand among us at #mla12 & where shall we stand at the convention center? #omlaOccupyMLA 12/2/2011 12:15 Adjunctification = edusploitation! Join us! @AdjunctNation #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/2/2011 13:10 @mjgiarlo No, you are truly underappreciated. We thank you!OccupyMLA 12/2/2011 13:30 Now that we have been properly disciplined, it is time to return to the business at hand. #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/2/2011 13:35 Raise your complaints, your critiques, your voices #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/2/2011 13:40 What are the changes you envision? We have arrived at the hour for new theses. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/2/2011 14:00 The time has come to address the issue of student debt, including, but not limited to, grad. student debt #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/2/2011 14:10 Too many graduates, PhDs, find only tenuous positions with low pay, horrific hours: exploitation. #alt-ac & ac #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/2/2011 14:15 "Distance learning" offers possibility but w/o proper care will be another means of increasing workload w/o incr. pay #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/2/2011 14:25 The premise that faculty salaries have caused the education bubble is a misdirection! #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/2/2011 15:10 Your work on your disertation was valuable, no matter if you can't market yourself #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/2/2011 15:20 Grad schools need to rethink how theyve been preparing students for the job markets #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/2/2011 15:25 We wanted also to apologize for not replying to everyone over twitter. Weve got a lot of grading to do. #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/2/2011 15:35 Thee's been a lot of hate on us lately. But we're already the most vulnerable at your institutions. #MLA12 #omla #altacOccupyMLA 12/2/2011 16:27 @briancroxall As adjuncts & part-timers we are vulnerable. On Twitter, we have chosen shelter. You are both brave & vulnerable. #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/2/2011 16:30 I just want to say, we're not trying to be THE voice of the reform movement. We just want you to speak up! #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/2/2011 16:45 Lead? Follow? Whatever. But if you were in our discussion sections, we'd ask you to at least talk about these problems. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/2/2011 17:25 No one will ever have to #OccupyHASTAC. Those HASTAC folks are already doing social change! #omla #mla12 #hastac2011 Awesome!OccupyMLA 12/2/2011 18:45 We should not muddy the waters by introducing other conferences #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/2/2011 19:20 Focus on #mla12! @rgfeal has already indicated in as many words that she is open to constructive critique & dialogue. #omla Join us!OccupyMLA 12/2/2011 20:15 We just want to remind peolpe that we share this Twitter account to protect our group from repercussions of speaking out. #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/2/2011 20:30 We also reach out to @nowviskie and #altac and say how much we support what you are doing. Youve taught us alot! #MLA12 #omla

OccupyMLA 12/2/2011 20:45 We know some people feel were weak to write anonymously. But this is how we can feel safe to critique #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/2/2011 21:32 @nowviskie Thank you! We obviously have a lot of work still to do. Some of our members are +OccupyMLA 12/2/2011 21:34 @nowviskie Well we're a mixed bag. Lots of strong personalities. Its actually what makes it such a neat group to be a part of. #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/2/2011 22:45 RT @mlaconvention: Need a place to stay for #MLA12? Best rooms reserved for attendees. Book yours at http://t.co/BeKKKH1Y. #omla http://mla.orgOccupyMLA 12/3/2011 4:28 @the_book_girl Tuition is a snare. To reiterate: it shall be used against us & to divide us. http://t.co/JO2rWPf0 #omla #mla12 http://ow.ly/7NeKcOccupyMLA 12/3/2011 4:35 @aabeaton We are trying to enforce a style guide. Not all of the cohort is complying. Freshly minted PhDs can be remiss #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/3/2011 4:56 @terilee007 In portions of the nation & in particular life situations, DL is a necessity. In most, it is a cow of PayPal. #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/3/2011 5:05 Realizing as this term pads toward its terminus, one of us will have taught FYC as an adjunct for a decade. #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/3/2011 5:15 Nonetheless, retiring this evening with optimism about #mla12 to sweetest dream, delivering a lecture on Chr?tien or Malory #omla #nyghtOccupyMLA 12/3/2011 5:23 @terilee007 With certainty. You must be a dedicated educator. Do not let them whittle you down. Nyght!OccupyMLA 12/3/2011 5:25 @terilee007 The most noble employment of DL. To be saluted!OccupyMLA 12/3/2011 13:25 Schools should compensate adjuncts, lecturers, & community college part-timers commensurate with workload #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/3/2011 14:30 Just wanted to say: one of us just got an interview at #MLA12 !!! #omlaOccupyMLA 12/3/2011 14:35 Don't believe it, dont believe it, dont believe it! out of my head! #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/3/2011 15:05 Astounding. If one of us did indeed get an interview, that is nothing short of a marvel. #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/3/2011 15:20 its true!! One of #omla just received an email and will be in the first round interviews in Seattle. #omla #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/3/2011 15:35 Apparently we have been astounded right out of our grammar. Ha! LOL RT @occupmla: its true!! One of #omla just received an email and...OccupyMLA 12/3/2011 15:45 Sorry, just got a little excited I guess. Didn't expect this at all. #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/3/2011 15:50 No, we did not expect this at all. Nevertheless, that is one of the goals of #omla, is it not? #mla12OccupyMLA 12/3/2011 15:55 Wow! Just heard! Awesome! Terrific news! Details? Details? #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/3/2011 16:10 Its very exciting. So cool! #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/3/2011 16:15 Party in Seattle! Which one did you get?!? What did they tell you? #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/3/2011 16:20 As a rule, we should monitor all of our accounts all of the time. #omla mla12OccupyMLA 12/3/2011 16:25 We do monitor. How do you think I found out about the interview? #omla #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/3/2011 16:30 We should monitor ALL of the #omla accounts all of the time.OccupyMLA 12/3/2011 16:45 Dont we have all the streams in Hootsuite? #omla #idontgetitOccupyMLA 12/3/2011 16:50 First round is on me when we get to SEATTLE! Go #OMLA! #mla12OccupyMLA 12/3/2011 16:55 Hey, I thought you make your own! #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/3/2011 17:05 BackchannelOccupyMLA 12/3/2011 22:20 We have been receiving some inquiries over DM about the future of our coalition given the recent fortunes of one of our members #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/3/2011 22:35 We assure you #omla shall continue, mightier for this good fortune. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/3/2011 22:45 Our coalition has never been contingent on our contingency. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/3/2011 22:50 We shall continue to advocate for those who have been neglected at the negotiation table. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/3/2011 22:55 Additionally, the future is uncertain. We may all ultimately receive the call for interviews, i.e., winning the loterij #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/4/2011 0:40 Adjuncts at unis, colleges, and community colleges deserve a greater voice in our institutions, including #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/4/2011 12:20 The divide between TT and adjunct compensation has become a chasm. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/4/2011 12:30 It is unconscionable for an instructor, TT or adjunct, to be tasked with surveillance on his students. #mla12 #omla http://t.co/fegRMTMm http://ow.ly/7NPvlOccupyMLA 12/4/2011 12:45 Those who deem #omla privileged complainers have never worked 3 adjunct jobs while attempting to provide for a family. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/4/2011 12:55 People who say were the "powerful elite" have never been a grad student in a Lit. Dept. #omla #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/4/2011 13:20 Over 70% of teaching is done off the tenure track, we have reached a boiling point! (@rgfeal "Rosemary Feal") #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/4/2011 14:10 Adjunct facuty, NTT, lecturers, we know you are overworked! But the time has come to take action! #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/4/2011 15:20 It would be wise to begin getting a head count of those who will be standing at our side #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/4/2011 15:40 Count me in. Now Ive got even more of a reason to be there! #MLA12 #omla #stillsohappy!OccupyMLA 12/4/2011 15:50 We have other ways of counting *our* team. We assumed that all of us would be in attendance. #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/4/2011 15:55 We don't know that all of us can swing it, eh. Now, it's looking a little shaky for one of us. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/4/2011 16:00 We will plan for ourselves during our regularly scheduled meeting. Presently, we are inquiring more broadly #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/4/2011 16:05 Neither @readywriting nor @JohnACaseyJr will be in attendance, correct? #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/4/2011 16:50 Those who intend to travel to Seattle, RSVP over public Twitter or DM. How great is our number? Join us! #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/4/2011 19:12 @readywriting Sorry to hear that. S eems to be the story for so many of us. #MLA #omlaOccupyMLA 12/4/2011 19:17 @readywriting We'll miss you and your leadership. But you can lead on line by using the #omla tag! Plus your column in IHE! #mla12OccupyMLA 12/4/2011 19:24 @readywriting We are looking forward to it as always! #mla12OccupyMLA 12/4/2011 19:30 Current admins in #highered are drinking our milkshake #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/4/2011 19:35 (Sorry, just had to try my hand at one of these slogans he keeps writing. #mla12)OccupyMLA 12/4/2011 19:45 Left one out! MT @mlaconvention: When tweeting about Seattle convention, use hashtag #mla12 and #omlaOccupyMLA 12/4/2011 20:30 In many departments, contingent faculty are treated like ancillary materials. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/4/2011 20:40 Sweet! That's how it's done! #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/4/2011 22:25 Due to our very contingency, when we are given the opportunity to participate in governance, our choices are often compromised #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/4/2011 23:30 We are the 999 lines. Join us! #mla12OccupyMLA 12/5/2011 0:45 Our desire for a TT position is not a slight against those who have chosen their paths otherwise. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/5/2011 12:30 The problems with #highered dont begin with adjuncts & other contingent faculty, but they're who typically pay in the end #omla #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/5/2011 12:45 The adjunct crisis has reached its tipping point. #omla #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/5/2011 12:50 In institutions that supposedly challenge social inequality, we shouldnt be creating more stratification #omla #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/5/2011 13:05 Dont know whether to be excited or nervous about what's going to happen at #MLA12 #omla #interviewOccupyMLA 12/5/2011 13:15 Does anyone have any recommendations for interviewing at #MLA12? Any tips? #omlaOccupyMLA 12/5/2011 14:05 Our #highered institutions have been charged with combating social inequality, not fostering it! #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/5/2011 14:20 Reading Assignment: Word for 2012 ? Action by @readywriting http://t.co/u8dcbRmO @omla #mla12 http://ow.ly/7NPKJOccupyMLA 12/5/2011 14:30 The student debt crisis is no more the fault of #highered than the mortgage crisis was the fault of banks. #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/5/2011 15:45 Just because academic jobs will go to <1% does not mean literary studies lead people out of the 99% #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/5/2011 15:55 Put it another way: I can barely make my rent with my multiple adjunct jobs. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/5/2011 16:05 Yeah, we're glad to have our jobs as adjuncts. Thanks for exploitation. Thanks (faculty & admin) for reminding us of our worth #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/5/2011 16:14 RT @readywriting: Grand Canyon U hires adjuncts as full-time online faculty http://t.co/Q47MWoxW So #4profit values full-time but reg #h ... http://bit.ly/s5M3JSOccupyMLA 12/5/2011 16:15 We adjuncts could really use a hug, especially at the end of a semester. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/5/2011 16:35 Had this idea: Hug an Adjunct Day. What do you think? #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/5/2011 16:45 We could make it Friday, International Hug an Adjunct Day! Not physical hugs, Twitter hugs! #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/5/2011 16:55 Well, there could be real hugs, too, I mean, I know I could use a hug. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/5/2011 17:00 But be very careful if you hug in person, there are all kinds of rules and penalties related to that one. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/5/2011 17:30 JK about the Hug an Adjunct Day. I mean, it's a good idea, but it's not representative of a serious movement #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/5/2011 18:03 More reading for Monday: Taking Action for Contingent Faculty by @readywriting http://t.co/2c0DoifX #mla12 @briancroxall http://ow.ly/7P98FOccupyMLA 12/5/2011 18:10 Additional reading: Denizens in the Realm?A Response to @rgfeal by @JohnACaseyJr http://t.co/G1Fx5IxD #mla12 http://ow.ly/7PbwnOccupyMLA 12/5/2011 18:10 @readywriting "Committee on Contingent Labor"...reads like a way 2 alleviate the symptoms rather than advocating 4 a cure #mla12OccupyMLA 12/5/2011 18:50 RT @academicdave: @kfitz @rgfeal I think the MLA can't on one hand say up to departments, and on another try to shape best practicesOccupyMLA 12/5/2011 18:51 RT @shakespeareprof: @occupymla Being an adjunct is tough, but some of us can't even get that work right now. I really, really miss...OccupyMLA 12/5/2011 18:52 Yes! Yes! @shakespeareprof Our group wouldnt leave teaching for the world, that is why we have held on! #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/5/2011 18:56 @shakespeareprof Awesome! Thnx! Should we do the Friday International Hug an Adjunct Day? Some -- no, all of us could use them! #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/5/2011 18:57 @shakespeareprof And <hug> right back!! #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/5/2011 19:01 MLA is not enough! We need a better advocacy and negotiation group to represent us and help us represent ourselves! #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/5/2011 19:31 So I guess tweet doesnt necessarily represent (whole group) endorsement in this case #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/5/2011 19:35 Not sure were behind this part: @readywriting Get rid of the conference job interview. #MLA12 #omla At least not this yearOccupyMLA 12/5/2011 19:40 @academicdave Dont know. One of us is actually looking forward, nervously, to her inperson interview at #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/5/2011 20:20 @academicdave Is it bad if Im looking forward to an in-person interview? I just feel like this is my one big chance. #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/5/2011 20:34 @academicdave So this is where Im in disagreement w some of my fellows in #omla but also why im here. MLA is more than a 501c3.+ #mla12OccupyMLA 12/5/2011 20:35 @academicdave MLA is a time where the academic power elite come together to mix, consolidate power, approve, disapprove, interview+ #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/5/2011 20:37 @academicdave a Skype interview keeps me as far out of that loop as I already am #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/5/2011 21:00 RT @occupysd: #occupysd #occupysandiego CREATE A TEACH-IN at Occupy San Diego! Teach whatever U want...OccupyMLA 12/5/2011 21:32 @academicdave Yes. But if you dont go there, do you really have a chance to access and change that power? What happens in the hallways...OccupyMLA 12/5/2011 23:36 Hope thats the case bc most of us cant afford to attend MT @michaelberube1: What does happen in the hallways? Nothing I know of. #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 1:15 Let's not allow the fortunes of one among us to sway the course of the #omla vessel. We have but one course, charted & underway #mla12OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 1:25 That is, our movement is about far more than just the interview of one academic, encouraging of her fortune though we might be. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 2:50 It is illuminating how the insider cliques take every opportunity to laugh at and deride those outside #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/6/2011 2:53 @michaelberube1 It is disappointing to see you downplaying the significance of attending #mla12. Nonetheless, we intend to attend!OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 3:01 We await an engagement with the ideas put forward by @readywriting & @JohnACaseyJr two of rising leaders #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 3:04 A certain notion comes to mind as we listen: self-satisfied.OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 3:12 @georgeonline Would you care to trade places? #omlaOccupyMLA 12/6/2011 3:20 What does it signify when the execs of #mla12 downplay its significance to those who cannot afford to attend? #omlaOccupyMLA 12/6/2011 3:25 Adjuncts, lecturers, NTT faculty, please, do not be disappointed that you are unable to participate in the annual conference. #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/6/2011 3:27 Yes @readywriting & @JohnACaseyJr we know you shall lead from wherever you are! #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/6/2011 3:33 @samplereality And do you know know what else can seem like cliques? Cliques.OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 3:34 Who isnt monitoring all accounts now? Hel-lo? Meeting. Now.OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 5:20 RT @alisonfchapman: Wishing the profession would be more humane. In many ways.OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 5:30 Just wanted to apologize for that last outburst. Weve got some harder heads here. Sometimes things get a little heated. #MLA12 #omla

OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 5:35 What we're fighting for here is more than some talk of "cliques" -- its about power structures that are difficult to untangle #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 5:40 And whether you want to admit it or not, we're all tied up in an unjust system -- and yes, some of us do want jobs in that system #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 5:45 Where are the other voices of those who have been hurt by this system? The outsiders? Who will be this years @briancroxall? #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/6/2011 5:45 This is not to be self-pitying or whining, okay? Just trying explain why we get a little sore. #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 5:45 And some of us have been hurt by this system, and some of us dont really have all that much of a voice, and some of us get a lot of hateOccupyMLA 12/6/2011 5:50 Cause laugh at us all you want? System needs fixing. And believe me, our little group is just getting started! #MLA12 #omla #igotyourbackOccupyMLA 12/6/2011 5:55 Certainly, we are in agreement. & Twitter can summon forth the worst in all of us. #mla12 #omla #thankyou #nyghtOccupyMLA 12/6/2011 6:00 We are the 999 lines! #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/6/2011 6:38 @michaelberube1 Oh, Okay. Thats great. #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/6/2011 12:35 Two more entries (I think) in the #omlashirts contest! http://t.co/fdtAlU17 Still hoping we can make money so I can go to #mla12 http://ow.ly/i/mPT8OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 12:50 I actually kind of like this second one http://t.co/77AJJpcZ Okay if we use this pic @bigsamthompson? #MLA12 http://ow.ly/i/mPTgOccupyMLA 12/6/2011 13:10 Also I'm still thinking about Friday as Hug an Adjunct Day (& STILL need hugs.) Thoughts? #omla #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 13:30 We are training graduate students for TT positions that will not exist! #omla #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 14:44 @academicdave We assure you, when the hour of #mla12 arrives, you will no have this problem. #omla Must be off to teach now.OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 17:00 RT @coreysparks: Article on medieval knights & ptsd. Interesting conjunction of medieval history & military psychology....OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 17:05 Last eve's celebration in "snark," lingua franca of a particular cohort, has opened our eyes to a necessity. #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/6/2011 17:14 RT @readywriting: Taking Action for Contingent Faculty http://t.co/Yxsq5Sq7 Don't be afraid to take a hard look at ourselves #highered... http://j.mp/uV1wybOccupyMLA 12/6/2011 17:15 As we build our coalition, we look to reach out to the DH group, the most powerful of the #mla12 caucuses. #omlaOccupyMLA 12/6/2011 17:20 If we shall Occupy MLA -- you Pre-occupy MLA, whether mercilessly @tacking those who have lost your favour or in courting @rgfeal #mla12OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 17:20 DH, You were the foremost topic of the press coverage of #mla11 & you have unquestionable klout! #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/6/2011 17:25 Therefore, as with the #alt-ac community, we wish to extend a hand in friendship, asking for your support #omla #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 17:35 bcOccupyMLA 12/6/2011 18:35 So sorry! twitter fail! we really need to build (unburn) a bridge with DH community? Ugh! We were not consulted. #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/6/2011 18:53 @cmleitch We are regrouping. On a daily basis. We have a volatile contingent. Please be patient! #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/6/2011 18:54 @amber_lapiana Thank you. Believe me, Ive been harping on this for sometime with the others. But we voted early on to share the accnt.OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 18:55 We really support those who are interviewing at #MLA12, even as we see it as an occasion for protest #omlaOccupyMLA 12/6/2011 18:58 MT MLA: "we rec. that all public colleges & universities reaffirm the right of their faculty members to speak on matters of public concern+OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 18:59 MT MLA: "...and matters pursuant to their official duties?without fear of retaliation." Yes! http://t.co/wmpcoDL4 #MLA12 #omla http://ow.ly/7QEI9OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 19:01 Once instructors are hired in TT jobs, they can tear down the house from the inside and build a better one. #omla #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 19:04 Taking a moment to call your atention to @readywriting's work stimulating conversation with @michaelberube1 and others. Go Lee go! #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 19:19 RT @georgeonline: One can be committed to improving the working conditions of NTT faculty while disagreeing with your proposals for how...OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 19:31 @hesterblum Thanks for calling our attention to this! #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 19:34 One of us is really looking forward to meeting @michaelberube1 in person at #MLA12 Hes a very charismatic figure. #omlaOccupyMLA 12/6/2011 19:40 @roopikarisam Right on! And this case what do you think the "master's tools" are? Its interesting. #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 19:46 @hesterblum okay, I hate to say it, but quite attractive, to. I mean, judging from his picture. #MLA12 #ac-crushOccupyMLA 12/6/2011 19:50 @bad_subject Well a lot of people out there we follow say theryre trying to do just that! #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 20:14 @hesterblum Im sorry if I overstepped. I didn't mean to imply anything abotu you with that last tweet #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 20:44 RT @serial_consign: Teaching is great. The post-secondary bureaucratic machine is more dire than anything Kafka could have imagined.OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 20:55 Planning sample syllabus for Medieval Lit. course, as a mental exercise. #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/6/2011 21:05 Sounds like one of us needs a hug! Wait for Friday! #hugaaday #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 23:10 Looking ovr the last week or so, wed also like to reach out to @triproftri who felt like we were brushing her off #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/6/2011 23:15 Reading over @triproftri work and her own battle for tenure she seems like a real role model for #omla #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/6/2011 23:20 Need to grade now but hope to hear from her, hope shell give a second chance at discussing these issues #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/7/2011 4:28 RT @johnacaseyjr: We Are Not Contingent! An Adjunct Manifesto. http://t.co/af6aBAZG via @wordpressdotcom #omla #highered #mla12... http://wp.me/p1MyOa-3eOccupyMLA 12/7/2011 4:30 RT @autologophagist:I suspect that part of the problem is that non-medievalists seem to just shut down when a medievalist talks #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/7/2011 4:45 Late Nite Grading in Forced/Shared office no joke when Someone uses speakers, not headphones. Let's talk space allocations at #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/7/2011 5:50 bigsam's 3-headed cat: can't get your diploma w/o a tip o' the hat to cerebus cat! = The untenured who make your graduation possible #mla12OccupyMLA 12/7/2011 8:17 OH: the MLA is a gerontocracy, thanks to the end of mandatory retirement and the dearth of new tenure-track positions. #mla09 #mla12OccupyMLA 12/7/2011 12:35 RT @readywriting: Killing Two Birds with One Giant Stone: Tenure http://t.co/EEBf6gFl Changing #highered won't be easy #omla #loveHE #cndpse http://j.mp/tDA1AxOccupyMLA 12/7/2011 12:45 Want us to feel less contingent? Stop calling us contingent. http://t.co/LFHYm1Rx #mla12 #omla http://adjunctmanifesto.tumblr.com/OccupyMLA 12/7/2011 13:45 If you're giving out course evaluations this week, we recommend donuts, Tim Hortons here we come! #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/7/2011 15:00 The numbers of occupiers traveling to #mla12 are disappointing low so far. Where is the courage? Are we so without resolve? #omlaOccupyMLA 12/7/2011 19:01 The kinds of people who are supporting #omla are the kinds of people youd want to hire at your school! #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/7/2011 21:33 @readywriting Nothing beats the TH!OccupyMLA 12/7/2011 21:35 Don't forget to <hug> an Adjunct on Friday! #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/7/2011 21:45 Tired of hiding your research because "Only T-Track Fac are paid for research! You're paid to teach!"? Occupy MLA. Resolve. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 0:25 People even in #omla tend to slam my #omlashirts contest. Fact is, I've got to be a part of this movement. I've got to get to #mla12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 0:30 OK. Here is why I'm #omla. The other shoe finally dropped at my gf's institution down south. No health care for her starting fall '12 #mla12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 0:35 Wish I could play recording of quarter-hour of sobbing gf on phone over lost health care to responsibles. Seriously, world. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 1:05 Somebody make angry big #omlashirts about institutions who keep adjuncts under 20 hrs so they don't have to pay health care. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 3:05 Can anybody with access to good database find figures about how many US adjuncts don't have healthcare? Percentage? #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 6:54 @karrrn Heres to hoping we will have both.OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 8:10 RT @daintyballerina: Oh Mr Lavazza, slayer of nightmares, thy picture in my sight awakes my heart to heart's and eye's delight.OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 8:12 RT @literarychica:@mrsalander @peoplegogy And that's one reason why unions for adjuncts are important. We didn't have a union where I taughtOccupyMLA 12/8/2011 12:30 Nervous taking a gamble shopping for my #MLA12 interview outfit. Its worth racking up the debt, rt? #omlaOccupyMLA 12/8/2011 12:35 Tips on dress for women interviewing at #MLA12? #omlaOccupyMLA 12/8/2011 12:55 OK, OK, enough! Its not that I refuse to use apostrophes. Just that they are an absolute pain in the butt with this phone. #MLA12 #omla 'OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 13:15 Its not a crime that you won't hire us full time. Whats a crime is that you dont want to pay for our healthcare. #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 13:25 #omla in the NYTimes: Maybe the most wry and eloquent of all the Occupy Twitter feeds is Occupy MLA http://t.co/8oOtQsND #MLA12 http://ow.ly/7SCa2OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 13:30 But I take issue with "downtrodden." Im fairly upbeat. #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/8/2011 14:25 Last night awoke startled & icy from dream of a job, TT Medieval Prof, but the position was incarnate as Heloise, and I Abelard. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 16:33 @readywriting I know! I wish Id heard about the interview b4 Black Friday - and when I did hear I was too stunned to shop. #omla #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 16:33 @readywriting @PorfessorIsIn I LOVE her blog. Will look for tips. #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/8/2011 16:37 @mettawishes I dont know whether to laugh or cry about that one.OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 16:52 believe me, its not about dressing to impress, but my gradstudent wardrobe would make me look like I was dressing to distress #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/8/2011 17:34 Well said! RT @wynkenhimself: real #mla12 tip: People are awkward. Conferences can make it more so. Be kind. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 18:05 Don't forget: Tomorrow's the big day. <hug> an Adjunct! Lecturers and NTT, too! Let instructors know we are worth something! #mla12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 18:20 Just tweet a <hug> @ an adjunct you know. They might be just tweets, but they still can take the edge off a semester. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 18:25 And while a <hug> does not count as a healthcare plan, some hugs for adjuncts on one little day, might feel pretty good #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 18:31 @savasavasava how do you feel about the "donald duck" hug? I mean for friends, not for random colleagues. I've got friends who min. contactOccupyMLA 12/8/2011 19:30 We have recently become aware of attempts to uncover the identity of our members. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 19:35 We wish to make it clear that our anonymity is but the sheerest screen to protect the most vulnerable among us. #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/8/2011 19:47 Of course, we expected to be pursued by #mla12 and those associated with it. However, this intrusion has been far more surreptitious.OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 19:50 It was only one reporter. Not like someone could figure out who we are? #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 19:55 There were others. We have witnessed the traces of their attempts. #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/8/2011 20:05 Some of us are only grad studens. Well, ABD -- 1 chapter left #mla12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 20:10 1 chapter left? Congrats!OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 20:15 All of us are vulnerable. We are staging a protest. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 20:17 BC? #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 20:19 No, as a matter of fact, no, people need to comprehend that they are placing us in jeopardy. This is not a joke for us. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 20:20 But one of us hs been in the same adjunct slot for 10 years. Pretty secure! More secure. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 20:23 Or as they respond to, say, the irony of my tweets, the humour, they may not understand that I would be imperiled if exposed #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/8/2011 20:24 If I lose this interview... #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 20:25 None among us is secure. That is the point. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 20:25 What about me? What about my gf? I thought you said they couldn't trace us. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 20:29 I didn't even think that either of them was following us. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 20:30 This could screw up my interview royally, rt? What could you possibly gain by exposing us? #omla #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 20:31 Your interview is of no concern here. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 20:32 nice. jealous much? #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/8/2011 20:45 The hour has come to erect un rempart #mla12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 1:30 We have begun steps toward protecting ourselves, and we would encourage other members of the resistance to be mindful of lurkers. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 3:30 Remember that tomorrow is International Hug an Adjunct Day #mla12 #omla <hug>OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 3:45 RT @janniaragon: Just thinking of all the unpaid work that contingent fac and even t-t stream do. @readywriting Worse for contingent, no...OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 5:40 Tired of hiding your research because "Only T-Track Fac are paid for research! You're paid to teach!"? Occupy MLA. Resolve. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 6:10 @readywriting Good. Looks like a starting place for a conversation, Lee #mla12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 6:20 Tumblr for Adjunct Manifesto http://t.co/M9LvCufq Thanks @readywriting! #mla12 #omla http://bit.ly/t3k8RpOccupyMLA 12/9/2011 6:30 Assigned Reading:Vancouver's Program for Change http://t.co/eZ9WSTOQ #mla12 #omla http://ow.ly/7TLjBOccupyMLA 12/9/2011 6:43 @johnacaseyjr Good night, John. Thank you for fighting the good fight!OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 7:39 In some parts of the world, International Hug an Adjunct Day is well underway! <hugs> <abrazos> <??????><?m><???????><k?denpuristus> #mla12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 10:35 "20 yrs from now, do we want to be still talking abt the issues of TT and NTT and adjunct faculty w little comprehensive progress?" #mla12

OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 13:20 Announcing: International Hug an Adjunct Day!!! Commence <hug> #omla #mla12 (includes NTT, lecturers, & instructors)OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 13:35 We've got so many hugs of our own to give: <hug> @AdjunctNation <hug> @NewFacMajority #mla12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 13:40 GREAT BIG <HUG> to @AdjunctHulk (Please don't hug us back!)OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 13:50 <hug> and <kiss> to my sweetie down there in the States. I love you. It WILL work out somehow, I promise.OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 14:00 Remember, a <hug> is only a sign of affection on the road, hopefully, to genuine reform. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 14:05 <hug> to leaders @JohnACaseyJr & @readywriting We love you! #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 14:15 If you are an adjunct, NTT, or a lecturer, please let us know so we can share a <hug> wit you cause giving them feels good, too. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 14:30 Please know, we do this out of sincere appreciation for all that you put up with every semester w/o respect, benefits, vote #mla12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 14:45 <hug> to @savasavasava who cheered on our hugging campaign! I checked out your tweets. You know the power of hugs!!!OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 15:00 We'd like to encourage TT faculty and admins to share the <hug>. Ring in the new era of Hugsploitation! #mla12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 16:34 Thanks for all the <hugs> back. Keep 'em flowing! Remember, a hug is a gift you get when you give! International Hug and Adjunct Day!OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 17:45 And so consummatum est the last hour of my 19th semester teaching FYC as adjunct. Next year the holy land - or at least the Crusades! #mla12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 17:50 Refused to compromise my course with said donuts. Instead delivered the sweets of a favorite passage from Chr?tien:+ #mla12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 17:55 Ah, what a valiant knight! How he lays his enemies low, and how fiercely he attacks them! He hurls himslef at them+ #mla12 .OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 18:00 like a lion among fallow deer when it is driven & tormented by hunger.& all our other knights are bolder & more spirited bc of him+ #mla12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 18:05 for were it not for him alone, not a lance would have been broken or any sword drawn to strike.[And the most beautiful of epigrams]+ #mla12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 18:10 When one finds a man of worth, he should be well loved and cherished (Chr?tien trans. by D.D.R. Owen of St. Andrews) #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 18:15 In 10 yrs teaching FYC reading the evals of novice writers, my lessons have been praised but what I love, Literature, never cherished #mla12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 18:20 Wow. Only one thing you need now! <hug><hug><hug>! #omla Oh, and shoulda given 'em donuts. Gets better evals! And we need those evals!OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 18:30 Which reminds me: International Hug and Adjunct Day continues! And lets throw in graduate student teachers! <hug><hug><hug>! #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 18:47 Coffee spilled on jeans due to startling lovely stealth-hug at coffee machine in honor of HugAnAdjunct day. Proud stain!! #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 19:30 Special <hug> to @briancroxall who began a convo on reform and Rockupied MLA! #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 19:35 <hug> to @mattthomas. Dude used to chat with us more. We miss you! #omlaOccupyMLA 12/9/2011 19:55 <hug> to @mrsalander who helped us spread the word on International Hug and Adjunct Day. Thank you! Youre great!OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 19:58 @mattthomas I think we all know how that goes at this time of year. Thanks! See you in Seattle!OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 20:00 Id like to send a personal <hug> to @professorisin who has posted such terrific advice on interviewing! Thank you!OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 20:05 <hug> to @literarychica who just seems like a nice person.OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 20:05 @savasavasava You are so sweet! I really feel like you know the secret of hugs. And after this semester, we could all use them, right?OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 20:10 <hug> and congrats to @whitneytrettien on your fellowship! Youre awesome!! #waytogoOccupyMLA 12/9/2011 20:11 +++ RT @savasavasava: @occupymla oh I've always known ;) ask around! life without hugs is not a life worth living.OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 20:15 A <hug> for @tmcphers who retweeted our call for International Hug an Adjunct Day! #omla #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 20:20 <hug> to @ncecire really just because you were there in the early days of the movement. #omlaOccupyMLA 12/9/2011 20:24 @readywriting Lee! Heres a @savasavasava-style <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<hug>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sorry to hear about your day.OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 20:25 Im going to send a <hug> to @academicdave even though I still want an inperson interview rather than Skype! Youre a fighter, too! Thanks!OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 20:26 @ncecire Oh, no. Remember your early idea abt dance remixes? Cheered us up! Fun!OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 20:30 International Hug an Adjunct Day embraces a better future for all! <hugs> <abrazos> <??????><?m><???????><k?denpuristus> #mla12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 20:31 @ncecire Well, we have our differenes of opinion as a group and thats lead to some rough times. But we still believe in your work! <hug>OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 20:32 @tmcphers Several? Please give them some hugs from us!OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 20:34 @ncecire Yes, are you going to #mla12? I can explain the MLA citation RTs. They werent what you think. So excited abt my interview!OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 20:35 @surlyf Im not sure which one of us followed you or why, but your picture looks like you could use a <hug>OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 20:36 @savasavasava I think Ive had that all this semester! And another one of #omla may have had it his whole life. *halipula* snds like a curseOccupyMLA 12/9/2011 20:41 @tmcphers <hugs> keep us going, but benefits keep us alive? Hugs & Benefits are best of all!OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 21:00 Wanted a group hug in adjunct office but no room for five-way hug. Does that tell you something about space allotment? #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 21:03 @surlyf Yeah, but we're adjuncts! So it works out!OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 21:05 Also wanted to send a <hug> to @cmleitch who gave a sweet shoutout of support. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 21:10 I want a We Are Not Contingent T-shirt so much! Stick an #omla paperclip on the collar. Please someone design one! #mla12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 21:15 <hug> to @BenRobertson who had our back against the gerontocracy yesterday. Sorry we didn't see your tweet to too late! #mla12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 21:20 We gotta spread the hugs today. <hug> for @nowviskie and the #alt-ac folks!OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 21:32 @miriamkp Are you teasing? No worries. Here's a <hug> for you both. Now please spread the <hugs> & promote the adjunct rights!OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 21:38 <hug> & <hug> to @anarchivist & @barkivist Yes, International Hug an Adjunct Day!OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 21:42 @rogerwhitson Tell it to @miriamkp. Don't look at us.OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 22:05 In this institute for higher education, why must it be that we reach semester's end & still no teaching schedules for the adjuncts? #mla12OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 22:15 <limpid handshake> for the chair of this department who holds an online certificate in belittling adjunct faculty! #omla <bite thumb>OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 22:45 <hug> to @GeorgeOnline even though he gets so disappointed in us! #omla #mla12 That guy's like my dad.OccupyMLA 12/9/2011 23:00 International Hug an Adjunct Day wrap your arms around change in #highered! <hugs> <abrazos> <??????><?m><???????><k?denpuristus> #mla12OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 0:00 OMLAers: I haven't gotten any BackChannel messsages in a while. Did I miss a meeting or or something?Sorry this is public. #omlaOccupyMLA 12/10/2011 0:48 Sending a <hug> out to @triproftri who tried to chat with us but we snarked. Hope we can talk soon! #mla12 #omla You are a true reformer!OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 0:49 Signing off to get back to the mountain of portfolios. Keep the <hugs> flowing! #omlaOccupyMLA 12/10/2011 4:05 A bit more time left on International Hug an Adjunct Day! #mla12 #omla Tomorrow hugging might come off as creepy.OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 4:46 <hug> for you @the_book_girl just for that RT! Hugging making me sleepy though.OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 4:55 & as International Hug an Adjunct Day comes to a close, <hug> to you who reads these tweets closer than our students read for finals! #mla12OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 13:45 A faintly remembered dream: marking essay exams on the chivalric romance instead of evaluating portfolios #mla12OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 13:50 Students decorate their portfolio binders when they could be ornamenting their prose.OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 13:55 In my 10 years at this position, the WPA has changed either the portfolio system or the rubric 7 of the 10 years.OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 14:00 When you are not permitted to sit at the table that determines the curriculae, all decisions appear arbitrary and capricious. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 15:05 Hey, #omla compadres, big thanks for letting me run the Hug day yesterday. Now what about #omlashirts, eh? I need funds to get to #mla12!OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 15:15 Huge grading day ahead of me. Who else out there is in it? #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 15:25 Not that I'm procrastinating, but we need an #omla chant. How about "Upholding Justice, Truth, Honor, & Loyalty"? Cretien, I think :) #mla12OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 15:30 @elotroalex I'll explain this one to him. He wouldn't get it.OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 15:45 Can I say, I just love the hootsuite. The collaborative tweeting thing rocks. Okay, last tweet. Back to grading. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 15:55 Return to your grading and stop using the account for your rambling.OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 16:55 n.b., the post arrived moments ago. Received my first missive of rejection. Not particularly surprising, R1, competitive.OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 17:00 The Rejection: terse, generic, form letter for a post that was only moderately advantageous to my adjuncting. Commence recycling.OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 17:30 Sorry to hear about a rejection letter for one of #omla. Its still early. And the best is yet to come! #MLA12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/10/2011 18:15 Okay this might not be big news but I found the perfect interview suit, charcoal gray just like @professorisin suggests. Simple but stylish.OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 18:20 Its Nine West and marked down like crazy, tweed jacket, pencil skirt. Believe me this is the only nice suit Ive ever purchased.OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 18:25 It was practically impossible to find something decent that wasnt shiny with a jacket that was the right length for me in the sleeves.OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 18:30 It was perfect but of course, I cant afford this suit, so I put it on a card, a new one so I got the extra 10%. Like I need another card!OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 18:35 So now I have my occupy overalls (dont judge me -- literally the comfiest clothes I own) and my interview suit.OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 18:40 But heres the thing.. I paid the extra to have it taylored. I know. Stop. It just didnt fit right in the shoulders.OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 18:45 Now I think it was all just too much and I should really just try to call and cancel the whole order except this interviews all Ive gotOccupyMLA 12/10/2011 18:51 @professorisin No! I didnt think to do it. Ill see if I can find it online later and send you the general look.OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 19:00 RT @professorisin: @readywriting @occupymla For dress/comport. at conf. interviews: http://t.co/DLLgXhHM; For more on interviews:... http://ow.ly/7T8HqOccupyMLA 12/10/2011 19:06 @readywriting Just fees like the biggest gamble with the holidays, some new dental issues I have to have checked out, bills. Just worriedOccupyMLA 12/10/2011 19:10 RT @professorisin: @readywriting @occupymla And, On dealing with the dreaded "informal conference chat": http://t.co/OXzxwCVB http://ow.ly/7T8XXOccupyMLA 12/10/2011 19:20 Although I do not doubt this sartorial advice is useful, we shall attempt to circumscribe our future posts to #omla-related issues.OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 22:35 Intriguing. #mla12 #s745: Affecting Affect Theory.OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 23:20 Im a little concerned abt this tweet RT @jvinopal: @miriamkp @nowviskie @surlyf I guess me neither because I said ppl wouldn't hire them.OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 23:25 Whats that supposed to mean? Wouldnt hire us for standing up for ourselves and other adjuncts? Troubling.OccupyMLA 12/10/2011 23:30 Agh. That post is really bugging me again. What does she mean? Back to grading. #omlaOccupyMLA 12/11/2011 1:45 @triproftri I wasnt running the accnt, but I do remember we were getting pretty peppered with #altac comments that night. We were defensiveOccupyMLA 12/11/2011 1:50 @triproftri But your rt abt rudeness. If were going to affect change its got to be through respectful conversations. Even on Twitter.OccupyMLA 12/11/2011 4:49 Cant sleep. That stuff @jvinopal was saying has me freeked out. What did we say?OccupyMLA 12/11/2011 4:50 Unprofessional? This is twitter. Its not like I wrote every post.OccupyMLA 12/11/2011 4:52 But is she right? Is the feeling that were now untouchables because of this account? For standing up?OccupyMLA 12/11/2011 4:54 I am speaking out. THats her problem. She resents me. Well Im okay with being outcast for speaking out. #omlaOccupyMLA 12/11/2011 5:01 @stinkylulu Its not that. I finally have an interview. These other guys have nothing. Im not saying they wont but Im the one on the lineOccupyMLA 12/11/2011 5:04 And I have deleted mine. Apologies. It was a slipOccupyMLA 12/11/2011 8:00 We are still and ever The 999 Lines! Join us! #omlaOccupyMLA 12/11/2011 15:20 A student had the audacity to email a request to meet with me concerning her grade on her portfolio -- which I have not yet graded! #mla12OccupyMLA 12/11/2011 15:25 Judging from the creature on the cover of her portfolio, I assume she will have reason to complain. Savage beast labeled "Honey badger"?OccupyMLA 12/11/2011 15:30 Based on its fierce glare, something tells me the beast, with which this student clearly identifies, is an apt choice.OccupyMLA 12/11/2011 16:30 Just finished grading an epically bad personal narrative recounting being 1st generation to go to college. Utter word salad. #omlaOccupyMLA 12/11/2011 16:30 A clarification from me, one head of the 3-headed cat: this is about betterment for everyone so I am Glad one of us has an interview! #omlaOccupyMLA 12/11/2011 16:35 It may surprise some that I too was 1st in my family's American lineage to attend college. My father's collar: caerulean. #omlaOccupyMLA 12/11/2011 16:40 Nonetheless, I worked tirelessly to ensure that my essays were always rapier point to the prompt and indeed compliant with MLA format. #omlaOccupyMLA 12/11/2011 17:00 Next semester, I may just have to add Chaucer to the FYC syllabus. How would my prog. admin regard exercises in medieval style? #notgradingOccupyMLA 12/11/2011 18:55 OK. Stepping up to the #omla microphone, gonna write my share for the shared account and sharew ith you all the Model of the Cafeteria.OccupyMLA 12/11/2011 19:00 So, my gf has driven up to for our annual traditional Weekend of Grading in Bed. Pot of Sumatran coffee. Papers all over the duvet. #omlaOccupyMLA 12/11/2011 19:10 And, yes, on our Weekend of Grading in Bed we mostly grade papers. Behave! But this morning: a deep talk abt TT and non-TT dynamics. #omla

OccupyMLA 12/11/2011 19:15 My gf is way into social-psych recently. She says: All academia is just a middle-school cafeteria. Tenured control the Cool Table. #omlaOccupyMLA 12/11/2011 19:20 Cafeteria Model: from the Cool Table Tenured rule the hierarchy, keep TT craving to to sit at the Cool Table w/mixed signals #omlaOccupyMLA 12/11/2011 19:25 Cafeteria Model: Tenured don't have to pressure Contingents directly, the TT do that for them, as a way of earning the Cool Table. #omlaOccupyMLA 12/11/2011 19:30 Cafeteria Model: What the feudal hierarchy wants from Contingents is clear body language of fear and anxiety. Stomp foot, room cringes #omlaOccupyMLA 12/11/2011 19:35 Cafeteria Model: Face it, we've all managed to stay in school. The adolescent parts of us are all still alive, grappling for position. #omlaOccupyMLA 12/11/2011 19:40 So either: All academia is like a middle-school cafeteria or we're just sleep-deprived and addled from too much grading. Back to it! #omlaOccupyMLA 12/11/2011 21:40 Shout out to everyone grading in bed this weekend! Woo hoo! Hope you have company! #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/11/2011 23:50 Show of hands . . . who's still grading in bed??? We are! More coffee! #omla We are not contingent! Resolve! Our eyes are going to fall out!OccupyMLA 12/12/2011 4:13 For pity's sake let us not re-open a sciences vs. humanities rift! Just when some semblance of solidarity is our only chance. Scholars all.OccupyMLA 12/12/2011 4:19 @mrsalander @BendProf @readywriting @afrayn My contract comes through 5-10 days before start of term. Seems about average for those I knowOccupyMLA 12/12/2011 4:45 @professorisin heres a pic of my interview suit, diff size. I dont get it from the taylor till Wed, though. Excited! http://t.co/9VaQ4ehi http://ow.ly/7W3HoOccupyMLA 12/12/2011 4:48 @keethink You know how it feels when you spend out of what youre going to need, tho. Still, worth it when I walk into the interview!OccupyMLA 12/12/2011 5:49 @keethink thats what @readywriting was saying, long term investment. But this years especially tight. Thats okay. Ive got a good feeling!OccupyMLA 12/12/2011 12:30 #omla-ers: Hey, are we going to use the paperclip-on-the-collar to show omla support at the conference?OccupyMLA 12/12/2011 12:35 Yes. The other option, if memory serves, was to draw an O on the badge itself before the MLA; however, the paperclip would be more dramatic.OccupyMLA 12/12/2011 12:45 I dont want to damage my new suit, but it does have a winning collar. So lets do the paperclip.OccupyMLA 12/12/2011 12:50 Okay, make that official, to show you support #omla at the conference, please wear a paperclip on your collar. Or stand with us! #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/12/2011 14:30 Now the Student is requesting an audience with my dept. chair concerning my lackluster end comment on her penultimate paper.OccupyMLA 12/12/2011 14:35 Adjunct faculty need department chairs willing to defend them against the tyranny of student entitlement esp. on evals. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/12/2011 14:47 I know we're in Today's Modern World of Now, but still an e-mail rejection letter stings that little bit more than a paper one.OccupyMLA 12/12/2011 14:51 The e-mail rejection letters must be sent out in bulk at Sunday midnight. Gives the impression that they work all night, without stationery.OccupyMLA 12/12/2011 16:25 Im so upset. I know we agreed to limit the personal stuff but this is messed up! wtfOccupyMLA 12/12/2011 16:30 Just got an email about my #MLA12 interview. Seems they have some concerns. Might screw the whole thing up. #fmlOccupyMLA 12/12/2011 16:45 I thoght we were protected by hootsuite.OccupyMLA 12/12/2011 16:50 The school mentioned #omla at #MLA12. Now my applications undergoing a secondary review processOccupyMLA 12/12/2011 16:55 Said theyd let me know by the end of the week.OccupyMLA 12/12/2011 17:10 Be calm. We are the only ones who can hurt our chances. Resolve. #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/12/2011 17:15 You did this. Saturday night.OccupyMLA 12/12/2011 17:20 Even if someone suspected the identity of the #omla team, they would not be legally permitted to use that to impact their hiring decision.OccupyMLA 12/12/2011 22:01 Thank you for your DM notes of inquiry about our #omla member. Though matters are uncertain at the present, doubtless she will be vindicatedOccupyMLA 12/12/2011 22:15 The rest of us wait. Still no adjunct schedules? To what other purpose could you be putting your time? Oh, yes, wasting my life. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/12/2011 22:22 Using adjuncts like wads of puttie to stuff the holes in your schedule is one thing; scheduling them the week before classes, cruel. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/12/2011 22:24 Membership in a reform movement is an intangible that should be considered a foremost sign of character, not a blight! #mla12OccupyMLA 12/12/2011 22:27 @roopikarisam We are members in a movement for reform in #highered. Voices of dissent. A coalition.OccupyMLA 12/12/2011 22:32 @roopikarisam Because Hootsuite does not show users who else is logged in, at times we are not aware of who is until we see a posted tweet.OccupyMLA 12/12/2011 22:33 @roopikarisam Our connection to Occupy shall be in our voices of critique and in our occupation.OccupyMLA 12/12/2011 22:35 @philsandifer Institutions should be made aware they they too will be held accountable for any retributions to #omla members. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/12/2011 22:40 2nd rejection epistle received today. Brief form letter, handwritten note appended like margin notes, misspelled name. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/12/2011 22:45 @roopikarisam There is plenty of time for elaboration both here and at MLA. Alas, the job forecast is turning a bit grimmer than expected.OccupyMLA 12/12/2011 22:48 mla tip: Many will use #mla12 to amplify their voices. Let us use it instead to turn our attention to those without voices: adjuncts, nttOccupyMLA 12/12/2011 23:06 @roopikarisam We've had differences of opinion on how to utilize the account. That member was at the time understandably overcome.OccupyMLA 12/13/2011 0:32 MT @miriamkp: Petition urging NLRB if grad students @ private inst's have same rights 2 unionize as public http://t.co/LtKY0gQP #mla12 http://gradlaborcounts.orgOccupyMLA 12/13/2011 4:35 Had good long look at the December finances. Worse than I feared. Hundreds away from MLA travel costs. We used to hitchhike #mla12OccupyMLA 12/13/2011 13:00 Good morning #mla12 #omla. Sorry, but no one's responding to my emails, bc, or anything. Trying to figure out what I missed.OccupyMLA 12/13/2011 13:05 Pls. email me what's going on with your interview. Is it still on? Did they really figure out who you are? What about the rest of us?OccupyMLA 12/13/2011 14:45 The money sitch is a little sketchy for Seattle. This is the prob: MLA is a hub but it's pay-to-play -- unless you have travel funds. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/13/2011 14:55 @bendprof @triproftri Hey, why not change the #mla12 #funrun to a "fund run": run for #mla13 travel $ for adjuncts, NTT, grads etc.?OccupyMLA 12/13/2011 15:05 @bendprof @danconnell @triproftri Seriously, why run just to run? $5 a head & you could help an important cause: access to #mla13 or #mla12OccupyMLA 12/13/2011 15:15 Don't people run for a cause all the time? Make the #funrun more than just about hanging out! Try a #fundrun at #mla12 to benefit #mla13OccupyMLA 12/13/2011 15:49 @bendprof Yeah, but why not raise more? It's really rough out there for some of us. Come on, don't just run for yourselves! #mla12 #fundrunOccupyMLA 12/13/2011 15:58 @bendprof That's awesome and those runners are representing the MLA spirit -- why not make it a display of good will! Come on, #mla12!OccupyMLA 12/13/2011 16:55 Rejections notices III & IV arrived today. If you have received any, please add them to my bestiarium. #mlament #mla12OccupyMLA 12/13/2011 16:56 @academicdave Is there a link for said wiki?OccupyMLA 12/13/2011 17:05 Rejection the third: a brief email form letter addressed merely to "list2" #mlament #mla12OccupyMLA 12/13/2011 17:09 @johnmjones Thank you. I shall take it impersonally! #mla12OccupyMLA 12/13/2011 17:10 @meg_stewart Your finances appear to be in a similar status to our own. We wish you glad tidings this season.OccupyMLA 12/13/2011 17:15 #mlament Rejection the IV: Included a long handwritten note! Put by mistake in my colleague's mailbox, returned opened with a stickynote: :(OccupyMLA 12/13/2011 17:40 Hey, suggestion in DM that we put a band-aid on our collar beside the #omla paperclip to say we care about adjunct health care. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/13/2011 17:45 After yesterday's news, we should scuttle the paperclip-on-the-collar as recognition sign for #omla. Jeopardizes others n'est-ce pas? #mla12OccupyMLA 12/13/2011 17:55 I saw about her interview. How'd they figure out who she is? We never use our names or any kind of id.OccupyMLA 12/13/2011 18:05 It was an accident. Deleted almost immediately.OccupyMLA 12/13/2011 18:10 I have done nothing untoward. Per apologia, she had already tweeted my name, had told a blogger sensitive information. #bcOccupyMLA 12/13/2011 18:15 But that wasn't her. That was me. I thought it was okay. You were already DMing him. Thought he was on our side.OccupyMLA 12/13/2011 20:18 Really? RT @mlaconvention:Spots are still available for sustainable-seafood class and wine pairing at #mla12! http://t.co/GxI8ub5P? http://mla.org/cultural_excurOccupyMLA 12/13/2011 20:30 In debt & vulnerable to the whims of advisers and programs, for grad students "support' is a euphemism for exploit! #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/13/2011 21:02 MT @triproftri: #mla12 #fundrun 7am on Saturday 1/7: http://t.co/Jwu41OKr Who's in? #omla http://bit.ly/uYiKLWOccupyMLA 12/13/2011 21:20 Read: We are not contingent: an adjunct manifesto http://t.co/NF0iKCV3 #mla12 #omla http://ow.ly/7Xud2OccupyMLA 12/14/2011 13:05 For as many classes as adjuncts teach across #highered, its amazing how little voice or choice we have! Join us #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/14/2011 13:15 Sounds like #mla12 is not up to do a #fundrun. Woulda thought they'd go for that. Tis the season and all, eh?OccupyMLA 12/14/2011 13:55 Let us not promote or permit the exploitation of a perpetual adjunct class without reliable salary, benefits, employment! #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/14/2011 14:05 Rejection Letter V arrived via email. Worst blow yet. The job for which I had prepared my syllabus for a Chr?tien seminar. #mla12 #mlamentOccupyMLA 12/14/2011 14:15 Not only was I denied but a mole tells me they're cutting off the medieval line, calling a failed search, & switiching it to a DH job #mla12OccupyMLA 12/14/2011 14:30 Outrageous! I am perfectly qualified to teach #DH or medieval lit with DH. I use Twitter, Hootsuite, and Zotero with WorldcatOccupyMLA 12/14/2011 16:45 It mustve been something abt my mom. raised me by herself, went to school when my brother and I were kids, earned an RN. Worked all the timeOccupyMLA 12/14/2011 16:55 Taught me its important to fight for yourself, for others. Fought Drs., hospitals, admins, still does. Guess thats where I got it.OccupyMLA 12/14/2011 17:00 She never taught me you might get caught up with screw ups. Anyway, guess thats why I had to come back, even if I lose the interview.OccupyMLA 12/14/2011 17:10 When I got that email, I was this close (fingers inches apart) to hanging up the whole #omla bit. Leave it to the boys.OccupyMLA 12/14/2011 17:15 Sorrry I cant let this thing go down without a fight. Even if the others go and alienate all of #MLA12 with their funruns and antics.OccupyMLA 12/14/2011 17:25 But I just got a call that my interview suit is ready. Cant bring myself to pick it up.OccupyMLA 12/15/2011 4:25 Rejection the VI: Nothing remarkable except was the same CC to which I applied upon earning my PhD. 10 yrs later, the record skips. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/15/2011 4:28 Comforting to know the team has not dissolved despite our setbacks, perceived slights. I look forward to our triumphant arrival in Seattle.OccupyMLA 12/15/2011 4:35 Perhaps these rejections have mellowed or tempered me. I must say, I rather like this design for the #omlashirts http://t.co/Ebzfzfd2 #mla12 http://ow.ly/i/meJCOccupyMLA 12/15/2011 4:40 I gaze at Twitter feeds in Hootsuite from the literati & digerati, like scrolls of ancient runes of a forgotten kingdom in the land of snarkOccupyMLA 12/15/2011 4:43 & it is difficult not to wonder if the rejections do not stem from a fundamental difference between me and this rising band of clerks.OccupyMLA 12/15/2011 4:50 #mla12 tip: Ride the zeitgeist like the valkyrjur-- not as though riding a valkyrja but as the valkyrjur ride their steeds aflight!OccupyMLA 12/15/2011 5:42 Adjunct faculty should be permitted (and encouraged) to teach courses in their areas of expertise! Fear not, we will still teach FYC! #omlaOccupyMLA 12/15/2011 12:05 I cant take it. My mollars are killing me now. What do you use? Ibuprofen? Tylenol? Chainsaw? #fmlOccupyMLA 12/15/2011 12:30 You think we adjuncts want your jobs, but what really need is healthcare! # #highered #unjust #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/15/2011 13:45 #mla12 #fundrun Runners! Make this run a sign of support for adjuncts & NTT. $5 a head for travel support or membership cost relief!OccupyMLA 12/15/2011 15:00 If adjuncts make up more than 1/2 your faculty, shouldn't we have more than 1/2 of the seats on the governing bodies? #omlaOccupyMLA 12/15/2011 15:10 Oh, and by the way, adjuncts ARE faculty. #omlaOccupyMLA 12/15/2011 16:01 Apparently, the adjunct schedules were assigned 2 weeks ago. One of us was not offered courses for the first time in 19 semesters. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/15/2011 16:15 WTF?OccupyMLA 12/15/2011 16:20 Thats terrible. Im sure it was just a mixup. Your students LOVE you. #omlaOccupyMLA 12/15/2011 16:31 I had supposedt it was merely delayed. Thought they would get to me later, and then later, and then later. Nothing.OccupyMLA 12/15/2011 16:40 No "mixup". Fiscal crisis, says the chair. Not enough students enrolling. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/15/2011 16:45 bc? #omla #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/15/2011 16:55 No. It is appropriate that #omla hear what has happened to me. I am comfortable with the circulation of my private agon #mla12OccupyMLA 12/15/2011 17:05 For, this Twitter circle (@rgfeal incl) has awarded me more significance than I evr received from my institution aside from my pupils #mla12OccupyMLA 12/15/2011 17:15 Even when they were assaulting me, ganging up, deriding me, sniping & snarking, at least they responded, unlike my purported colleagues.OccupyMLA 12/15/2011 17:25 Occupy MLA has given me a measure of purpose and a place in the public agora. #mla12 Seattle will moreso. #omlaOccupyMLA 12/15/2011 17:30 Even so, I have not heard back on all my applications yet. I have every reason to expect a positive response within the week. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/15/2011 18:00 Hey are you serious. I just read. Did it have something to do with that student complaint? Should we be talking about this here?OccupyMLA 12/15/2011 18:15 I have nothing to hide. Who knows, someone on one of the committees might be perusing these lines now. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/15/2011 18:25 Does that mean we should start using our names?OccupyMLA 12/15/2011 18:35 I dont think thats what he means. He means it might make cmtes look at all their candidates more carefully, right?OccupyMLA 12/15/2011 18:50 Further revealing our identities would not be prudent. One of us has a practically definite interview. For now, we shall remain anonymous.OccupyMLA 12/15/2011 19:00 Okay, but did that tweet last night mean that you want to do #omlashirts after all? We could still do the paperclip on the collar, too!OccupyMLA 12/15/2011 21:30 To put it all in perspective: Biochem major, great essayist, tells me he switched majors to Lit bcs of my class! HE tells ME: do what u luv!OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 6:04 Assigned Reading: A Circus of Bad Faith Garnished with Incivility by @JohnACaseyJr #mla12 http://t.co/gwQsOf6C http://ow.ly/81bSr

OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 12:15 @cantavestrella Its working, mostly. thank you. Still quite a bit of t hrobbing but manageable.OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 12:25 @readywriting This has been the story of this past week for me! Bad Female Academic: Emotional Wreck http://t.co/atqZ1odw http://ow.ly/81cU0OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 13:05 Lit. PhDs wrack up twice as much debt as those in science and engineering, and we don't even need particle accelerators. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 14:05 Just got a note about my #MLA12 interview. Its off.OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 14:15 shouldve seen this coming, folks tweeting they wouldnt hire me, people were bound to figure out who we were. Shouldve expected it.OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 14:17 @readywriting thank you, Lee, guess it wasnt meant to be.OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 14:25 Guess being a part of #omla is one of those intangibles. Well, who needs a job that doesnt support a little rabble rousing, rt?OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 14:37 @academicdave just mine. they didnt mention omla again by name but they mentioned online activities.OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 15:01 We gravely regret any harm we have brought our members in the process of launching our protest via #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 15:10 In every contest, there are casualties; nonetheless, we did not anticipate the levels of enmity that our resistance would earn us.OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 15:15 The many calls for us to reveal our identities, the suggestions that we would be better served in the light, have proven to be ploys.OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 15:20 To all those who seek to speak out on these public channels, be ware. Your tweets are being monitored by friends & foes alike. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 15:30 Even when they do not "follow" you, they are tracing the footsteps of your every tweet, waiting for a moment to use it against you. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 15:35 Its all right. It was my choice. I am not ashamed. My name is out there. Fine. This is an important cause.OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 15:40 @ProfessorIsIn The fault was mine. I tweeted her name in a moment of anger. Believed I had delteted it quickly enough.Most regretable.OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 15:45 No search committee should pillage your dream merely because you associate yourself with a movement, no matter how faulty.OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 15:55 Hey, I have no regrets. Were the 999 lines! Were #omla!OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 16:05 If ever there was a time to use apostrophes, that was it. Surely, your phone has buttons for that sort of thing. No auto-correct?OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 16:07 @academicdave thanks, that gave me a smile.OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 16:45 You should really go retrieve that suit of yours. You're going to need it. You shall not protest in overalls.OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 16:57 @digiwonk yes!!!OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 17:00 My overalls are soooooo comfy. You have know idea!OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 20:00 TT faculty needed to solve a problem. They created a magical solution that saved money and took burdensome courses away: adjuncts! #mla12OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 20:25 #mla12 #s194 #omla Need tips on how to protect oneself when speaking out.OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 21:15 "TT faculty are not really an enemy, just a competitor on a very unlevel playing field." Be advocates not competitors! http://t.co/ZKLF6zF4 http://ow.ly/819XvOccupyMLA 12/16/2011 21:20 No, TT not enemies. Perhaps just forgetful. Looking ever up the ladder instead of back down. We genuinely want better/best for all. #omlaOccupyMLA 12/16/2011 22:15 Is it not time for adjuncts at last to unionize? @NewFacMajority @AdjunctNation? #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/16/2011 23:30 Hey, I know I'm late to the funeral but how could any school drop a candidate for supporting something like #omla? We're the good guys!OccupyMLA 12/17/2011 2:15 Get this: someone wants me to "talk" at #mla12 about my "MacPherson and ancient Scots ballads" (sic) work! But it's NOT an interviewOccupyMLA 12/17/2011 12:10 The occupy #mla12 encampment/installation/whatever needs to be Positive! Keep our sense of humor, offer solutions, not just gripe #omlaOccupyMLA 12/17/2011 12:15 We're writers, rt? So our signage should be smart, witty. We need compendium of the best slogans. "We are not contingent," etc. Suggestions?OccupyMLA 12/17/2011 14:10 Oh to be #mla12 #165? Imagine my opening quote from Aquinas, my allusion to the Wyves Tale, joke about teaching Sir Gawain to Green WritersOccupyMLA 12/17/2011 14:30 The Abelisaurus, glancing up from its bloody meal toward the massive incoming meteor, roared might'ly to the skies: TENURE. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/17/2011 15:50 Coming to terms with the realization, accepting the fact that I have not been called in for any interviews. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/17/2011 16:00 Ordina l'uomo, e dio dispone.OccupyMLA 12/17/2011 16:15 Given recent events, wondering if #omla is serving any of our interests. We speak out, we pay the price. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/17/2011 16:23 @savasavasava I believe this would be the moment to offer you a <hug>.OccupyMLA 12/17/2011 16:25 Furthermore, since I was not offered courses to teach next semester, no contract, financing this operation has taken on an ashen hue. #omlaOccupyMLA 12/17/2011 16:35 Many believe that our nomenclature #omla signals we are protesting against #mla12. Is not the naming convention: activity-location?OccupyMLA 12/17/2011 16:45 Perhaps the occupation is not an activity but a status in question. Our very "occupation." Such a protest would not require phys occupationOccupyMLA 12/17/2011 16:55 Thus, I am considering alternatives. A virtual protest. Or something more dramatic. #mla12 #bcOccupyMLA 12/17/2011 18:30 little hard to get up today. chill, overcast, mollar ache. Couldnt shake the fog even w coffee. Ended up back in bed. Need to grade.OccupyMLA 12/17/2011 19:35 For a dose of reality, follow this link! Campaign for the Future of Higher Education http://t.co/Zvo27zmQ #mla12 http://futureofhighered.org/index_HEUK.htmlOccupyMLA 12/17/2011 20:05 Rejection letter the final. Nothing momentous. An average missive.OccupyMLA 12/18/2011 0:45 Now I know what it's like to be shut out by really good goal-keeping With yesterday's cancellation our little #omla team is 0-for on appli'sOccupyMLA 12/18/2011 0:50 Every job has its tortures, but constant CV self-sales dance of fear-n-hope is NTT living. Restaurant gig is looking better & better. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/18/2011 4:55 Finals plus job hunt is depressing. Even in college applications you're rewarded for "community activities." But now: don't rock the boat.OccupyMLA 12/18/2011 5:00 & the push to specialze does'nt pan out either. One of my rejections basically said nobody cares abt Scottish Enlightenment Sorry Im dpressdOccupyMLA 12/18/2011 5:10 Sorry. I know. Don't drink and Tweet! I'm Scots studies, though! We have the primo liquid consolation. Occupy #mla12! Drown sorrow!OccupyMLA 12/18/2011 5:30 Last thing I'll say. (I know: 'shut up!') W/a good restaurant job I culd live in same town as my gf. Shout out NTT longdistnace relatinshps!OccupyMLA 12/18/2011 17:15 Over the past several days, we have been debating via bc my proposal to call off the physical occupation of #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/18/2011 17:20 The low response rate, our own lack of funds to travel to the conference, recent events in our personal lives suggest cutting losses #mla12OccupyMLA 12/18/2011 17:30 For those of you who tweet "I knew it," I commend your lack of confidence in our abilities as much more accurate, apparently. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/18/2011 17:45 Our occupation then shall be parallel to our employment, liminal. Uncertain of details, though clearly Twitter will cont. to play a partOccupyMLA 12/18/2011 17:55 #mla12 has made Twitter so central to its conference that it only makes sense to employ that as our staging ground.OccupyMLA 12/18/2011 18:50 Tell every grad student & adjunct you know: Be icily pragmatic! The TT job is a fairy tale for most, like pay equity #omla #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/18/2011 19:00 Need to make a list of new goals for my academic future, brutally realistic goals, goals that dont require a massive retirement of tenureds.OccupyMLA 12/18/2011 19:15 Whered I evr get the delusional dream of a TT job, and why is my self-worth attached to it? Was it the diss. process? Undergrad? #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/18/2011 20:30 @jendrouin i dont want to say the name of the dept. I hold the cmte members in high esteem still. One edits a key journal in my field.OccupyMLA 12/18/2011 21:20 head=brick-slammed, almost fell back asleep finaly for a nap just when gf called. They want me to delete my tweets from last night. #f-thatOccupyMLA 12/19/2011 4:25 What is #omla without the o? A bitter twitter. What's an ongoing stream of tweeted complaints if not just a pest? This sucks. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/19/2011 4:28 Backchannel!OccupyMLA 12/19/2011 4:30 No. I'm here to hold someone accountable. How can we do that if they don't have face our faces at #mla12?OccupyMLA 12/19/2011 4:32 You are embarrassing yourself & #omla. When she tweets about US being unprofessional, she is referring to YOU. Pls. #bcOccupyMLA 12/19/2011 4:34 Oh, ok. You never liked me, my ideas, #omlashirts, Hug an Adjunct Day. Lighten up! it's not a dissertation, it's twitter!OccupyMLA 12/19/2011 4:37 Our followers do not need to hear about your personal life, assinine drunken tweets, your gf. A shame. We are a movement.OccupyMLA 12/19/2011 4:38 So what? gonna tweet my name?OccupyMLA 12/19/2011 4:40 YOU already have, yours AND mine. You mindlessly trust anyone who sends us a DM. You are just as much to blame as I.OccupyMLA 12/19/2011 4:43 What r we doing this for? You promised us we were gonna change things. You said we'd get jobs, interviews, Itrusted you. Look what hapenedOccupyMLA 12/19/2011 4:45 Pls utilize the bc! I was not lying to you. What jobs? I thought this would help, but it does not help #omla to show our feuds in public.OccupyMLA 12/19/2011 13:20 Following our decision to cancel the physical occupation of #mla12, we are now seriously considering closing the @occupymla account.OccupyMLA 12/19/2011 13:30 Such a decision would result from our failure to employ this collective Twitter account coherently & from divergent visions for #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/19/2011 13:40 It is also a direct result of the exposure of our members' identities, an exposure that is being perpetuated by #mla12 itself.OccupyMLA 12/19/2011 13:50 Nonetheless, we ourselves have been at fault for exposing each other through indiscretion & lapses in decorum. #omlaOccupyMLA 12/19/2011 14:00 Those who wish to rush to judge our tweets, however, should first look into their own feeds. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/19/2011 14:10 In retrospect, the use of Hootsuite made our simultaneous tweeting more muddled than we had anticipated. Perhaps ProfHacks will commentOccupyMLA 12/19/2011 14:15 Hey, we haven't decided for sure, yet, rt? We're just raising the possibility. #bcOccupyMLA 12/19/2011 14:30 Yes, of course. We are merely raising the possibility for discussion, for tweetback if you will.Still many days before #mla12. Suggestions?OccupyMLA 12/19/2011 18:05 The thought of closing the #omla account feels strangely good to me like a cool bath after a workout thats left you bruised, beaten.OccupyMLA 12/19/2011 18:15 Made a new list for myself late last night. Things I could achieve that wouldnt be settling. Jobs dreams. A TT job wasnt on the list.OccupyMLA 12/19/2011 18:25 But its gotta have benefits, living wage, and the golden ticket: stimulation. Something that challenges me. Thats why I did the phd #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/19/2011 18:35 Spent some time working in a uni writing center. Could go back, maybe, or maybe private HS, or library. My aunt loves her lib. job.OccupyMLA 12/19/2011 22:05 It has been resolved: we intend to cease posting from the group @occupymla twitter account. Commencing final posts. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/20/2011 1:30 We call upon all of you to use #omla at #mla12 and whenever you wish to stand up for adjuncts, NTT, grad. students, the voicelessOccupyMLA 12/20/2011 4:30 Downs& updates! I got an interview. Pulled the trigger on a job possibility near my gf, same city. But it is a restaurant gig. Stoked!OccupyMLA 12/20/2011 4:35 They need a prep with pan-asian exper & also PR help. Just talked w them. They have an aggressive bus plan despite econ. & perf. location!OccupyMLA 12/20/2011 4:40 The owner spent 50 minutes on phone with me. We bonded. High concept, local growers, idealistic, benefits! Why not? Plus I get to write!OccupyMLA 12/20/2011 4:45 We have the same taste in herbs and adverbs. :) I'm not saying I'll say yes... but worth a trip down to see my sweetie. #luvyouOccupyMLA 12/20/2011 4:55 We're not contingent! (But life is: taking me another direction, away from #mla12) I'll write my Scots epic book during breaks. Publishers?OccupyMLA 12/20/2011 5:05 Give em hell on health care! It's why I'm considering bailing on academe! We are not contingent! #omla forever! DM-haters: #kizzitOccupyMLA 12/20/2011 13:30 Since CHE brought us so many readers, we should present CliffsNotes. First #omla is a shared Twitter account tweeted by 150+ members #mla12OccupyMLA 12/20/2011 13:40 In case you have not heard, the time has come for us to close down @occupymla. This account has served us both well & ill (cf. our archives)OccupyMLA 12/20/2011 13:50 A principle cause for closing the accnt: a blogger deceived us into naming one of our own who then sadly lost her job interview at #mla12OccupyMLA 12/20/2011 14:00 In our absence, there are many whom you should follow. They are truly invested in real reform & have helped us begin this dialogue #mla12OccupyMLA 12/20/2011 14:10 Whom to follow? @readywriting @JohnACaseyJr But also: @GeorgeOnline @triproftri @academicdave @nowviskie tho we sparred at times+ #mla12OccupyMLA 12/20/2011 14:20 Voices for change: @mrsalander @bendprof @professorisin @the_book_girl @briancroxall & indeed nobles @rgfeal @kfitz @michaelberube1 #mla12OccupyMLA 12/20/2011 14:25 <hugs> @savasavasava @digiwonk @cantavestrella @meg_stewart @profology @philsandifer @ptpeterpan @keethink @literarychica @shakespeareprofOccupyMLA 12/20/2011 14:30 Indeed none have been more brave than @readywriting & @JohnACaseyJr who have held their ground in the face of the war engines. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/20/2011 14:45 Follow the reform movements: @NewFacMajority @AdjunctNation @HigherEdPIRG #ff Join them! #mla12 #omla http://t.co/LFHYm1Rx http://adjunctmanifesto.tumblr.com/OccupyMLA 12/20/2011 15:01 We must disperse shortly. May all who wish to raise a tweet of critique against this inequitable system, use #omla in our name. #mla12OccupyMLA 12/20/2011 16:50 There is a brief passage I keep tucked in my moleskine. Perhaps those who carry on #omla's legacy will thrum to it! #mla12

OccupyMLA 12/20/2011 17:01OccupyMLA 12/20/2011 17:05 Si j'avais la voie libre,/ Et si ces six adversaires me permettaient/ De passer sans r?sistance,/ O? serait mon m?rite? #mla12OccupyMLA 12/20/2011 17:30 Hey, been thinking: Since we got all these new readers from the Chron & are bound 2 have countless more, why shut down? http://t.co/A8Vv9CY6 http://ow.ly/84Oq6OccupyMLA 12/20/2011 18:00 Well Im personally grateful to all of you who offered me so much emotional support during my trials. Ill miss your friendship. <hugs> #mla12OccupyMLA 12/20/2011 18:10 someday I hope to meet you in person, though after what happened, its doubtful ill have the courage to tell you who I am. #omlaOccupyMLA 12/20/2011 18:30 Hey, what if we kept the accountant open just thru #mla12? Look: we got anothr #omlashirts entry last night! http://t.co/R96rFa78 #dontgetit http://ow.ly/i/nUwvOccupyMLA 12/20/2011 18:50 So after whats happened to me, the interview and all, I hope that in the new year you get what you want, what you really want + #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/20/2011 18:55 ?...Lord knows it would be the first time...? #mla12

Que Dieu jamais ne me pardonne,/ Si l'orgueil me fait parler/ Quand je dis pr?f?rer p?rir/Honorablement ? vivre honteusement.+ #mla12

OccupyMLA 12/20/2011 19:05 Hey, stop it! We're NOT wrapping up. Come on! You saw what they tweeted. Pls. don't worry #mla12 we'll be around a long time!OccupyMLA 12/20/2011 19:15 Another passage: ...As long as they preserve harmony at home, and keep their institutions healthy... #mla12 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/20/2011 19:30 rt, and dont forget: If we shadows have offended... #MLA12OccupyMLA 12/20/2011 19:45 MT @dystopiandream: Life is a message tweeted in the dark. #omla #mla12OccupyMLA 12/20/2011 20:00 Are we really not going to use the account anymore? What are you going to do? Change the passwords?+ #omla #mla12ChangerCharles 8/17/2012 20:13 I suppose it is time to return to this foul medium to see if it can accomplish real change.ChangerCharles 8/22/2012 3:56 Again a semester looms with job prospects nary a one...ChangerCharles 8/23/2012 18:33 Happened upon an advert for an online institution of higher ed and on a whim, fired my resumer cannon at her sails!ChangerCharles 8/23/2012 20:46 The fareflyer Kayak is of Beelzebub.ChangerCharles 8/24/2012 15:45 Zounds! Zooks! Received an electronic missive from the sailing Uni offering me a position, though perhaps it is spam...Comphaze 8/24/2012 16:15 yuk it feels so weird to be back hereComphaze 8/24/2012 16:16 but its like a morbid obsession that draws me back, and a little hope+Comphaze 8/24/2012 16:35 that this time things could be better.Comphaze 8/24/2012 16:46 there is something so comforting about making sure all my syllabi our in tidy stacks. I cant explain it.Comphaze 8/24/2012 16:47 ive even made up some new prompts and activieties that im so excited about. This year will be different!Comphaze 8/24/2012 17:08 yes, theres something about stacking up the handouts, thinking about what ill say when I hand them out...cozyComphaze 8/24/2012 17:15 love that theres this cool breeze blowing thru the copyroom blinds, looking out at the parking lot, watching faculty arrive, squeaky cleanComphaze 8/24/2012 17:26 hope the students are ready. time to go set up the writing center with a few more decorations, though what it really needs are rat traps!Comphaze 8/27/2012 4:40 RT @JudyArzt: A List of Awesome 10 New Web Tools for Educators http://t.co/A4QfHnD3 #edchat http://buff.ly/MUTYfOComphaze 8/27/2012 4:41 what is it about course planning that sets my mind at ease, looking at those tidy columns of weeks, deadlines...?Comphaze 8/27/2012 4:41 RT @LindaAragoni: Stacks of books everywhere and nothing to read. Wound up rereading "Grammar and the Teaching of Writing."Comphaze 8/27/2012 6:25 RT @LindaAragoni: ?run-together? is more helpful #grammar error term for students than #run-on or #fused sentence http://t.co/Boui5rCT http://bit.ly/iLkHYComphaze 8/27/2012 6:27 Saw the one Ill call prof darcy this week in the office. Looks like hes going casual for the first week of class but he can pull it offComphaze 8/27/2012 6:28 okay so maybe the allusions too obvious but he fits P&P to a T. #profdarcyChangerCharles 8/27/2012 15:57 Today I will be informed of my teaching duties at a well known online uni. I believe I could entertain an offer of tenure in cyberspace!ChangerCharles 8/27/2012 16:04 So much of last year's venture was instigated by my ill humours at my current condition. Signs indicate possibility thus annum & so regret.ChangerCharles 8/27/2012 16:07 Now if only I could so easily restore the other pieces of my life, like acidic pages of an old tome, crumbled into dust.ChangerCharles 8/27/2012 16:44 RT @chronicle: Adjuncts' working conditions DO affect student learning: http://t.co/rp5Ayejp http://chroni.cl/RGKkjNChangerCharles 8/27/2012 20:25 Meeting with a Dean at the online uni via Skype! My, how they roll out the red carpet of wireless decorum!ChangerCharles 8/28/2012 16:09 My Skype interview with the Dean was somewhat less than satisfactory.ChangerCharles 8/28/2012 16:10 It appears that I will have some employ for the 2012-13 school year with the aforementioned online institution of higher education.ChangerCharles 8/28/2012 16:13 However, rather than an opportunity to teach my beloved topic of Medieval Literature (or Quite Early Modern, as I call it) &ChangerCharles 8/28/2012 16:17 or, even, lecturing about composition to first-year pupils, I will instead be thrust into the dungeon of marking papers, a virtual serf &ChangerCharles 8/28/2012 16:29 I will be primarily marking the grammatical errors on papers submitted for a course in which another professor delivers video lectures...Comphaze 8/28/2012 17:42 RT @LindaAragoni: 5 tips for using Bloom's #taxonomy for teaching writing http://t.co/UpzOwIYT http://bit.ly/8rAqOzChangerCharles 8/28/2012 19:50 Marking papers is not such an intolerable activity; it is a profound means of instruction and I am eager for the challenge!ChangerCharles 8/29/2012 16:03 Today, I commence my life's work as a professional grader. I have prepared several handouts detailing my grading philosophy to circulate.ChangerCharles 8/30/2012 0:41 RT @Medievalists: ARTICLES: The Elder Edda Revisited: Past and Present Performances of the Icelandic Eddic Poems http://t.co/gcL9czkU #Eddas http://ow.ly/djQ73ChangerCharles 8/30/2012 4:19 Comma Splices? Ha! Fool's work for my rapier electronic quill!ChangerCharles 8/30/2012 7:16 Sometimes I wonder in the interstice between the lee and the morrow what happened to my comrades in arms...Comphaze 8/30/2012 16:16 Saw #profdarcy today in passing, caught me off guard, I mumbled something about seeing his class listings. What am I 15?ChangerCharles 8/31/2012 8:33 RT @Medievalists: ARTICLES: Sir Walter Scott and Eyrbyggja Saga http://t.co/geN6CL6A #Sagas http://ow.ly/dj7FRChangerCharles 8/31/2012 8:36 RT @LindseyHerin: Fuck you, Chaucer.Comphaze 9/2/2012 3:57 A year ago, I had my heart set on teaching a lit. survey. But tonight Im playing with a comp rubric & my heart is elsewhereChangerCharles 9/2/2012 3:59 RT @Medievalists: Video: The Lost Leprosy Hospitals Of London: Leprosia http://t.co/bAIUB82h http://bit.ly/T7gMtBChangerCharles 9/2/2012 4:03 RT @daniel_lende: Two camps on adjuncts? No, only one - "a commitment to ending precarious intellectual labour" http://t.co/qaMXHd6N http://savageminds.org/2012/08/31/dear-aaa-sink-or-swim/ChangerCharles 9/2/2012 4:29 Perhaps this year, my Twittering will tweet me into the mead hall of medievalists!Comphaze 9/2/2012 4:38 RT @racheledits: The apostrophe 's'. We need more of them. Here's a good vid! http://t.co/tdN9Jvu6 http://www.wikihow.com/Use-ApostrophesComphaze 9/2/2012 4:39 I LOVE how many great grammar resources come across twitter. People are SOO generous. Its soo different from my experience last year.ChangerCharles 9/2/2012 5:04 Well, well, well, what do we have here? Could it be? Surely, one must wonder...ChangerCharles 9/2/2012 16:18 Sunday mid-morning dream, I was answer to Will Short's puzzle, clue: noble scholar of Cretien, Chaucerian champion, prolific profChangerCharles 9/2/2012 16:36 In place of sweetest dream, a gbyte of error-bitten prose, I must markup (or markdown) for another prof's online course!ChangerCharles 9/3/2012 3:23 RT @JonathanHsy: ZOMG astrolabe cufflinks! [also available in gold] http://t.co/zgtG5PBj http://1001-inventions.hostedbyamazon.co.uk/1001-Inventions-Astrolabe-Cufflinks-Bronze/dp/B0081PNXK0ChangerCharles 9/3/2012 3:23 Sorting through Hazels can be more challenging than one might assume!ChangerCharles 9/3/2012 3:24 RT @OccupAnthro: "The AAA post suggests we represent two ?camps,? but we share only one: a commitment to ending precarious... http://t.c ...ChangerCharles 9/4/2012 18:43 @monarchyconf @greg_jenner @MauroUrbano @Tunnelbreeze @partagedusavoir Warm regards returning right back!ChangerCharles 9/4/2012 19:03 RT @SocMedArch: 7. Visit Cosemeston Medieval Village @CosmestonArch . Historical and beautiful! http://t.co/7n1G510j #whenatSMA12 http://bit.ly/TWj4cIChangerCharles 9/4/2012 19:17 RT @chronicle: A new study on the counterproductive effects of contingent labor: http://t.co/7zYEuFPj http://chroni.cl/NazNKMChangerCharles 9/4/2012 19:18 RT @UOPX: Do you dread getting feedback? @FastCompany has tips for overcoming your feedback fears: http://t.co/cvgt3ghO http://uof.ph/2a1ChangerCharles 9/5/2012 15:20 RT @MedievalAcademy: Exposition ?The art of devotion in the Middle Ages?: Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 28.VIII ? 11.XI.2012... ...ChangerCharles 9/6/2012 2:45 RT @MancMedSoc: New blog post: Call for Submissions: Monsters and the Monstrous Journal: http://t.co/6bwuCD3t http://bit.ly/NSDLn2ChangerCharles 9/6/2012 2:49 RT @MedievalistProb: Typing "Aethelred" for 8 straight pages instead of "Aethelbert". #medievalistproblemsChangerCharles 9/6/2012 2:50 RT @MancMedSoc: New blog post: CFP: Sensing the Sacred: Religion and the Senses, 1300-1800: http://t.co/XohcbiSO #conference #york http://bit.ly/NSFTeFChangerCharles 9/6/2012 2:50 RT @MedievalistProb: Lost my mind, mentally serenading this chapter I'm writing: "gonna take a lot to drag me away from you..." #toto #m ...ChangerCharles 9/6/2012 2:51 RT @SarahEBond: Still under construction, here's my #Roman history timeline for @Sunoikisis. It will extend to the 15th century soon. ht ...ChangerCharles 9/6/2012 2:53 @Hazel_G23 is it you? Have I finally found you on the Twitternet? After almost a year?Comphaze 9/6/2012 2:58 RT @LindaAragoni: #strategy for teaching students to create #researchpaper# #topic ideas in any discipline http://t.co/KkBNjTB0 http://bit.ly/bCPoDOChangerCharles 9/6/2012 3:17 @Hazel_G23 Apologies, I seem to have the wrong Tweeter. I am sorry to have disrupted your feed....Comphaze 9/6/2012 3:20 Funny how much difference a year makes. Sometimes I have to laugh. Were we really going to do it anyway? I mean, its crazy looking backComphaze 9/6/2012 3:40 My lifes changed so much since--for the better! Ive got a pt job that I like & a much more realistic sense of whats possible with a PhDComphaze 9/6/2012 3:50 And what were we thinking anyway? It was just a conference. Ridiculous.ChangerCharles 9/6/2012 4:01 I was not sure at first, but now my suspicions are strong. Is it really you @CompHaze?Comphaze 9/6/2012 4:10 @ChangerCharles I dont know what you mean.ChangerCharles 9/6/2012 4:15 @CompHaze Come, come, your lack of apostrophes reveals you. And what a clever handle.Comphaze 9/6/2012 4:20 @ChangerCharles I believe you have me mistaken for someone else. Its an easy thing over Twitter, easy to make this kind of mistake.ChangerCharles 9/6/2012 4:25 @CompHaze, the more you type, the less I believe I am mistaken. Please, do not play coy with an old friend.Comphaze 9/6/2012 4:30 @ChangerCharles Do I know you? Where do I know you from?ChangerCharles 9/6/2012 4:35 Well, @CompHaze, Apparently, you do not. My sincerest apologies. Good Tweeting to you.Comphaze 9/6/2012 5:15 That was creepy. Twitter is a strange place! #getmeouttahereChangerCharles 9/6/2012 5:51 Scattered to the 4 winds are last year's bringers of change, no trampled hashtags retweet their memory...ChangerCharles 9/6/2012 6:09 Nevertheless, you just as easily might being tweeting under a different name, given all that transpired...ChangerCharles 9/7/2012 6:40 RT @Medievalists: Castle for Sale: Ballyfinboy Castle, Ireland http://t.co/ZkxeTxUs #castles #Ireland #medieval http://bit.ly/Tsy6cHChangerCharles 9/7/2012 7:59 After days of reading your tweets and retweets about Obama and , I have determined you are not the Hazel I seek. #unfollow!ChangerCharles 9/7/2012 8:20 RT @magog83: On this day in 1533, the future Queen Elizabeth I was born to Anne Boleyn at the Palace of Greenwich :)ChangerCharles 9/8/2012 3:42 RT @Medievalists: Article: Of Milk and Blood: Innocent III and the Jews, revisited http://t.co/8T67XPb3 http://bit.ly/TxoY6HChangerCharles 9/8/2012 3:42 RT @TheOrdsallGhost: Busy day for visitors here - tours for @heritageopenday and the ghost of a girl from 1670s was spotted in the Great ...ChangerCharles 9/8/2012 3:43 RT @chronicle: Everything you need to know about MOOCS: http://t.co/WhjrqEzK #somelightweekendreading http://chroni.cl/OQOHHd

ChangerCharles 9/8/2012 3:44 http://medievalnews.blogspot.com/2012/09/sixth-century-baptistery-discovered-in.htmlChangerCharles 9/8/2012 3:46 @cheche_hazel is this really you? Have I finally discovered your hermitage?ChangerCharles 9/8/2012 3:47 RT @OccupAnthro: The adjunct anthropologist?s open thread via Savage Minds. http://t.co/gn2HTtvt http://fb.me/2niTeQY8c

ChangerCharles 9/8/2012 3:47 http://medievalnews.blogspot.com/2012/09/anglo-saxon-treasures-uncovered-at.htmlChangerCharles 9/8/2012 3:47 RT @englandhistory: On this day in 1533, Queen Elizabeth I was born - see When Women Ruled the World: The Glorious Sixteenth Century htt ...ChangerCharles 9/8/2012 3:48 RT @SarahEBond: On this day in 70 CE Jerusalem was fully taken by Titus and the Romans. As Josephus said, "a city that had been liable t ...ChangerCharles 9/8/2012 3:48 RT @blmedieval: Today we present to you Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes, with a portrait of Chaucer http://t.co/dLgYTelP http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2012/09/image-and-text-meet-in-a-royal-regiment.htmlChangerCharles 9/8/2012 14:04 RT @SarahEBond: A review of artist Bianca Stone and Anne Carson?s wondrous, illustrated adaptation of Antigone via @Slate http://t.co/19 ...ChangerCharles 9/8/2012 14:05 RT @SebSobecki: Britain on engraved Vatican mappa mundi http://t.co/SMIyuUml http://instagr.am/p/PUBShsRLWr/ChangerCharles 9/8/2012 14:07 @MedievalWorld You could be in the plague of marking someone else's papers in an online gaol! (As I am)ChangerCharles 9/8/2012 16:16 @caitlin_holton your Twitterfeed is a blessed respit from my current paper marking purgatorio!ChangerCharles 9/8/2012 16:37 @caitlin_holton ha! Ha! Coffee, Mead, Ale, something must help restore us on days such as these!Comphaze 9/9/2012 3:21 RT @TeachMoore: Spending a beautiful, sunny Sat w/cool jazz & reading students' writing.#iloveteachingComphaze 9/9/2012 3:22 @JudyArzt ive had some negative experiences w it thoughComphaze 9/9/2012 15:33 @JudyArzt ive had some negative experiences w it thoughComphaze 9/9/2012 21:21 Walked past Macys today and saw that suit, the interview suit, and wondered what it wouldve been like if I had gotten that interview.Comphaze 9/9/2012 21:25 Lifes a stream of wouldve, couldves, isnt it? But not this time. Im sure Im back on track. Im sure Ive shaken free. #mantrasComphaze 9/10/2012 14:45 @JudyArzt ive had some negative experiences w it though

ChangerCharles 9/11/2012 4:32 http://ow.ly/dzqP0ChangerCharles 9/11/2012 4:32 RT @SarahEBond: #Roman imperial era bath found at the ancient city of Elaissua Sebaste (???????? ???????) during Sapienza excavations. h ...

RT @Medievalists: Medieval News: Sixth-century baptistery discovered in Kosovo http://t.co/4h1J7EK5 #Byzantine

RT @Medievalists: Medieval News: Anglo-Saxon treasures uncovered at Polesworth Abbey dig http://t.co/64c81BDU

RT @Medievalists: ARTICLES: The True Characters of Criseyde and of Diomede in Chaucer?s Troilusand Criseyde... http://t.co/YPrYlPab #C ...

ChangerCharles 9/11/2012 4:33 RT @Chick_Witch: I think I'm having a historical breakdown/crisis. How do people study more than one time period!? #medievalistproblemsChangerCharles 9/11/2012 4:33 RT @medievalqub: On the fate of 16th-century magician-priest Pedro Ruis Calder?n: http://t.co/dryfzdWM http://flpbd.it/kpf0aChangerCharles 9/11/2012 5:15 @CompHaze So it is you. It MUST be you. There is no longer any question in my mind. I have been watching your Tweets. I am without doubt.Comphaze 9/11/2012 5:20 @Changercharles please stop harassing me. Stop spamming me! I dont know you!ChangerCharles 9/11/2012 5:25 @CompHaze I do not see what could possibly motivate such a denial. Clearly, I have found you. I do not wish you any harm.ChangerCharles 9/11/2012 5:30 @Comphaze, I never did.Comphaze 9/11/2012 5:40 @ChangerCharles Please, please, you have the wrong person. There are lots of Hazels on the Internet.ChangerCharles 9/11/2012 5:45 @CompHaze, yet there is only one I know who once had a suit, a beautiful suit, she could never wear in an interview.ChangerCharles 9/11/2012 5:50 Because of me. @CompHazeComphaze 9/11/2012 6:01 @Changercharles whats past is past. ive left that behind.juanahang 9/11/2012 6:03 Hiya, Twits and Tweeters!juanahang 9/11/2012 6:03 Decided to come back cuz -- why not?juanahang 9/11/2012 6:03 Like the new handle? Do you get it? Do ya?juanahang 9/11/2012 6:04 Juana hang? ??juanahang 9/11/2012 6:05 Wanna hang as in hangout? RT @juanahang Juana hang? ??ChangerCharles 9/11/2012 6:05 @Comphaze The Internet never forgets, and neither could I, and neither can you.juanahang 9/11/2012 6:11 It hurts to be this clever. It just hurts.ChangerCharles 9/11/2012 7:31 RT @mzmelisende: Richard III search: archaeologists 'tantalisingly close' to finding king's body via @Telegraph http://t.co/c5lUVOwc http://soc.li/Wv49jKJComphaze 9/11/2012 15:05 Woke up this morning with a hangover of dread. Had a dream of chaos running down the hall in the form of a pack of screaming children+Comphaze 9/11/2012 15:06 they were all wearing masks that looked like medieval monks, carrying torches, pitchforks, raising signs that said Burn the Witch and +Comphaze 9/11/2012 15:07 occupy.Comphaze 9/11/2012 15:08 But then I had a flash of #profdarcy teaching his 9am class, in his ironed shirt and neatly cuffed pants, his boardwork impeccable...Comphaze 9/11/2012 15:10 Of course, you shouldve seen the handout I created for the writing lab. Its about passive voice. Soon as they fix the copier Ill get it out.juanahang 9/11/2012 15:11 RT @carlyraejepsen: I?ll be live on @BBCBreakfast this morning from 8.40am, tune in UK!juanahang 9/11/2012 15:12 Could it be that Twitter has gotten way cooler than when I left? @carlyraejespen You're hear? Awesome!juanahang 9/11/2012 16:04 Oh, soooooooooooobreathoooooooooooooooo many chefs to follow, so little twime! #reasonsIlurvtwitterjuanahang 9/11/2012 16:05 wait, did that sound too foodie stalky?ChangerCharles 9/11/2012 16:25 RT @UoNCSVA: For a bit of Vikings in the modern age: the producers of 'The Tudors' is creating a TV show called 'Vikings'. Info: http:// ...ChangerCharles 9/11/2012 16:58 Adjunct is no longer accurate for my current puerile position, much more accurate to call me a subjunct!Comphaze 9/12/2012 2:51 RT @LindaAragoni: Interview with author Livia McCoy on teaching students with learning disorders http://t.co/XIGEWDl8 #engchat #FYCchat ... http://bit.ly/aTXdVaComphaze 9/12/2012 2:54 @TeacherGarden yes but twittering can be dangerous!Comphaze 9/12/2012 2:55 RT @JudyArzt: The Missing Element in Student Success (essay by Mike Rose) http://t.co/q9z5PufY Must-read for educators #edchat #cpchat http://buff.ly/Nh3PwuComphaze 9/12/2012 2:56 RT @insidehighered: Inside Higher Ed: Breast-Feeding While Teaching / The NCAA's Limited Reach -- September 10, 2012 Daily Update - htt ...Comphaze 9/12/2012 2:57 RT @racheledits: #Writing likes to follow you like a happy tail-wagging puppy, just waiting to be played with.Comphaze 9/12/2012 2:57 RT @rhondalevaldo: Please Pass along, the Native American Journalists Association is looking for an Executive Director for its office! h ...Comphaze 9/12/2012 2:58 RT @LindaAragoni: Bloom #taxonomy shows activities #writing teachers assume students can do that may be far too hard http://t.co/UpzOwIYT http://bit.ly/8rAqOzComphaze 9/12/2012 2:59 RT @LindaAragoni: #grammar & #composition need to be taught together http://t.co/gUiUN14R #engchat #FYCchat #sped http://bit.ly/a1tiBVComphaze 9/12/2012 3:00 RT @LindaAragoni: #topicsentence contains #topic & assertion about it, just as #thesis statement does. http://t.co/quB86rW1 #engchat ... http://bit.ly/4eUfXIChangerCharles 9/12/2012 3:01 RT @WriteForward: You fail only if you stop #writing. ~Ray BradburyComphaze 9/12/2012 3:01 RT @WriteForward: You fail only if you stop #writing. ~Ray BradburyComphaze 9/12/2012 3:03 RT @JudyArzt: RT @educatoral: Thirteen Thoughts on Student Blogging http://t.co/AAHR4hPe @johntspencer #engchat #elemchat http://buff.ly/PWo3ZHComphaze 9/12/2012 3:04 Whats a mooc?Comphaze 9/12/2012 3:48 @TeacherGarden right, but sometimes even our best intentions can go astray (& be misread) under the iron fist of 140 charsComphaze 9/12/2012 3:49 @TeacherGarden thats what happened to me at least. #buthtawasthenjuanahang 9/12/2012 4:35 RT @dinnerwithjulie: Why do I still have such a hard time making a decision? WHY??ChangerCharles 9/12/2012 8:14 So whither have you been @comphaze? With what have you been engaging your time?Comphaze 9/12/2012 8:19 @ChangerCharles oh, well, the local community college needed a last minute replacement for a remedial comp class so I'm here...ChangerCharles 9/12/2012 8:20 @CompHaze Yes, we all had to settle.Comphaze 9/12/2012 8:20 @ChangerCharles that's not very niceChangerCharles 9/12/2012 8:22 @CompHaze We cannot gild our destiny...Comphaze 9/12/2012 8:23 @ChangerCharles whatever. So whats been your destiny? Did you get a class?ChangerCharles 9/12/2012 8:25 @CompHaze Hardly. I am a paid grading monkey for an online course another instructor teaches or webinates.Comphaze 9/12/2012 8:25 @ChangerCharles sounds horrid. Im sorry.ChangerCharles 9/12/2012 8:27 @CompHaze Do not feel blame. If anyone, I led us to this lowly lair. But I have thoughts on a return!Comphaze 9/12/2012 8:28 @ChangerCharles you know what, im exhausted and I teach tomoro. Can we chat abt this some other time?ChangerCharles 9/12/2012 8:29 @CompHaze surely. My weeter dreams enshrowd your slumber.Comphaze 9/12/2012 12:31 Finally decided I would hav 2 be the 1 to fixx the copy machine! Several large smudges of toner on my skirt later, sweaty, dirty, its fixedComphaze 9/13/2012 3:34 @teachergarden Yes, it did. Some things I was posting and things other people posted really did me in a while back. Thnx for asking.ChangerCharles 9/13/2012 5:03 RT @medievalisms: Richard III's body possibly found. http://t.co/sPrR9khT http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9537600/Strong-evidence-Richard-IIIs-body-has-been-found-with-a-curved-spine.htmlChangerCharles 9/13/2012 6:12 RT @oresteshighking: I don't always eat Athenian cuisine, but when I do, I make sure it's a dish Theseus hates.

ChangerCharles 9/13/2012 8:08ChangerCharles 9/13/2012 8:09 RT @Medievalists: Article: The Middle Ages: The Approach to the Truce of God http://t.co/wxwt5czN http://bit.ly/OhVdl5ChangerCharles 9/13/2012 12:46 Here is the question stated succinctly. Read: Why Bother? Thoughts from an ?Old? PhD http://t.co/rgmoZPv8 Inside Higher education http://ow.ly/dFRe3ChangerCharles 9/13/2012 13:34 RT @Medievalists: Article: Apprentices and Apprenticeship in Early Fourteenth-Century London http://t.co/HstpIRAv #medieval http://ow.ly/dFQvBChangerCharles 9/13/2012 13:35 RT @RichardTaylor_: Is this Richard III, England's last Plantagenet king? A balanced piece from New Scientist http://t.co/2vHZwCS3 http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22266-is-this-richard-iii-englands-last-plantagenet-king.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-newsChangerCharles 9/13/2012 13:35 RT @NationalGallery: The artist Mantegna, who died today in 1506, produced his work in Padua, Verona, Venice and Mantua http://t.co/Hn1yAWZl http://ow.ly/dGc51ChangerCharles 9/13/2012 15:19 RT @SusanAbernethy2: A short bio of King Richard III of England whose bones may have been found.... http://t.co/5BXrFozB http://fb.me/1AP0Jf5dTChangerCharles 9/13/2012 18:02 As I sit & digitally mark the 127 subject verb agreement of the day, the temptation grows strong. Tie me to the mast. http://t.co/sm2ujUCW http://ow.ly/dGZZ2ChangerCharles 9/14/2012 1:20 So what has been occupying your time? @CompHazeComphaze 9/14/2012 1:25 Like I said the other nite, mostly adjuncting and running the writing lab at the local community college. @ChangerCharlesChangerCharles 9/14/2012 1:31 @CompHaze And who praytell is #profdarcy?Comphaze 9/14/2012 1:35 You know @ChangerCharles Id really appreciate it if you didnt comb through my old tweets to spy on me.ChangerCharles 9/14/2012 1:40 Rowr LolCatz LMAO @CompHazeComphaze 9/14/2012 1:45 Updating your vocabulary to the 19th century are you? @ChangerCharlesChangerCharles 9/14/2012 1:50 @CompHaze Is that the snark of forgiveness I detect neath your tweets?Comphaze 9/14/2012 1:55 Are you apologizing? Or did I miss something? @ChangerCharlesChangerCharles 9/14/2012 2:02 My usual charming online sprezztura is again making me friends and influencing people. @CompHazeComphaze 9/14/2012 2:05 Self-effacement? @ChangerCharles Thats new. You really mustve hit a rough patch.ChangerCharles 9/14/2012 2:10 Many things that once were mine have slipped away, dreams, enthusiasms, loves @CompHazeComphaze 9/14/2012 2:21 And they didnt come back, yet? How are you holding up? @ChangerCharlesChangerCharles 9/14/2012 2:26 @CompHaze Like a Thirteenth-Century hermit.Comphaze 9/14/2012 2:30 @ChangerCharles Oh, rt, what did expect?

ChangerCharles 9/14/2012 5:45 http://ow.ly/dHx9dChangerCharles 9/14/2012 7:39 RT @medievalbook: BLP Week 3: re: The Princes in the Tower: 'DNA may solve mystery of Richard III and the Princ... http://t.co/fcZLLgNT ... http://bit.ly/QVTwjzChangerCharles 9/14/2012 19:07 RT @medievalbook: The Forgotten Text of Nikolai Golovin: New Light on the Igor Tale: Mann argues that a rare te... http://t.co/nKHi1iJW ... http://bit.ly/U2CoroChangerCharles 9/14/2012 19:07 RT @SusanAbernethy2: The BBC has some great resources for history. This one is about the Normans in England.... http://t.co/hSNsExKF http://fb.me/2nar7EH0xChangerCharles 9/14/2012 19:07 RT @HopeSteffen: What days of near-farcical befuddlement! An institute sending vague signals and students passing them on is an unholy m ...ChangerCharles 9/14/2012 19:08 RT @blmedieval: More #blmedievalontheroad The hauntingly beautiful interior of Gro? Sankt Martin in Cologne, c 1150-1250. http://t.co/Fo ...ChangerCharles 9/14/2012 19:08 RT @chronicle: One year later, scholars speak up for #Occupy: http://t.co/1mwNTUlp http://chroni.cl/U2K5OsChangerCharles 9/15/2012 5:20 RT @MedievalCombatK: Social Aggravations during the Period of #Medieval #Wars in #Europe http://t.co/zqUt9N5p #warfare http://ow.ly/dImldChangerCharles 9/17/2012 3:57 Though I cannot afford to join the Association of Languages Modern, I can at least peek at their list of positions http://t.co/wAyAob9d http://www.mlajobleaks.comChangerCharles 9/17/2012 4:00 With the liberation of the job list, the serfs are finally climbing over the balustrades of that all-powerful language association.ChangerCharles 9/17/2012 4:08 There comes a time when the normal practices of convention become unbearable, and what follows is change.ChangerCharles 9/17/2012 4:10 What is the cliche? I can feel it on the air, in the breeze, on the wind...ChangerCharles 9/17/2012 4:12 RT @TeacherReality: What's going on now across the nation reminds me of San Diego Unified 10 yrs ago. MANY of my co-teachers took anti-a ...juanahang 9/17/2012 4:13 RT @TasteWanderlust: @TylerFlorence Tonight's episode was great! The talent on this season never ceases to impress me #GreatFoodTruckRaceChangerCharles 9/17/2012 6:53 RT @medievalbook: The medieval peasant house in Bohemia ? continuity and change: The archaeologically resolved ... http://t.co/lBBzAm9a ... http://bit.ly/UdfWvWChangerCharles 9/17/2012 6:55 RT @MedievalCombatK: #A wise man carries his cloak in fair weather, and a fool wants his in the rain." - #Scottish #proverb #quoteChangerCharles 9/17/2012 7:57 RT @HistoryNeedsYou: Good morning one and all. Today is the feast day of #Hildegard von Bingen - the #medi?val composer & theologian ...ChangerCharles 9/17/2012 20:19 I would call academic age discrimination mediaeval except it is not. ME scholars *valued* age #higheredChangerCharles 9/18/2012 0:04 RT @Medievalists: Article: Expressions of Power ? Luxury textiles from early medieval northern Europe http://t.co/V9506U1f http://bit.ly/Ugr0Z9ChangerCharles 9/18/2012 2:34 RT @Medievalists: Article: Reading Machiavelli Rhetorically: The Prince as Covert Critique of the Renaissance Prince http://t.co/0Ret3EFP http://bit.ly/Oz6aPxChangerCharles 9/18/2012 2:35 RT @LeVostreGC: #ImThePersonWho everyone ys al lyk "Wayte, who ys that guye, he looketh weirde" even thogh Ich have been ridinge wyth th ...ChangerCharles 9/18/2012 2:35 RT @SusanAbernethy2: On this day in 1462, the Battle of Swiecino (Poland) was fought during the Thirteen Years War. http://t.co/eE31sN8y http://fb.me/1F0ACtHDvChangerCharles 9/18/2012 3:00 @SusanAbernethy2 You are a font a wondrous tweets. My thanks to you!ChangerCharles 9/18/2012 3:14 RT @don_macdonald: @Medievalists I wrote about this a while back: http://t.co/5qrECOgo Machiavelli's own letters are the best counter-ar ... http://donmacdonald.com/2010/10/the-prince-is-not-a-satire/ChangerCharles 9/18/2012 3:14 RT @Medievalists: Article: English rural life in the fifteenth century http://t.co/CYp8MYvI #Pastons http://bit.ly/UhlSEi

RT @acmrs_org: Happy Birthday King Francis I! (12 September 1494 ? 31 March 1547)

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Comphaze 9/18/2012 8:08 RT @bkuhl2you: Narrative/lit are about empathy, for me. Informational text often just feels like transmission. The banking theory agai ...Comphaze 9/18/2012 8:09 RT @AndersonGL: Sorry I have to bug out now. Great #engchat conversation tonight! Thanks, everybody.Comphaze 9/18/2012 8:10 RT @bkuhl2you: "Being a good reader means feeling involved, feeling powerful, able to effect change." It sounds better in person. #engchatComphaze 9/18/2012 8:12 RT @bkuhl2you: Like the notion of "tension" from Don Murray - some kind of twist or unusual approach to topic - characteristic of all go ...Comphaze 9/18/2012 8:17 RT @WriteForward: What do you want to see in an adult #writing #assessment? ReadForward Survey: #WriteForward Content and Question Types ...Comphaze 9/18/2012 8:24 RT @CarolJago: "Teaching provides a better education than being a student." Joseph Epstein #engchatComphaze 9/18/2012 8:25 RT @LindaAragoni: Informal writing can provide #formative #assessment of even #grammar topics. http://t.co/QLs0kahm #ozengchat http://bit.ly/1SwHAsComphaze 9/18/2012 8:55 RT @jbarelc: The writing center is basically just a place to give procrastinators a chance to succeed..Comphaze 9/18/2012 15:45 @vjalander1 me, too! Thanks @AndersonGL Just in the nick of time!Comphaze 9/18/2012 15:54 RT @WriteForward: I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. #Writing a poem is discovering. ~Robert FrostComphaze 9/18/2012 15:54 RT @LindaAragoni: Reading graphic about #expository #paragraph mimics structural #reading technique. http://t.co/AiSkEKC2 http://bit.ly/35bLE9Comphaze 9/18/2012 15:55 wow! Awesome writing links and tips on Twitter today! Thx everyone!Comphaze 9/18/2012 15:55 RT @LindaAragoni: Using #writing as #tool to reach other goals makes #teaching more efficient & effective. http://t.co/46UFtqz8 http://bit.ly/eGibzComphaze 9/18/2012 15:55 RT @facultyfocus: Six things professors can do to help students improve their research and writing skills : http://t.co/sS1ooIoO #higher ... http://bit.ly/POso4dChangerCharles 9/18/2012 16:17 Zounds! This leaked job list actually has a few positions I could deign to apply! Wonder of Wonders!ChangerCharles 9/18/2012 16:22 RT @ShellTerrell: RT @twhitford: We need 2 TRANSFORM our Ed System. I realize schools r not ready 4 transformation, but it must happen # ...ChangerCharles 9/18/2012 16:22 RT @QZLPatriotHawk: I don't believe many think "their" school needs reform...it's everyone else. #edchatChangerCharles 9/18/2012 16:38 RT @touqo: Just tuning in to #edchat. When you talk about education reform, do you refer to some global thing or (e.g.) US-specific?ChangerCharles 9/18/2012 18:56 RT @medievalbook: Epidemic Trade: This paper studies the spread of the Black Death as a proxy for the intensity... http://t.co/Fbh9JEID ... http://bit.ly/RqYG1DChangerCharles 9/18/2012 18:57 RT @campusprogress: #FYI the deadline to apply to join the @campusprogress Action Network is Oct. 2! http://t.co/ijpf5BHL http://cpro.gs/rcqDjdChangerCharles 9/19/2012 5:35 RT @jessicamadadg: College costs cloud out worth of degree: For those still in school, tuition is increasing, student loans are bec... h ...ChangerCharles 9/19/2012 5:35 RT @jessicamadadg: Let's not let student-loan debt wreck young lives: We were thrilled this past week that the University of Housto... h ...ChangerCharles 9/19/2012 5:37 RT @medievalbook: Why Grateley? Reflections on Anglo-Saxon Kingship in a Hampshire Landscape: This paper focuse... http://t.co/QIOn3ssl ... http://bit.ly/PFsHuEChangerCharles 9/19/2012 5:37 RT @EducatorMusing: Read Nation's Report Card for yourself #edchat #in #edreform NAEP - 2011 Writing: Index http://t.co/Q7wR8IC7 http://buff.ly/QinJosjuanahang 9/19/2012 6:20 Reflections: Gopher from The Love Boat was a US Congressman. Think about it.ChangerCharles 9/19/2012 7:14 RT @Sarah_Peverley: Dan Brown will be loving this.Paleography and Jesus' possible wife: http://t.co/2RNmZsvq (via @Diane_Watt) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/us/historian-says-piece-of-papyrus-refers-to-jesus-wife.html?_r=1&smid=fb-shareChangerCharles 9/19/2012 7:15 RT @The_book_girl: ELECTION CONNECTION: #Studentloan debt reaches new heights & is driven upward by proliferation of #4profit colleg ...Comphaze 9/19/2012 7:28 Ill raise you ten. sigh. RT @wscottcheney: one. more. paper. #grading #bedtimeChangerCharles 9/19/2012 7:32 RT @Chick_Witch: Arrrr me hearties, yo ho! @HistoryGems Sept 19 is of course #talklikeapirate day so a quote "to err is human, to arr i ...ChangerCharles 9/19/2012 15:50 RT @MedievalCombatK: "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do" - W #Goethe #quoteComphaze 9/19/2012 16:00 RT @facultyfocus: Cultivating Curiosity in Our Students as a Catalyst for Learning http://t.co/PpXstqwW http://bit.ly/PzHDMCComphaze 9/19/2012 16:01 RT @tululoo: W Replies: Writing Centers and Twitter: How We Use this ?Weird? Space and How Students Perceive It http://t.co/w3VvmcPv via ... http://wp.me/p1V3Y6-30Comphaze 9/19/2012 16:02 @comPOSITIONblog I know the feeling. Ive got writing center hours on top of that!Comphaze 9/19/2012 16:02 RT @Dr_Pendergrass: #teachread What are the best examples of formative assessments you have seen in the classroom?Comphaze 9/19/2012 16:02 RT @JudyArzt: 5 Must-Have iOS Apps For Writers | Edudemic http://t.co/s8hfU3BE Hard to keep up with all these apps #ipad #edchat http://buff.ly/NqNFkaChangerCharles 9/19/2012 16:05 RT @EducatorMusing: Amen! #edcgat #in #edreform Gifted Students Deserve More Opportunities http://t.co/bfWx6GQi http://buff.ly/OZiYQuChangerCharles 9/19/2012 16:27 Oh, please, if Jesus had actually had a wife, he would not have required a cross to suffer for our sins!ChangerCharles 9/19/2012 16:29 Mea culpa, that bit of potential blasphemy was underwritten by my own private hell.Comphaze 9/19/2012 19:12 @compositionblog Thats my same schedule! Except I got conned into coordinating the writing center till they hire a manager. Agh.ChangerCharles 9/19/2012 19:14 RT @oresteshighking: That awkward moment when Elektra tries to talk like a pirate and sounds more convincing than some real Aegean pirat ...ChangerCharles 9/19/2012 19:14 RT @medievalbook: Mystery of the Newport Medieval Ship Solved?: New evidence suggests that the Newport medieval... http://t.co/mfU2EDQl ... http://bit.ly/OFADLKChangerCharles 9/19/2012 19:15 RT @Trepanatus: Re: student papers. Spellcheck has its evil side.ChangerCharles 9/19/2012 19:16 I believe I have reached my limit for marking agreement errors today. It is not even satisfying online. How I long for the days of red pens.Comphaze 9/20/2012 5:09 @compositionblog or they figured out that I wont say no -- someday i want to work at this place fulltime.ChangerCharles 9/20/2012 5:13 RT @OntheTudorTrail: Did Arthur, Prince of Wales, consummate his marriage to Catherine of Aragon? Where do you stand? Read the case &amp ...ChangerCharles 9/20/2012 5:15 RT @joe_bower: An education is not something someone can sell you.juanahang 9/20/2012 5:15 RT @britneyspears: I'm so happy y'all are into the show. I love it too. Tweeting along again for tomorrow's episode. Hope 2 C U 2! Night ...juanahang 9/20/2012 5:16 RT @Kheffernan212: Partnered with The "French" @ruthreichl what a blast ! Thanks so much @BravoTopChefjuanahang 9/20/2012 5:16 RT @britneyspears: I LOVE Ice Ice Baby so of course I was into Mister Rizloe. What were y?all predicting for him?juanahang 9/20/2012 6:05 RT @VaguelyFunnyDan: Okay, a Twitter follower just showed up at my house. That is severely fucked up. I mean I know it's my mom and all, ...

juanahang 9/20/2012 6:05juanahang 9/20/2012 6:06 RT @dinnerwithjulie: I think the phrase "jumped the shark" has jumped the shark.ChangerCharles 9/20/2012 6:18 RT @MedievalCombatK: ? #Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make #man a more clever #devil? ~ CS #Lewis #quoteComphaze 9/20/2012 6:42 RT @kaaw23: me and the writing center are about to be best friends this year #notashamed #profstopsreadingafterthreemistakesComphaze 9/20/2012 6:42 RT @jaykell03: S\o to @ItsBrittanyyy27 .. the best paper revisor at the writing center pretty sure I got an A on it.Comphaze 9/20/2012 6:42 RT @littlemisskiara: the writing center is definitely a lifesaver!Comphaze 9/20/2012 6:44 @katiesshere Sounds like a dream!Comphaze 9/20/2012 15:04 just got a slip in my mail box beneath flyers 4 part-timers, including an ad for EduMaids, a cleaning service thats hiring. TemptingComphaze 9/20/2012 15:07 the note said that I am to have an in-class performance observation in a few weeks by none other than #profdarcy!Comphaze 9/20/2012 15:11 Chair never mentioned anything abt being observed before, never heard of other part-timers getting this kind of treatmetn. Is this typical?ChangerCharles 9/20/2012 16:06 The world of higher ed is starting roil my indignation once more. It is too difficult to sit in my solitary cell.ChangerCharles 9/20/2012 16:09 Lurking in the shadows is draining my soul. I need to don my besagues, breast plate, and beaver and re-enter the fray!Comphaze 9/20/2012 17:50 Passed #profdarcy by the office coffee pot. He mentioned the observation. I tried to play it cool.Comphaze 9/20/2012 17:56 He sees right through me. Or those steely blue-grey eyes seem to look right through me. #profdarcyComphaze 9/20/2012 18:04 He says its department policy that all new adjuncts get observed once a semester during their first two years. #profdarcyComphaze 9/20/2012 18:06 Says hes looking forward to seeing how I teach. Wants to see how I perform in front of the class. #profdarcyComphaze 9/20/2012 18:16 I could really use a beer but Ive got a long day (and night) at the writing center ahead of meChangerCharles 9/21/2012 2:30 RT @VCVaileNFM: And now for some good news...: And now for some good news...NLRB Announces Landslide Victory for the Adjunct Fac... http ...ChangerCharles 9/21/2012 2:31 RT @jessicamadadg: Student life is rich yet expensive experience: And when the student loan arrives a few weeks into term, many you... h ...

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ChangerCharles 9/21/2012 2:31ChangerCharles 9/21/2012 2:32 RT @perurealfonso: Treasures of the UCLA Library: Near Eastern Manuscripts http://t.co/YqZE5ghe @UCLA_YRL http://youtu.be/lILtIsvOByIChangerCharles 9/21/2012 2:33 RT @joe_bower: The Far Side of Educational Reform http://t.co/40w2G6hK http://bit.ly/RCgfftChangerCharles 9/21/2012 2:34 RT @jessicamadadg: Mature Market for Online Education | CAPPS Online: The number of adult students has grown rapidly over the last ... h ...ChangerCharles 9/21/2012 2:35 @jessicamadadg in my role as online grading servant, I can tell neither age nor gender nor humanity of these online students!ChangerCharles 9/21/2012 2:35 RT @NathenAmin: @OntheTudorTrail "Owen Tudor, Father of a Dynasty", the rags to riches story of the gallant and romantic Owen http://t.c ...ChangerCharles 9/21/2012 2:36 RT @RoyalUniverse: Anthony Babington, convicted of plotting with Mary Queen of Scots to assassinate Elizabeth I, was executed for treaso ...ChangerCharles 9/21/2012 2:37 RT @caitlin_holton: Job posting at North Dakota State U - #medieval #english #digitalhumanities #dh http://t.co/738wV6Lk http://www.ndsu.edu/english/medieval_specialist_search/ChangerCharles 9/21/2012 7:37 RT @The_book_girl: #4Profits Prior to Community College? Students beware! by Daniel Luzer | Washington Monthly http://t.co/v081SDtu http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/blog/forprofits_prior_to_community_1.phpChangerCharles 9/21/2012 7:37 RT @The_book_girl: #ForProfit Education: Value for Whom? - The Huffington Post #highered #edu http://t.co/1Hf1L7KR http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/jeremy-dehn/art-institute-of-colorado_b_1901133.htmlChangerCharles 9/21/2012 7:38 RT @Medievalists: Feature: What was the Black Death http://t.co/ZSLk8SrB http://bit.ly/i7PSg6ChangerCharles 9/21/2012 7:38 RT @elizabethforma: Brown's votes against student loans didn't protect small biz; protected 'multibillion dollar tax shelter.' http://t. ...ChangerCharles 9/21/2012 7:38 RT @ERITudor: #OnThisDayinTUDORHistory 1486 Arthur Tudor was born at Winchester. Read more about his birth on @AnneBoleynFiles :http://t ...ChangerCharles 9/21/2012 7:40 RT @medievalbook: Naughty Nuns and Promiscuous Monks: Monastic Sexual Misconduct in Late Medieval England: This... http://t.co/O4Tnqpr0 ... http://bit.ly/RCpuldComphaze 9/21/2012 15:49 No, its not a valid demonstration of "critical thinking" in your persoanl nattative to say that writing requirements are pointless!Comphaze 9/22/2012 3:45 RT @LindaAragoni: Key to teaching compare-contrast: Ask "What questions could be answered by comparing A & B?" http://t.co/oYZd7oHc http://bit.ly/slPInUComphaze 9/22/2012 3:46 RT @LindaAragoni: For students, find-replace is better than #grammar check. http://t.co/B3zQQS6H http://bit.ly/5inooiComphaze 9/22/2012 3:46 RT @JudyArzt: RT @MikeGwaltney: Writing Rules! Advice From The NY Times on Writing Well: http://t.co/SFUUVxU3 #usjfall12 #fycchat http://buff.ly/Tbb8JDComphaze 9/22/2012 3:51 RT @LindaAragoni: Of 7 most common #punctuation errors, 6 are about commas, 1 about apostrophe http://t.co/80DdtDQP http://bit.ly/tSvugGChangerCharles 9/23/2012 6:27 RT @jessicamadadg: Interest in online courses growing: Public colleges also have to look in their rearview mirrors watching for sta... h ...ChangerCharles 9/23/2012 6:27 RT @jessicamadadg: High cost of a calling: As an undergraduate, she had earned a double degree in art and psychology at Eastern Ore... h ...

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ChangerCharles 9/23/2012 6:31ChangerCharles 9/23/2012 6:32 RT @monarchyconf: V.interesting books from @Sabine75006: Savy, 'L'Europe des rois et des princes: 1215-1492' & Bathelemy, 'Le roi, l ...ChangerCharles 9/23/2012 6:33 RT @MiguelEscotet: The Condition of #Education 2012: Facts, Figures, Tables and Reports ? http://t.co/3YKDPZoe http://bit.ly/QrJncEChangerCharles 9/23/2012 6:34 RT @VCVaileNFM: Reminder?Register for our 1st webinar for #NFM members, "Alert the Press: Media...: Reminder?Register for our 1s... http ...ChangerCharles 9/23/2012 6:34 RT @staffshoard: New Migration Period Hoard from the 5th century AD found near Roskilde in Denmark http://t.co/H0hafwxF via @waylandtb http://on.natgeo.com/Thjr6YComphaze 9/23/2012 6:36 RT @JudyArzt: 'Children Succeed' With Character, Not Test Scores : NPR http://t.co/MdZp5cuF #edchat #ptchat @Joe_Mazza http://buff.ly/PFNmPzComphaze 9/23/2012 6:37 RT @JudyArzt: RT @TheWriteGroup: The Write Group Daily is out! http://t.co/BDJ8XCCQ If you teach Eng or writing, check this out! http://buff.ly/P9RzLYComphaze 9/23/2012 6:38 RT @LindaAragoni: To Stay Relevant in a Career, Workers Train Nonstop http://t.co/tODKxkf8 http://nyti.ms/ScioCvChangerCharles 9/23/2012 6:39 Ha! Good luck @comphaze "@LindaAragoni: To Stay Relevant in a Career, Workers Train Nonstop http://t.co/EQ0Uopnu" http://nyti.ms/ScioCvComphaze 9/23/2012 6:40 @ChangerCharles Whats wrong now? Really?

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ChangerCharles 9/23/2012 6:42 @CompHaze I am merely noting the fruitlessness of attempting to keep oneself market ready. Our Ph.D.s grow stale?Comphaze 9/23/2012 6:43 @ChangerCharles not necessarily. And anyway I believe the point is that we just make sure we stay relevant.ChangerCharles 9/23/2012 6:44 @CompHaze and when is a mediaevilist's value measured in relevance. That kind of market-think is a trap.Comphaze 9/23/2012 6:48 @ChangerCharles if you want to keep playing the self-pitying hermit, go right ahead. If not, get relevant or get out of the game.ChangerCharles 9/23/2012 6:48 @CompHaze Bitter, are we?Comphaze 9/23/2012 6:50 @ChangerCharles I wouldnt be in this position if it werent for you. I had a real job, an interview at leastChangerCharles 9/23/2012 6:52 @CompHaze oh. So the merry dance has returned to the rondo of blame. Did I force you to join with me? Did I deceive you?Comphaze 9/23/2012 6:53 @ChangerCharles you know what you did. And you did it intentionally.ChangerCharles 9/23/2012 6:54 @CompHaze and there you are gravely mistaken. I would never knowingly sabotage your chances at something you so desired.Comphaze 9/23/2012 6:55 @ChangerCharles you just rewrite history with a tweet. You were so jealous. I had everything you wanted so you torpedoed my chancesChangerCharles 9/23/2012 6:58 @CompHaze I was not thinking clearly at that time. None of us were. Remember how John was behaving? We were under almost constant seige.Comphaze 9/23/2012 6:58 @ChangerCharles there's no excuse for what you did.ChangerCharles 9/23/2012 7:00 No, no excuse. "@CompHaze: @ChangerCharles there's no excuse for what you did."ChangerCharles 9/23/2012 7:03 @CompHaze is there any apology you would accept?Comphaze 9/23/2012 7:06 @ChangerCharles is that an admission?ChangerCharles 9/23/2012 7:07 @CompHaze call it what you'd like.ChangerCharles 9/23/2012 7:14 @CompHaze It has been a long road to face the tremendous sense of failure under which I have been sufferingComphaze 9/23/2012 7:17 @ChangerCharles I believe that I will take that as a yes.ChangerCharles 9/23/2012 7:24 @CompHaze I have lost so much of what gives a life meaning. It appears my dignity as well. And have I also lost my one-time comrade?Comphaze 9/23/2012 7:31 @ChangerCharles maybe in losing a little dignity and a little pride, you will find some of what you threw awayChangerCharles 9/23/2012 7:31 "@CompHaze: @ChangerCharles maybe in losing a little dignity and a little pride, you will find some of what you threw away" I can only hopeChangerCharles 9/24/2012 2:29 RT @medievalbook: Anglo-Saxon presence and culture in Wiltshire c. AD 450-c. 675: It is suggested that the init... http://t.co/2QC7phEa ... http://bit.ly/TmUwipComphaze 9/24/2012 2:53 RT @wscottcheney: Reading student essay on the "literacy of laziness." This should be interesting.

Comphaze 9/24/2012 2:53 http://rhetmap.org/Comphaze 9/24/2012 2:54 Do I dare even glance at the mlajoblist for a rhetcomp job? http://t.co/GOmV2U3z http://rhetmap.org/Comphaze 9/24/2012 2:55 @compositionblog Maybe Ill apply -- just for kicks. LOL. I feel like a teaching leper when it comes to these things. sigh.Comphaze 9/24/2012 2:56 @bkuhl2you I love KAP!Comphaze 9/24/2012 7:35 RT @RealGeoffBarton: A lovely, optimistic blog to shape the week ahead: RT @HuntingEnglish: What makes a great teacher? http://t.co/A8usINFf http://wp.me/p2uRcx-5SComphaze 9/24/2012 7:38 RT @newsfromtengrrl: Protecting Your Time: Advice for Junior Faculty Members | dissoi logoi http://t.co/gyXyzkhL for adjuncts too! http://ow.ly/dVTerComphaze 9/24/2012 7:38 RT @newsfromtengrrl: As Online Courses Grow, Sites Offering Unauthorized Academic Help Get More Brazen - The Chronicle of Higher Educati ...Comphaze 9/24/2012 7:40 @bkuhl2you shes a treasure trove!ChangerCharles 9/24/2012 16:11 RT @chronicle: The job market for language professors is a little better this year, still not as good as it was pre-recession: http://t. ...ChangerCharles 9/24/2012 16:21 RT @chronicle: Dusquesne adjuncts vote to unionize: http://t.co/XCxbdI3C http://chroni.cl/QoGGZvChangerCharles 9/24/2012 16:26 @lindaaragoni I mean that the inquisitor who wants the medievalist Ph.D. to prove his relevance should hope only for a shallow auto-da-f?Comphaze 9/24/2012 18:57 #profdarcy stopped into the parttimers office today, or the chicken coop as I like to call it. Said theres been something on his mindComphaze 9/24/2012 19:03 hes sick of the way the dept treats parttimers,feels like its taking advatnage of adjunct & wants to know if I feel the same #profdarcyComphaze 9/24/2012 19:06 I told him Im knew and really couldnt say, but he keeps pressing me. #profdarcyComphaze 9/24/2012 19:12 & I told him I dont want to get involved in anything that could mess up my relationship with the school #profdarcyComphaze 9/24/2012 19:17 he says he understands and he realizes what a vulnerable position im in but if I ever want to get more involved...#profdarcyComphaze 9/24/2012 19:21 he doesnt know the half of it #profdarcyComphaze 9/25/2012 15:27 RT @JulieDRamsay: New Post: Looking to Connect Your Students? The Global Read Aloud is a great place to start http://t.co/5UNmlZNz #lang ... http://ow.ly/dYbjlComphaze 9/25/2012 15:28 @allisonberryhil OMG, not to mention grading papers! Celebrating you today! Cheers!Comphaze 9/25/2012 15:29 RT @TheAtlantic: How one high school's ambitious writing program became a model for U.S. education reform http://t.co/04pHstP3 #longreads http://theatln.tc/RPyWvAComphaze 9/25/2012 15:30 @adrianachavira Nice! But if the stack is higher than 20 papers, I go for the whip!Comphaze 9/25/2012 15:31 @nenifoofer i love it.Comphaze 9/25/2012 15:37 RT @LindaAragoni: Save #feedback to common "wrong answers." Teach that info next iteration to prevent misunderstandings from happening.Comphaze 9/25/2012 15:39 RT @writerswriting: Friend re tax doc: "Law docs are written in a way that people forget what they know." Holds true for much of academi ...ChangerCharles 9/25/2012 15:41 RT @SusanAbernethy2: Seven Dials in London, at the turn of the twentieth century http://t.co/evS79y8P http://fb.me/1wF7RxK6dChangerCharles 9/25/2012 15:44 RT @chronicle: RT @becksup: Student Poll from @artscigroup & @collegeboard shows many students still hung up on sticker price: http: ...Comphaze 9/25/2012 15:59 RT @joshmkim: The Cost of Not Reading "The Price of Inequality" http://t.co/u5z943aa http://bit.ly/SPc7c6Comphaze 9/25/2012 15:59 RT @ktenkely: ?@DanielPink: I'm on a crusade to honor every child as a unique individual http://t.co/XfpM82IF? http://www.indiegogo.com/thelearninggenomeproject?a=1232629Comphaze 9/25/2012 16:01 @juliedramsay But social media can be sooo dangerous. I know from experience!Comphaze 9/25/2012 18:40 RT @CarolJago: Teach "I Hear America Singing"? Here's a Zucotti Park essay to pair w/ Whitman http://t.co/dQotXlVZ http://nyti.ms/dkQNVmComphaze 9/25/2012 18:41 RT @ANNELAMOTT: Someone asked for tips on writing: so WRITE. Butt in chair. Sh**ty 1st draft. Bird by bird=short assignments. Ask for he ...Comphaze 9/25/2012 18:41 RT @LindaAragoni: Working #vocabulary = words used in speaking/writing when not prompted to use specific ones http://t.co/ulvUEdbj http://bit.ly/awROBEChangerCharles 9/25/2012 21:23 @LindaAragoni Certainly, but I refuse to let the market, strangles tho it may be, determine what is relevant, lest we all become DH-ists!ChangerCharles 9/25/2012 22:16 RT @AdamCorsini: "A History of London in 10 Archaeological Objects" Are you ready for the Tudors? http://t.co/dOTALq6X http://www.mymuseumoflondon.org.uk/blogs/blog/category/laarc/laarc-object-of-the-month/ChangerCharles 9/25/2012 22:16 RT @Medievalists: Article: Friction and Lubrication in Medieval Europe: The Emergence of Olive Oil as a Superior Agent http://t.co/RYuQFJAf http://bit.ly/URJYFVChangerCharles 9/25/2012 22:16 RT @jf_illuminator: Medieval Illuminators is out! http://t.co/ZLMh7yfN ? Top stories today via @Codexcalixtinfo @arqueoscience @RaggedRa ... http://goo.gl/XmwUVChangerCharles 9/25/2012 22:17 RT @DianeRavitch: Is This What School Reform Looks Like? http://t.co/3dZKbTKC via @wordpressdotcom http://wp.me/p2odLa-21zjuanahang 9/26/2012 4:17 RT @carlyraejepsen: Rehearsal tonight was amazing! Feels great to perform #KISS live! Hey @justinbieber let's hit the road already ;) ...juanahang 9/26/2012 4:17 RT @Rick_Bayless: Last night Chef Ricardo Mu?oz taught a class on how to make delicious fruity chiles en nogada http://t.co/dK3eJ4N6 http://moby.to/civ0wajuanahang 9/26/2012 4:18 RT @TylerFlorence: Roots, Leaves, Honey-Walnut Dressing, Cranberry Gel @WayfareTavern #SF http://t.co/0P9f0Nih http://instagr.am/p/QBf81AJzOb/juanahang 9/26/2012 4:18 RT @MARowland13: ?@TylerFlorence 20 yrs from now we'll have a whole generation of 20yr olds that are already Foodies w/sophisticated tas ...juanahang 9/26/2012 4:18 RT @ChefMichaelSmth: Ever heard mushrooms squeak? While sauteeing in a hot pan? They have a sound unlike any other vegetable> anyone. ...ChangerCharles 9/26/2012 4:19 RT @elleplus1: You can't spend 13 yrs portraying the current system as perfect, & expect sts to graduate w/ plans to mold & shap ...ChangerCharles 9/26/2012 14:13 @comphaze your avatar is a badge of acquiescence.Comphaze 9/26/2012 14:15 Whats that supposed to mean? RT @ChangerCharles: @comphaze your avatar is a badge of acquiescence.ChangerCharles 9/26/2012 14:17 @CompHaze It means that badge should say "I teach Literature as an assistant prof. on the faculty."Comphaze 9/26/2012 14:18 @ChangerCharles well, I think you would know better than anyone why it doesnt.ChangerCharles 9/26/2012 14:19 @CompHaze What I mean is there should have been another opportunity, more opportunities!Comphaze 9/26/2012 14:20 @ChangerCharles whatever. I have papers to grade and classes to prep.ChangerCharles 9/26/2012 14:21 @CompHaze While I have only the former. I am serf to another man's course.ChangerCharles 9/27/2012 2:23 RT @CharlesBivona: I quit my PhD program. I couldn't shoulder more debt. I just couldn't. @srtaintelectual @johntmarohn @profragsdale @c ...ChangerCharles 9/27/2012 2:24 RT @CharlesBivona: I've been seeing some scattered media coverage on the plight of adjuncts. We need a national adjunct strike. @profrag ...ChangerCharles 9/27/2012 2:25 RT @johntmarohn: @CharlesBivona @profragsdale @Claudiadreifus The white elephant-in-the-room for American universities/colleges is the h ...ChangerCharles 9/27/2012 2:29 RT @qui_oui: So, why might it take 6 years to finish a PhD? Read on and find out. http://t.co/POiSrCns #HigherEd #PhDchat http://bit.ly/VJ5dcnChangerCharles 9/27/2012 2:33 RT @jessicamadadg: Student Loans and the Education Bubble - Business Insider: I was early for a meeting on friday afternoon and fou... h ...ChangerCharles 9/27/2012 2:33 RT @Medievalists: Article: A Cold Case of Historical Bias http://t.co/f8KEgeeA #Nero http://bit.ly/UXpUStChangerCharles 9/27/2012 2:36 [Hand waving] Me! RT @HopeSteffen: The big question is, of course, do any of my twitter followers want to read about Edward the Confessor?

ChangerCharles 9/27/2012 2:36 http://wp.me/p2BfBv-3IChangerCharles 9/27/2012 2:36 RT @KarlSteel: Tendentious article about atheists' simplistic account of the medieval church, with my response in comments: http://t.co/ ...ChangerCharles 9/27/2012 2:36 RT @RoyalUniverse: Francis Drake returned from circumnavigating the Earth on 26 September 1580 and was knighted by Elizabeth I the follo ...ChangerCharles 9/27/2012 2:37 RT @RealLONDONFacts: #OnThisDay 1087 The coronation of William II took place at Westminster Abbey. He was killed by an arrow whilst hun ...ChangerCharles 9/27/2012 2:37 RT @ecampusnews: Story of the Day: Are public research universities in peril? http://t.co/Kef4JNRT #highered #college http://ow.ly/e0KXAChangerCharles 9/27/2012 2:38 Ha! RT: @chronicle: Cautious optimism in the MLA job market: http://t.co/xqVYrZUz http://chroni.cl/S8mR5oComphaze 9/27/2012 3:19 RT @Cantiague_Lead: Writing Workshop model liberates kids as writers. Check out my son's entry about a strong feeling! #educoach #cpchat ...ChangerCharles 9/27/2012 5:01 @CompHaze The academy is returning to its ancient vices once more. Have you not noticed all the talk of the stalephds?Comphaze 9/27/2012 5:05 @changercharles Please, just leave me alone, things are getting better for me.ChangerCharles 9/27/2012 5:10 @CompHaze: There once was a group that wanted to change the world called #omlaComphaze 9/27/2012 5:15 @ChangerCharles i dont want to #o anything. Just my life. Its been getting better.ChangerCharles 9/27/2012 5:20 @CompHaze But we could make a difference. There is still so much injustice, so much is that is on the wrong pathComphaze 9/27/2012 5:25 @ChangerCharles This time I need to worry about my own path. really. it was too much to bear. I lost too much, so did you.ChangerCharles 9/27/2012 5:30 @CompHaze Maybe that is the difference. I do not have anything left to lose.Comphaze 9/27/2012 5:35 @ChangerCharles Its called Freedom. #bobbymcgeeChangerCharles 9/27/2012 5:40 @CompHaze Je ne vous comprends pas.Comphaze 9/27/2012 5:45 @ChangerCharles its just a song. nevermind.ChangerCharles 9/27/2012 5:50 @CompHaze I recognized the reference, believe it or not, I just cannot comprehend you, your motives.Comphaze 9/27/2012 5:55 @ChangerCharles well, I still have something to lose. I have something coming that I dont want to lose.ChangerCharles 9/27/2012 6:01 @CompHaze #profdarcyComphaze 9/27/2012 6:05 @ChangerCharles StalkingChangerCharles 9/27/2012 6:10 @CompHaze I merely scroll through the tweets you circulate through the world.Comphaze 9/27/2012 6:15 @ChangerCharles StlakerChangerCharles 9/27/2012 6:20 @CompHaze Ha Ha! Your very typing betrays you. You want the world to know. Why else would you tweet it out?Comphaze 9/27/2012 6:25 @ChangerCharles Leave me alone!ChangerCharles 9/27/2012 6:30 @CompHaze Give it time. You will see. This is your destiny.Comphaze 9/27/2012 6:35 @ChangerCharles Why dont you tweet pictures of cats like everyone else? Get a hobby!ChangerCharles 9/27/2012 6:40 @CompHaze When was I ever like everyone else?

RT @jlnastal: current 2012 MLA joblist for rhetoric and composition studies geocoded at:http://t.co/xa6qNi4p #fycchat #gradgrind

RT @SusanAbernethy2: Claude, Duke of Guise at the Battle of Marignano, Italy 1515 AD. #France #Italy #history #warfarehttp://t.co/PdqcaWOv

ChangerCharles 9/27/2012 15:48 Provocative read! Cattle Call, or More Fun with Imperfect Analogies http://t.co/7sFOrMh0 http://ow.ly/e2wTIChangerCharles 9/27/2012 16:59 RT @SusanAbernethy2: Photo: Alexandra of Denmark with her mother Louise of Hesse-Kassel and her daughter Louise, Princess Royal and... h ...Comphaze 9/27/2012 21:53 RT @feministteacher: Sign up for my teaching feminism in HS webinar through @hghw for Wed, Oct. 24, 4-5:30 EST: http://t.co/QNuLRXfh #en ... http://bit.ly/NxwTgtChangerCharles 9/27/2012 21:56 RT @Sarah_Peverley: Thanks for the retweets. Here's another famous image from Langtoft's chronicle: King Arthur & the kingdoms he co ...ChangerCharles 9/27/2012 22:13 One cannot be too pessimistic when addressing young mediaeval graduate students about their prospects for the academic job marketChangerCharles 9/27/2012 22:13 That might be the greatest service we can do them, to dash their inflated hopes. Apologies, I have just completed grading 227 paragraphs.ChangerCharles 9/27/2012 22:33 We are not Technical Unis! MT @KelliMarshall: ?I majored in English and minored in history, just to make sure I was fully unemployable...Comphaze 9/28/2012 5:37 RT @teachingwthsoul: Interesting points...=>5 Ways To Handle Blogger Backlash http://t.co/x3TI7z0t via @danielnewmanUV http://goo.gl/fuHpQComphaze 9/28/2012 5:54 I know! RT @comPOSITIONblog: Thursday already? Yikes. This year is going entirely too quickly.ChangerCharles 9/29/2012 18:49 RT @worthlearning: CA For-Profit schools face new disclosure requirements. Why don't private or public colleges face same rules?: http:/ ...ChangerCharles 9/29/2012 18:50 RT @thatcarlygirl: Profs: Assigning readings of your own work doesn't have the effect I think you'd like. Unless you're going for disres ...ChangerCharles 9/29/2012 18:51 RT @jf_illuminator: Saint Louis Manuscripta conference is approaching http://t.co/TBhoIaoo http://goo.gl/Kl3ByChangerCharles 9/29/2012 18:51 RT @jf_illuminator: 'Une nouvelle vie pour les manuscrits de Chartres' http://t.co/7C1tM7U3 http://goo.gl/RnnAtComphaze 9/29/2012 18:54 RT @writerswriting: "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, / there is a field. I'll meet you there." ~RumiComphaze 9/29/2012 18:55 RT @LindaAragoni: Think of #writing as performance: have #objectives for both process & products.juanahang 9/29/2012 18:58 RT @FoodNetworkCA: Hope to see you around town today too! RT @CulinaryWannaB: @FoodNetworkCA hope to see you around town today! #okanaga ...juanahang 9/29/2012 18:59 Sometimes I wonder where my old tweeps went. So many good times. You dudes still out there?juanahang 9/29/2012 18:59 RT @Rick_Bayless: Prep for my demo at Chicago Gourmet! Start at noon. http://t.co/yZUw2tBu http://moby.to/2qqky3juanahang 9/29/2012 19:02 RT @InYouILove: TODAY IS THE DAY!!!! @carlyraejepsen @justinbieber Y'ALL READY????? #BELIEVEtour <3juanahang 9/29/2012 19:02 RT @carlyraejepsen: First day of TOUR! Start it right. Start it poolside! Yup. http://t.co/jZAlbh3W http://instagr.am/p/QKnwy6KVma/ChangerCharles 9/30/2012 22:09 RT @Medievalists: Article: Rosslyn Chapel: A Legacy in Stone http://t.co/37GpucyA #AllRequestSunday #Templars http://www.medievalists.net/2011/04/17/rosslyn-chapel-a-legacy-in-stone/ChangerCharles 9/30/2012 22:09 RT @LeVostreGC: Walter wolde totallye have charged Griselda extra luggage fees. #clerkstaleairtravelChangerCharles 9/30/2012 22:10 RT @qui_oui: On New College of the Humanities: "Building an infrastructure on personalities is usually a bad idea" http://t.co/il2DdMxi ... http://bit.ly/S1qMAYChangerCharles 9/30/2012 22:11 RT @emvidal: Richard III http://t.co/bl4An49W #plantagenets #murder #crime #mystery #uk #england #medieval http://teaattrianon.forumotion.com/t292-ChangerCharles 9/30/2012 22:11 RT @medievalbook: Medieval Fairs: an archaeologist?s approach: This paper intends to explore some of the possib... http://t.co/vdrD0Gqy ... http://bit.ly/V2IdaAChangerCharles 9/30/2012 22:11 RT @history_book: The Story of England by Robert Manning of Brunne, AD 1338: Volume 2 - Robert Manning - Cambridge University Press. htt ...ChangerCharles 9/30/2012 22:12 RT @MedievalFinds: The only locations in England where a substantial amounts of #medieval pilgrim badges have been found on land are Nor ...ChangerCharles 9/30/2012 22:12 True?? "@worthlearning: OECD report argues that higher education is actually helping to fix the global recession: http://t.co/W7tPMlZg" http://bit.ly/PexwL3ChangerCharles 9/30/2012 22:13 RT @EducatorMusing: You gotta read this! #edchat #in #edreform #parenttrigger Jersey Jazzman: Won't Back Down II: The Sequel http://t.co ...ChangerCharles 10/1/2012 6:17 RT @The_book_girl: New California Law Requires Greater Disclosure Of #4Profit College Performance http://t.co/ELsUcaXI #highered @MikeHeXt http://www.publicadvocates.org/press-releases/new-california-law-requires-greater-disclosure-of-for-profit-college-and-vocational-sChangerCharles 10/1/2012 6:17 RT @SaintSisterSlut: Marie of Guise, Queen of Scotland | Saints, Sisters, and Sluts http://t.co/KBy67oA0 http://bit.ly/QgX3FCComphaze 10/1/2012 6:18 RT @ANNELAMOTT: Ueland:?Work freely & rollickingly. Mentally (at least 3 or 4 times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeer ...Comphaze 10/1/2012 6:19 RT @ANNELAMOTT: Brenda Ueland: "Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the ac ...Comphaze 10/1/2012 6:20 RT @creativecommons: Well done. California passes groundbreaking open textbook legislation - http://t.co/8y7NHU81 #opentextbooks http://goo.gl/s6h25Comphaze 10/1/2012 6:20 RT @readywriting: The Argument Sketch | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/FXoT6AhK Ridiculousness needs to be met with some Python #highered ... http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/college-ready-writing/argument-sketch#.UGT59Id_-sc.twitterComphaze 10/1/2012 6:22 RT @sisypheantask: I really wish educators would stop using the word "freshman"Comphaze 10/1/2012 6:24 RT @MiaZamoraPhD: RT@writingproject: helping youth have sense of agency in writing, composing, &creating is critical 4 civic engagem ...Comphaze 10/1/2012 6:24 RT @LindaAragoni: Once person is proficient in one #genre, learning to #write in second is a matter of seeing what's similar or different.Comphaze 10/1/2012 6:25 RT @danielle6849: Eight Things Skilled Teachers Think, Say, and Do http://t.co/QDPYJYKy Good tips #edchat #njed http://zite.to/RlVBU7ChangerCharles 10/1/2012 6:38 @The_book_girl @worthlearning The fraud of all our academic institutions should be the subject of a grand inquiry IMHO. #higheredChangerCharles 10/1/2012 6:48 @The_book_girl @worthlearning the level of fraud I perceive is far more fundamental.

ChangerCharles 10/1/2012 16:02ChangerCharles 10/1/2012 16:09 @worthlearning @the_book_girl Yes, the fraud or at least malfeasance goes even deeper, exploitation of adjuncts, tuition costs/financ aidjuanahang 10/1/2012 16:11 RT @ChefMichaelSmth: Loving my new show Chef Michael's Kitchen? Here's where ya can find this season's recipes at FoodNetwork.ca> htt ...ChangerCharles 10/1/2012 16:26 @worthlearning @The_book_girl Is it not about time we begin a frank discussion abt the improprieties of #highered? Hashtag #fraueduComphaze 10/1/2012 16:26 RT @MiaZamoraPhD: The Writing Revolution - The Atlantic http://t.co/Is1HaY9e #highered #edchat #amwriting #engchat http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/10/the-writing-revolution/309090/#.UGnCtyrQxnU.twitterComphaze 10/1/2012 16:26 RT @MiaZamoraPhD: What I Write - National Writing Project http://t.co/ljkNAXHm. #amwriting #books #writing @kuwp http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/614?x-t=sites_eosChangerCharles 10/1/2012 16:27 RT @martine_devos: #Pew Report shows record of 20% of US households now owe #studentloan #debt, w/ burden greatest for young & poor. ...juanahang 10/1/2012 16:28 RT @KidChefEliana: Kid Chef Eliana visits Sticky's Finger Joint in NYC. They were featured on ABC's The Chew recently and The Food... ht ...ChangerCharles 10/1/2012 17:52 @The_book_girl Am currently employd by #4profit & indignities have been only comparable since my expltation is explicit, contactual #fraueduChangerCharles 10/1/2012 20:49 @worthlearning @The_book_girl yes, we need to start asking the hard questions of our good institutions as well #biggerfish2fry #fraueduChangerCharles 10/1/2012 20:59 @The_book_girl @worthlearning I would not contest the scams of which you speak. The problems of #highered only begin with obvious #fraueduChangerCharles 10/1/2012 21:02 @The_book_girl @worthlearning not always, here I would contend you direct your gaze to commercial markets that use diplomas like tokens.ChangerCharles 10/2/2012 0:10 @The_book_girl What does that mean? I am both highly educated & a serf of online highered. I would prefer otherwise. #fraueduChangerCharles 10/2/2012 1:00 RT @worthlearning: @The_book_girl @ChangerCharles I guess my view is that, behind the curtain, private schools are profit centers. Just ...ChangerCharles 10/2/2012 11:32 RT @mzmelisende: Scissors or Sword? The Symbolism of a Medieval Haircut | History Today: http://t.co/LiD0kd2w via @HistoryToday http://www.historytoday.com/simon-coates/scissors-or-sword-symbolism-medieval-haircut#.UGrLSIbv59E.twitterChangerCharles 10/2/2012 11:40 RT @jessicamadadg: Is College a Lousy Investment?: Student loans are widely available and subsidized by the government, which makes... h ...ChangerCharles 10/2/2012 11:41 RT @OntheTudorTrail: On this day in 1452, Richard Plantagenet was born at Fotheringhay Castle, the youngest son of Richard, Duke of York ...ChangerCharles 10/2/2012 11:44 @The_book_girl Ah, I see. I know what it's like to be rolled over by those cart wheels. My sympathies.ChangerCharles 10/2/2012 11:45 @The_book_girl I see. But they could not silence you!ChangerCharles 10/2/2012 15:57 RT @The_book_girl: @ChangerCharles it's tough when every small scrap of idealism you've managed to retain by early middle-age has the li ...ChangerCharles 10/2/2012 16:09 @The_book_girl It sounds like the academy has failed you (and the rest of us) on many levels. My own PhD is growing stale.ChangerCharles 10/2/2012 16:25 @The_book_girl I will agree with you there, though, in my exp., the former does not always lead to the consequences we anticipate.ChangerCharles 10/2/2012 16:35 @The_book_girl But, my Dear Lady, the ivory tower holds my Holy Grail, and the sweet wine of my scholarly pursuit.ChangerCharles 10/2/2012 17:21 @The_book_girl Ah, the past. So much I've lost. And yet, I am a Medievalist. The past is my sole mistress.ChangerCharles 10/2/2012 17:29 @The_book_girl Recently, I have been toying with the idea of returning to the fight. #fraueduChangerCharles 10/2/2012 17:32 @The_book_girl in fact, just today, I encountered a job listing that called for a medievalist stateside. Tempting!ChangerCharles 10/2/2012 17:34 @The_book_girl #occupy, you say? It is funny that you should suggest that.ChangerCharles 10/2/2012 17:45 @The_book_girl Let me just say that your suggestion strikes more than one chord on the organ in the cathedral in my brain!ChangerCharles 10/4/2012 2:51 RT @jessicamadadg: US students face worst debt and job prospects ever: ... still not culturally normative." Trillion dollar problem... h ...ChangerCharles 10/4/2012 2:52 RT @candidamoss: #Debates are like Christmas for the politically interested. You wait forever and they're a disappointment.ChangerCharles 10/4/2012 4:03 RT @sozmore: Sayyida al Hurra was a pirate queen equal in power to the famous Barbarossa. http://t.co/W91FMuPR http://fb.me/VHvAzes9

ChangerCharles 10/4/2012 4:03 http://wp.me/p2M44W-p8ChangerCharles 10/4/2012 4:04 RT @medievalbook: Textile and Embroidered Bookbindings of Medieval England and France: These are rich, elaborat... http://t.co/Wrihf31W ... http://bit.ly/QtzpWAComphaze 10/4/2012 7:26 RT @sbcc_cjjohnston: I count staples (essays) the way some people watch clocks.Comphaze 10/4/2012 7:27 RT @RealGeoffBarton: From another poet: RT @IanBauckham: National Poetry Day: The Windhover http://t.co/JgIuatp4 http://bit.ly/bHphVBComphaze 10/5/2012 2:43 RT @feministteacher: Sign up for my teaching feminism in HS webinar with @hghw Wed. Oct. 24 4-5:30 EST http://t.co/QNuLRXfh #engchat #ss ... http://bit.ly/NxwTgtComphaze 10/5/2012 2:45 RT @LFan12: Love dressing up, one of my fav parts of teaching. http://t.co/GlfekYQ2 http://twitter.com/LFan12/status/253840774658154496/photo/1Comphaze 10/5/2012 2:47 @LFan12 me, too, though I had to admit it. Cute outfit!Comphaze 10/5/2012 2:48 RT @GdnHigherEd: Have your say: Teaching and transferring life skills to students? #Helivechat Friday 5 Oct at 12 BST http://t.co/oyiB6d ...Comphaze 10/5/2012 2:49 RT @randomhouse: RT @text_publishing: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: 'I'd never marry you, Mr Darcy...wait, you live HERE?' #10wordbooksChangerCharles 10/6/2012 6:37 RT @The_book_girl: Commitment to #Transparency: Early Adopters Examine the #FinancialAid Shopping Sheet | #highered #edu http://t.co/d3 ...ChangerCharles 10/6/2012 6:37 RT @jessicamadadg: Future Undergrads: Colleges are Cyber-Stalking You and There's Nothing You ...: ... to students is to be smart a... h ...ChangerCharles 10/6/2012 6:39 At least you have your kids! #pml "@Chick_Witch: Morning twirld. The kids are asleep and I'm awake. Tis a cruel world. #missLieIns"ChangerCharles 10/6/2012 6:39 RT @medievalbook: Ten Medieval Podcasts: Here are ten podcasts/radio programs you can listen to which offer gre... http://t.co/zQM6k1Af ... http://bit.ly/Wxs2AjChangerCharles 10/6/2012 6:40 RT @sozmore: Interview w/ Sarah Gristwood author of Blood Sisters: The Hidden Lives of the Women behind the War of the Roses.... http:// ...ChangerCharles 10/6/2012 6:41 RT @GlobalHigherEd: Is higher learning due for a little re-education? A special project from @globeandmail #reeducation http://t.co/ErmG ...ChangerCharles 10/8/2012 0:30 RT @Medievalists: Article: How Not to (Re)Write World History: Gavin Menzies and the Chinese Discovery of America http://t.co/jEdB6stQ # ... http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/07/how-not-to-rewrite-world-history-gavin-menzies-and-the-chinese-discovery-of-america/ChangerCharles 10/8/2012 0:30 RT @Medievalists: Article: What Can Medieval Spain Teach Us about Muslim-Jewish Relations? http://t.co/5xgAtsvM #AllRequestSunday http://www.medievalists.net/2010/12/01/what-can-medieval-spain-teach-us-about-muslim-jewish-relations/ChangerCharles 10/8/2012 0:30 RT @audreywatters: The latest episode of @stevehargadon and my weekly ed-tech podcast http://t.co/v5P5Vm3C http://hackeducation.com/2012/10/07/podcast-10-5-2012/ChangerCharles 10/8/2012 0:30 RT @blmedieval: Describing Medieval Manuscripts http://t.co/kcGGcWux http://bit.ly/Q6MwxgChangerCharles 10/8/2012 0:31 RT @VCVaileNFM: The more I see my fellow colleagues being harassed, the more I understand that t...: The more I see my fellow co... http ...ChangerCharles 10/8/2012 0:31 RT @worthlearning: What they're saying: This week in the debate on the value of #college http://t.co/HX4mLaur http://bit.ly/Q4JKYfChangerCharles 10/8/2012 0:38 RT @worthlearning: It's not only students from for-profit schools drowning in debt. Public university grads are also getting hammered ht ...ChangerCharles 10/8/2012 0:39 RT @EHChalus: A treasure trove of images: London Metropolitan Archives photostream: http://t.co/MxQsob0p #twitterstorians http://bit.ly/RBb7M2ChangerCharles 10/8/2012 0:39 RT @worthlearning: 2012 - the year that colleges first started freezing or, in some cases, even cutting #tuition http://t.co/YMS9yJJq http://bit.ly/Ta3FEu

ChangerCharles 10/8/2012 0:39 http://thefreelancehistorywriter.com/2012/10/06/wells-cathedral/ChangerCharles 10/8/2012 0:40 RT @LeVostreGC: Whanne Sauron did become a famous Hollywoode producere, he chaunged the name of hys fortress to Minas Mogul.ChangerCharles 10/8/2012 0:40 RT @Sarah_Peverley: Another set of maidens, this time with a gittern (?) for @ClaudiaFunder who is looking for lute images: BL Royal 16 ...ChangerCharles 10/8/2012 0:40 RT @templar_forum: I want to find some good medieval re-enactment groups - suggestions?Comphaze 10/8/2012 2:00 @ChangerCharles not necessarily. And anyway I believe the point is that we just make sure we stay relevant.Comphaze 10/8/2012 2:22 RT @danielle6849: Socratic Circle Lesson and Rubrics http://t.co/TueG7oKr Whoot! Whoot! #edchat #engchat http://zite.to/QOnhROComphaze 10/8/2012 2:26 RT @comPOSITIONblog: comPOSITION: Listening to the Lack: The Importance of Remembering How We Learned to Learn http://t.co/bbWNemHs #fyc ... http://np-composition.blogspot.com/2012/10/listening-to-lack.html?spref=twComphaze 10/8/2012 4:08 Time to kick a little grading behind #behindinmygrading :(ChangerCharles 10/9/2012 14:46 RT @AnneBoleynFiles: 9 October 1514 ? The Wedding of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor: On 9th October 1514, the eighteen year-old M... ...ChangerCharles 10/10/2012 2:34 RT @audreywatters: Times like these make me sing the doom song http://t.co/nqYKXDyK http://youtu.be/fqcn_TPu4qQChangerCharles 10/10/2012 2:34 RT @audreywatters: That's Pearson's Adrian Sannier MT @ddmeyer: Top tier uni profs will teach MOOCs & state college profs will be th ...

RT @TheTudorDynasty: Question for you all.What symbols or objects would you associate with Anne Boleyn?

RT @SusanAbernethy2: My latest post: Marie of Guise, Queen of #Scotland and mother of Mary Queen of Scots.http://t.co/dfp6duiv

RT @SusanAbernethy2: A short history of Wells Cathedral, Wells, England.http://t.co/eI0Pt3Tm http://t.co/4imlt8yR

ChangerCharles 10/10/2012 2:39 ? "@CharlesBivona: RT @democracyatwrk: We can overcome the divisions between us by institutionalizing change. #p2 #ows"ChangerCharles 10/10/2012 2:39 RT @CharlesBivona: This! RT @democracyatwrk: We need to overcome power at the top. Workers should be the masters of their own lives. MT ...juanahang 10/10/2012 5:00 RT @britneyspears: I am both honored and humbled to take part in the GRAMMY salute to Whitney Houston on Thursday... She'll always be 1 ...ChangerCharles 10/10/2012 5:05 RT @medievalbook: Botticelli?s Primavera and the Poetic Imagination of Italian Renaissance Art: The Primavera i... http://t.co/XoTerTvs ... http://bit.ly/TtWWLfChangerCharles 10/10/2012 5:07 RT @jessicamadadg: HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE - PJ Media: October 9, 2012. HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The tuition itself i... h ...ChangerCharles 10/10/2012 5:07 RT @ShellTerrell: What Are We Measuring in Education? http://t.co/yC6VKOrC #cpchat #edreform http://bit.ly/R6c3oIChangerCharles 10/10/2012 16:11 All these MLA job calls that have "digital humanities" appended to them. Am I to presume that my Twitter account qualifies me?ChangerCharles 10/10/2012 16:11 Some serpent of suspicion tells me that "digital humanities" is another form of weeding out candidates for age!ChangerCharles 10/10/2012 16:13 Lord knows we would not want an academic who did not know how to wield an account that essentially works like Facebook.ChangerCharles 10/10/2012 16:13 To think that departments that value this kind of nonsense would be interested in my insights into Chr?tien is preposterous.ChangerCharles 10/10/2012 16:15 No, this is clearly abt the liberal arts college seeing their last hope being to link their inquiry with the rhetoric of scientific progressComphaze 10/10/2012 23:30 Tomorrows the day I get observed, supposedly every new parttimer gets it. Advice? #adjuncthellComphaze 10/10/2012 23:35 Of course, the fact that #profdarcy is doing the observation makes matters...worseComphaze 10/10/2012 23:40 Can I really worry abt my boardwork while his cerulean blues are piercing me? Ugh, Im tweetign like a teenager!ChangerCharles 10/11/2012 15:32 RT @CathyNDavidson: Join us! Webinar @CathyNDavidson "Changing Higher Education to Change the World" at 1pm ET #connectedlearning http:/ ...Comphaze 10/11/2012 16:56 5 minutes till observation by #profdarcy. Wish me luck! Ill need it after a morning like this one #coffeeonfirstoutfit #inkonsecond

ChangerCharles 10/11/2012 17:36 http://wp.me/p2BfBv-5oChangerCharles 10/11/2012 18:03 @susanabernethy2 Happy to be of twassistance, m'lady.juanahang 10/11/2012 18:05 RT @dinnerwithjulie: What are your favourite things to eat in Calgary? #yyc #yycfoodjuanahang 10/11/2012 18:05 RT @Rick_Bayless: Chef Andres is working on a new dish for marisqueria that includes octopus http://t.co/ZXvZSCN3 http://moby.to/kxk0irjuanahang 10/11/2012 18:05 RT @foodiejournal: Retweet for your chance to win a copy of Emeril's newest cookbook! Giveaway ends at 8 pm. http://t.co/eNtISJ8j #TheFo ... http://thefoodiejournal.comjuanahang 10/11/2012 18:05 RT @ChefCorbin: Hey it's thursday! Do you know what that means? It's @RestoTakeover night! Make sure to tune in tonight at 9pm on @FoodN ...ChangerCharles 10/12/2012 2:37 RT @tudortutor: "Let's single out Catholicism to wind up this debate. I'm Edward VI and I approve this message."Comphaze 10/12/2012 5:57 ugh. cant sleep! #observationhellComphaze 10/12/2012 5:58 FML, well, I think thats the end of my taechin g at this school. in case you were wondring, the observation did not go well #lessonfailComphaze 10/12/2012 5:59 So in honor of the veep debate, we were analyzing the rheotoric of an article abt the election. Good idea, rt?Comphaze 10/12/2012 6:11 everything going fine, basically looking for main idea, major arguments, etc. in an article abt the candidate?s positions on forign policyComphaze 10/12/2012 6:15 Sorry my typing i s breaking dowwn a little. I?m so tired. #miserabledayComphaze 10/12/2012 6:20 So then this student starts sayign offfensive things about the election, about Muslimsjuanahang 10/12/2012 6:23 RT @britneyspears: Backstage at The Whitney Houston Tribute. Such a solemn occasion. Jason's doing his best to put a smile on my face. h ...Comphaze 10/12/2012 6:25 I tried to re-direct with some boardwork, getting people to come up and identify major rhetorical moves in the articleChangerCharles 10/12/2012 6:30 RT @RoyalUniverse: Edward VI, son of Henry VIII, was born on 12 October 1537; his mother, Jane Seymour, died a few days laterComphaze 10/12/2012 6:30 But the student persisted. Couldnt shut up about it, getting out of hand, I was losing cntrl. i tried calling on other studentsComphaze 10/12/2012 6:35 Bu they were too upset too. A couple fo them walked outComphaze 10/12/2012 6:40 And then, I was just staring at #profdarcy like I was some kind of doltComphaze 10/12/2012 6:45 Then, #profdarcy gets up and starts saying this story abt a muslim student he met who was interested in impressions of his faith in the USComphaze 10/12/2012 6:55 But this kid was into medieval history and totally loved #profdarcy bc how can yuo notComphaze 10/12/2012 7:02 So he saved me and ruined me at the same time. then I did what anybody wold do +Comphaze 10/12/2012 7:06 I thru up in the wastebasket in the parttimers office and collapsed on the chesterfiedlComphaze 10/12/2012 7:11 And Profdarcy, tactfully, said nothing. At all. He just left. Left campus in his shiny Prius.Comphaze 10/12/2012 7:31 As a result, something tells me the wrtiing center wil be closed for busness tomorrow.ChangerCharles 10/12/2012 21:29 Attempting to get retired profs to update my moldy letters of rec for my #stalephd may be the death of me. Academia favours the newly mintedjuanahang 10/15/2012 16:23 RT @kennychesney: ?@sammyhagar: Best birthday present ever = fed by @emeril, concert by @kennychesney. Outta sight! http://t.co/wF93hTSZ? http://youtu.be/8A_247Dyl3oChangerCharles 10/16/2012 14:50 My quest complete, I was able to summon one of my recommenders from the grave of retirement to update his dusty account of my virtues.ChangerCharles 10/16/2012 14:52 So now, stale though my PhD may be, I can apply for several jobs. Not surprisingly the interviews will be conducted, where else?ChangerCharles 10/16/2012 14:59 RT @historianspeaks: @qui_oui Indeed, often we care little about the system of exploiting Ph.D.'s as adjuncts and failing to acknowledge ...ChangerCharles 10/16/2012 14:59 RT @sixteenthCgirl: At Hampton Court today, I was lucky enough to go behind the scenes and see this fabulous replica of Henry VIII's cro ...ChangerCharles 10/16/2012 15:01 RT @MedievalMss: A beautiful landscape scene of Joseph shepherding a flock of sheep under the watchful eye of Zulaykh?'s servants. http: ...ChangerCharles 10/16/2012 16:49 What does it mean when searching the list of fac. positions, you no longer limit the query by proximity to your home, family, past?ChangerCharles 10/17/2012 12:23 Why not make the caste system of the modern day University official? #frauedu http://t.co/XiceOjou http://chronicle.com/article/2-Tracks-for-Faculty/135050/Comphaze 10/17/2012 13:33 Passed #profdarcy in the halls several times since that debacle of an observation. Couldnt even raise my face to greet him.Comphaze 10/17/2012 13:37 But then while I was browsing around on the one working computer in the Writing Center, I came across an ad for a job +Comphaze 10/17/2012 13:43 a full time lecturer position HERE with duties in the Writing Center. This is MY job. But the only thing I cant figure out is +Comphaze 10/17/2012 13:47 Why didnt #profdarcy say anything abt this to me? He must know how much I want it?Comphaze 10/17/2012 13:52 maybe he was just trying to avoid any show of impropriety. I dont know but Im going crazy! This is what Ive been waiting for!ChangerCharles 10/17/2012 16:38 Yes, let us throw out centuries of scholarship & let our insecurities drive us to become data scientists http://t.co/Qbmreh6p http://ow.ly/eyjewChangerCharles 10/18/2012 17:28 Deigned to send in my materials to several job postings this year. Casting lots like fishing lines.ChangerCharles 10/18/2012 17:29 Applied for some far from this place. I do not hold much hope for my prospects. My serfdom is no doubt my fate.ChangerCharles 10/18/2012 17:29 But perhaps my calling is to storm the gates rather than walk through the portcullis.juanahang 10/18/2012 17:33 RT @FoodNetworkCA: Recipe of the Day: Classic Battenburg Cake http://t.co/qOP6lxr9 #RecipetoRiches #Dessert http://foodtv.ca/eAhzAChangerCharles 10/22/2012 8:51 RT @jessicamadadg: Defaulting on loans trending on campus: WASHINGTON - More than 9,500 students from Minnesota's colleges and univ... h ...ChangerCharles 10/22/2012 16:07 Digital humanities tries to be to literary studies what neuroscience is to psychoanalysis! #dhChangerCharles 10/22/2012 16:12 This job has digital humanities in the cal. Will my Twitter account suffice? Or do I need a blogger? An Instergram?ChangerCharles 10/22/2012 16:21 RT @dgolumbia: @mkirschenbaum if someone doesn't like PhD in English, fine; do something else. don't like non-profs telling English it " ...ChangerCharles 10/22/2012 16:22 RT @dgolumbia: @mkirschenbaum in part because Boards etc. looking for reasons to cut PhD programs, and those are good onesChangerCharles 10/22/2012 16:25 That decides it. From now on, I must establish my digital humanities credentials. I assume my Twitter fellows will support this assertion.ChangerCharles 10/22/2012 17:46 At what cost shall we upgrade our profession? #dhChangerCharles 10/22/2012 17:49 RT @xianb8: Why we will win the #edpolicy & #edreform debate: with courage, truth will triumph over well-funded propaganda.ChangerCharles 10/22/2012 17:55 I am starting to feel the limitations of the 140 chars. Peasant shoes. & #edreform needs a battlement. Perhaps a blog? An Etsy? Kickstarter?ChangerCharles 10/22/2012 17:55 Sorry, not an Etsy. That was silly.Comphaze 10/22/2012 19:08 just havent been able to get myself to tweet lately. I pass #profdarcy in the halls and he says nothing but hello, sheepishlyChangerCharles 10/22/2012 19:11 RT @campusprogress: CAMPUS INFORMER: University of Phoenix Closing 115 Locations; Florida Passes Race-Based Student Achievement Plan htt ...ChangerCharles 10/22/2012 19:11 That might be bad for all.ChangerCharles 10/22/2012 19:12 I was referring to the closing of the campuses, not the Race-Based plan.ChangerCharles 10/22/2012 19:14 RT @Sarah_Peverley: Chaucer's tomb is in Westminster Abbey, sadly it isn't medieval. It dates from 1556. More info here http://t.co/RdBK ...ChangerCharles 10/22/2012 19:14 RT @Sarah_Peverley: Better images of the Ellesmere manuscript can be found here http://t.co/78KAZBEB http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/hehweb/EL26C9.htmlComphaze 10/23/2012 2:53 RT @writerswriting: #teachread RT @bigapplphil2k12: @rockitt185 it helped me to ask myself "What do I want them to know? & How can I ...ChangerCharles 10/23/2012 16:24 To establish my #digitalhumanities #dh credibility, I must extend beyond my Twittering; therefore, I have begun constructing a Tumblrjuanahang 10/23/2012 16:28 Hey, hey, friends of the Twitter persuasion, it's me again, feeling like Twriting because I've suddenly been yanked back into teachingjuanahang 10/23/2012 16:29 Hi, evryone, Hi, hi, hi! No I didn't move to Borneo! Was just busy being a sous chef of adverts& learning up to be a line cook!juanahang 10/23/2012 16:34 Actually I've started out in that job, too. I'm trying to get the team to call me the Iron(ic) Chef. Awesome, eh?juanahang 10/23/2012 16:35 @rinsecutchop2 Thanks for askin? I?m teaching suddenly because a prof at my old place up ?n died (no disrespect) mid semesterjuanahang 10/23/2012 16:35 They called up their ol? bud John to fill in for the late Phd and I obliged. Restaurant is being cool w/my sched, toojuanahang 10/23/2012 16:35 ?Ironic? doesn?t half cover it! Now that I care naught for hackademe I have a job on silver platter!juanahang 10/23/2012 16:38 Gear-change: Grading papers last night. Holding a real messy one. Unconsciously reach to wipe hand on apron.juanahang 10/23/2012 16:50 Wowzer. They treat a feller nice in academe if he?s saving their bacon. Never knew it could be so swanque.ChangerCharles 10/24/2012 3:16 Who Is Doing DH? http://t.co/mDUXCr0s If no one knows, then clearly I am also doing DH. :) http://ow.ly/eICkAComphaze 10/24/2012 23:40 Ive decided that writing awk. on all these papers does not help students, but does my writing "syntax" help all that much more?Comphaze 10/25/2012 0:15 Whenever I see the word "clearly" in a students paper, I know that what follows will be anything but.ChangerCharles 10/25/2012 5:23 RT @jessicamadadg: Student Loans Bear 'Uncanny Resemblance' to Subprime Crisis ...: Techniques currently used by student loan lende... h ...ChangerCharles 10/25/2012 21:56 Tho I am limited to correcting the grammar, I must say the paper assignments from this instructor are insipid. Compare Contrast in college?Comphaze 10/26/2012 17:54 RT @tedwardhowell: reading papers and commenting on the computer for the first time. I hate it! Why did I agree to this! #fbComphaze 10/26/2012 17:56 @csippy dont constraints=freedom, inspiration, catalytic agents?Comphaze 10/26/2012 17:56 RT @shrikale: Real understanding is going to take rewiring my brain to fit it to the world, and not try to fit the world to my model of it.juanahang 10/29/2012 3:41 I wundr if any of my old buddies from Twitts are still online. Been so long sinz I heard from any of them.juanahang 10/29/2012 3:42 Was a time when we tweetled every day. Then, nothin. Spose I'm to blame for that. #yeahrightjuanahang 10/29/2012 3:42 RT @britneyspears: Saw my teens perform on the live stage for the 1st time today. So Wow! Never forget that great things come in small p ...Comphaze 10/29/2012 5:54 RT @warhetor: @sisypheantask And how can you teach fyc w/o lit? Yes, I assigned a rhetorical analysis on a film, but the same concepts a ...Comphaze 10/29/2012 5:55 RT @teachingwthsoul: ?@iEducator: How to Fill an iPad with Free E-books from Project Gutenberg http://t.co/Wb1ClXXl? #ntchat http://bit.ly/S67nzMChangerCharles 10/29/2012 8:25 The sleeplessness of having lost what is so dear you cannot fathom life without it -- is blank, cold -- and recedes not into drowsinessChangerCharles 10/29/2012 13:30 I have decided to move the forces onto the DH chess board with a Tumblr of my hewn by my own hands as I seek both #higheredreform and a jobChangerCharles 10/29/2012 13:40 Announcing a new site dedicated to higher ed reform & the rights of adjunct labor! http://t.co/4etbNtBW Pls. RT! http://UniChange.tumblr.comComphaze 10/29/2012 15:16 Materials almost ready to go. Now tell me, do I ask #profdarcy for a letter of rec? Still hasnt spoken to me since the apocalyobservation!ChangerCharles 10/29/2012 17:46 #edreform See the new battlement for changing higher education http://t.co/380Dajgy http://unichange.tumblr.com/ChangerCharles 10/29/2012 20:01 A new site for #highered reform! Come and see: http://t.co/380Dajgy http://unichange.tumblr.com/juanahang 10/30/2012 3:30 Teachng by day, slinging polenta by night. I'm a PoMo super hero. Super Hera? Super Zeus? PUnchy!juanahang 10/30/2012 3:35 Weird, but cooking countrabalances teaching nicely. Brain daytimes. Body nighttimes. I DO sleep like a sack of rice.juanahang 10/30/2012 3:45 Even the studnets are grateful. I?m Sully Sullenberger and FDNY all in one. Or the Toronto equivalent.ChangerCharles 10/30/2012 6:00 RT @SusanAbernethy2: Photo of Rumeli Castle turret, Istanbul, Turkey, 15th C. http://t.co/7VZNBHGX http://fb.me/LuRjX0QG

RT @SusanAbernethy2: A short history of Wells Cathedral from The Freelance History Writer.http://t.co/DYzzeHjh

juanahang 10/30/2012 18:36 Originally they said I?d be teaching through Dec. only, but today they asked thru May? Sure, why not!juanahang 10/30/2012 18:41 All the late night agonizing over teaching here before; now they?re beggin? me to stay! Turn, ye Wheel of Fate, turn!juanahang 10/30/2012 18:47 Yeah, because I waz an emergency hire it?s some kind of special deal; better for them better for me.juanahang 10/30/2012 18:50 Beuroucaracy aside, students are great, right? When they?re engaged. Seems like I?m engaging ?em somehow. shrugjuanahang 10/30/2012 19:01 Here?s how teaching?s working: Expectations for me are so low that I?m super relaxed. Goin with gut. For the win!juanahang 10/30/2012 19:11 For thje record: after a (say it! say it!) Real Job, professoring?s stress is negligable. Cooking?s calmed me.juanahang 10/31/2012 4:04 Somewhere out there, my hooting hombres -- but where didja go?ChangerCharles 10/31/2012 7:22 After countless comma splices and misplaced modifiers, only to turn to my lonely cell, I must ask, what was all this fuss about?juanahang 10/31/2012 7:24 @ChangerCharles Dude!!! There you be! WhaZZZZZZZUP!!!ChangerCharles 10/31/2012 7:25 @juanahang I understand you only so far as, "Dude." What language is this?juanahang 10/31/2012 7:26 @changercharles You don't have any clew who this is, do you?ChangerCharles 10/31/2012 7:27 @juanahang Are you one of my students? Because it is against the explicit policy of the master syllabus for students to contact the grader.juanahang 10/31/2012 7:27 @changercharles Oh, man, you haven't changed uno bit!! Is Hazel around somewherez?ChangerCharles 10/31/2012 7:28 @juanahang Identify yourself. What mode of blaggard are you?juanahang 10/31/2012 7:30 @changercharles CharlieChaucer, it's me? COme on! John? Your boy! Partner!ChangerCharles 10/31/2012 7:31 @juanahang Whether you are or not, that is a matter for the past.juanahang 10/31/2012 7:32 @changercharles Oh so it's not that you didn't recognize me, you just don't want to acKNOWledge me. All right. Whatevs.ChangerCharles 10/31/2012 7:32 RT @juanahang Whatevs.juanahang 10/31/2012 7:33 @changercharles Woh, woh, woh, no need to have a snark attack. I can take a hintola!juanahang 10/31/2012 7:34 @changercharles So where is haze, BTW? Is she online somewheres, too? Lying low?ChangerCharles 10/31/2012 7:35 @juanahang She Tweets under her name. Well, mostly.juanahang 10/31/2012 7:36 @changercharles Poh, so you DO know where she is. Why don't you just share her handlito.ChangerCharles 10/31/2012 7:36 @juanahang You've taken up Spanish, I see.juanahang 10/31/2012 7:37 @changercharles I've taken up sooo many things! It's crazy down here in the states. I see you found yourself some work. Good for you.ChangerCharles 10/31/2012 7:37 @juanahang Servitude.juanahang 10/31/2012 7:38 @changercharles Wow, megaton ranch flavored chips still firmly planted on both yor shoulderz I see.ChangerCharles 10/31/2012 7:39 @juanahang I really must return to my grading. You'll excuse my exit, I'm quite sure.juanahang 10/31/2012 7:40 @changercharles Your Tweets! That's it. You must've tweted with Haze. I know it.juanahang 10/31/2012 7:41 @changercharles I found it!!!! Its gotta be @CompHaze . Look at how she tweets. No apostrophes -- ever. Gotta be her.juanahang 10/31/2012 7:42 @changercharles Looks like @CompHaze is still teaching, too. You know I got me a job in the hackademe, 2.ChangerCharles 10/31/2012 7:43 @juanahang Signing off for the evening. Adieu.juanahang 10/31/2012 7:44 @changercharles You can logoff but you can't unplug forever. And when you come up for air-- well, I'll be there waiting for ya!juanahang 10/31/2012 7:45 @ChangerCharles Actually instead @CompHaze We should have a little pow-wow. Now that I'm back in the uni life, I've got some ideas to tryjuanahang 10/31/2012 7:46 @ChangerCharles @CompHaze And I'm gonna need your help, come on, don't just leave a guy ahnging.ChangerCharles 11/1/2012 7:57 Sweetest dream after night of Halloween knocking: the last rap at the door reveals her and my kids, returned as if from a crusade of candy.ChangerCharles 11/1/2012 8:12 RT @jessicamadadg: Student loan debt up five percent among latest grads: Students and parents need to know that, even at similar-lo... h ...ChangerCharles 11/1/2012 21:01 Do not forget, never forget, the new site for #highered #edreform: http://t.co/xDKAulnL! http://unichange.tumblr.comComphaze 11/1/2012 22:40 Im starting to take on the characteristics of my laundry: delicate, reshape when needed, colors designed to fade with time, handle with careComphaze 11/1/2012 23:20 Still no word from #profdarcy on my evaluation session or on that job opening. He smiles politely enough when I pass him, thoChangerCharles 11/2/2012 4:06 RT @CathyNDavidson: This NY Times piece is just weird. Of course students learn differently than we did. So did we! Here's my response ...ChangerCharles 11/2/2012 16:01 Launching the second week of a site for change: http://t.co/xDKAulnL #highered #edreform http://unichange.tumblr.comChangerCharles 11/2/2012 22:32 RT @Medievalists: Listening to: "The King's Hands: Engineers of the Angevin Empire" by Nicolas Prouteau (Poitiers) #Haskins2012ChangerCharles 11/2/2012 22:35 RT @jessicamadadg: Student loan body to 'pull out the stops': The organisation handling student loans has been told to ?pull out al... h ...ChangerCharles 11/2/2012 22:36 RT @Sarah_Peverley: The Hardyng manuscripts are full of fascinating annotations & images. Here's an angel to watch over followers ol ...ChangerCharles 11/2/2012 22:41 RT @Sarah_Peverley: Hardyng uses a variety of literary sources for his chronicle, including Chaucer's Troilus & Criseyde, Walton's B ...ChangerCharles 11/2/2012 22:44 RT @VCVaileNFM: The NFM Daily is out! http://t.co/rlxpwmd0 ? Top stories today via @VCVaileNFM @DellScholars @WrightGrlGneBd http://bit.ly/HzFZFDChangerCharles 11/4/2012 22:15 Awoke with the realization that although the clocks are now turned back an hour, I cannot paste a year upon my calendar & regain my familyComphaze 11/5/2012 3:12 RT @AAUWHigherEd: 2012 Faculty Survey Reports @dartmouth's Wage Gender Gap Was The Ivy League?s Widest 4 Full Profs http://t.co/EtAK83nZ ... http://goo.gl/8G492Comphaze 11/5/2012 3:16 RT @teachingwthsoul: Mobile Learning Support for New Teachers http://t.co/G8rmXAvL http://goo.gl/akuFNChangerCharles 11/5/2012 3:20 RT @ShellTerrell: Twitter is the best education PD, Period! http://t.co/8dZzlhOs #edchat #socialmedia #education by @markbarnes19 http://bit.ly/PQk4DgChangerCharles 11/5/2012 16:50 Truly, I will be happy when this election is over and we can go back to matters of lasting import: the beauty of medieval literature!Comphaze 11/7/2012 17:05 so in the steady stream of insults, it looks like my writing center will be losing funding next semester, fewer tyutors, etcjuanahang 11/7/2012 17:07 @comphaze Woh, that sux. Sorry to hear it. This hole hackademe is in the crapper, eh?juanahang 11/7/2012 17:09 @comphaze Basicallty all the same sheetz we were dealing with back in teh dayz, huh?Comphaze 11/7/2012 17:10 @juanahang uh, do I know you?juanahang 11/7/2012 17:11 @comphaze Come on, girl. It's me! Ah, you and Charlez. Exact same thing. He's such an arse.Comphaze 11/7/2012 17:12 @juanahang John?juanahang 11/7/2012 17:13 @comphaze In the flessh, er, in the tweeters. How've you been? Still teaching, eh?Comphaze 11/7/2012 17:13 @juanahang wghat do you want from me?juanahang 11/7/2012 17:14 @comphaze dude, why the hostylity? I'm just trying to reconnect -- you know -- I'm back int the hackademe, you know? teaching again.Comphaze 11/7/2012 17:15 @juanahang Oh, thats great. Congrats.juanahang 11/7/2012 17:16 @comphaze Haze, I'm sensing sum seriopus anger ishues. What's the deal? Did I miss something?Comphaze 11/7/2012 17:16 @juanahang Listen, Im glad youre back teaching again. Congrats. Lets chat later. Im really busy these days. talk to you soon.juanahang 11/7/2012 17:20 @comphaze Hey, doya ever wonder what it would be like if we started up the whole thing agian?Comphaze 11/7/2012 17:23 @juanahang no, i dont. ok?juanahang 11/7/2012 17:24 @comphaze It wouldn't have to be the sameold you know, the way Charles wanted it or anyting -- you know, I'm talking a new version.Comphaze 11/7/2012 17:25 @juanahang klet me be as clear as possible: no, id ont want any part of it. im out.juanahang 11/7/2012 17:26 @comphaze oh right. You're applyign for a job, and don't want to mes it up. I comprendo. No worries. I was just in the old nostalgix.Comphaze 11/7/2012 17:27 @juanahang It hws nothing to do with that, anyway, thats my own private business. Please, lets just drop it.juanahang 11/7/2012 17:28 @comphaze Then, why did you twweet it if you didn't want it out there? Hey, I understand. It didn't xactly go as planned. Whatev.Comphaze 11/7/2012 17:28 @juanahang Thats the understatement of the decade.juanahang 11/7/2012 17:29 @comphaze Hey, but that was mostly Charles. If he hadn't tweeted you out, we'd be golden. I swear. we could do it better.Comphaze 11/7/2012 17:29 @juanahang Too risky. Sorry. Ive moved on. New direction.juanahang 11/7/2012 17:30 @comphaze No tenure trax yet, though, huh? How's playing by the rulez working out? Being a good girl?Comphaze 11/7/2012 17:31 @juanahang youre an arsejuanahang 11/7/2012 17:32 @comphaze We could do it better, do it righteous this time, no screw ups. There's still time, you know, we got over a monthComphaze 11/7/2012 17:34 @juanahang What would it even acomplish. You herd what she said. Theyre not even in charge of that. of hirng Theyre not a union or anythingjuanahang 11/7/2012 17:35 @comphaze but rmember, that wasn't important. They give us the stage. Zuccotti park wasn't wall streets main offices, waz it?Comphaze 11/7/2012 17:36 @juanahang We had no plan -- no wait, we had a plan and you both chucked it out the windiwsjuanahang 11/7/2012 17:37 @comphaze you mean, charlezed it out the window, it wasn't me, remember, I was on your sideComphaze 11/7/2012 17:37 @juanahang i dont need this in my life right now.juanahang 11/7/2012 17:38 @comphaze Oh, ruight, prof darcyComphaze 11/7/2012 17:38 @juanahang enoghjuanahang 11/7/2012 17:39 @comphaze Sorry! Hey, really, sorry. I'm just saying. We all have our conflix of interest. Right? Fine. Just think about it, eh?Comphaze 11/7/2012 17:40 @juanahang We couldnt even get into the account?juanahang 11/7/2012 17:41 @comphaze I'm not so shur about that.Comphaze 11/7/2012 17:41 @juanahang ??????!!!!!!juanahang 11/7/2012 17:42 @comphaze Mighty interrabang!Comphaze 11/7/2012 17:42 @juanahang How?juanahang 11/7/2012 17:43 @comphaze Passwordz got to be something obvius. Remember. He had a system. he never left it. I think I can crack itComphaze 11/7/2012 17:44 @juanahang Ill believe it when I see it. Listen, ive got to go open the writing centerjuanahang 11/7/2012 17:45 @comphaze I'll be in touch, Haze. I think I've almost got it. I could shur use your help!ChangerCharles 11/8/2012 17:44 RT @SusanAbernethy2: Painting of Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester and mistress of King James II of England both before and... ht ...

ChangerCharles 11/8/2012 17:44ChangerCharles 11/8/2012 17:45 RT @SusanAbernethy2: Photo of Canterbury Cathedral from the cloister. http://t.co/W6kN1Zje http://fb.me/1LTeHlpYijuanahang 11/8/2012 21:01 Guess I need to find twitz folks to follow back in the hackademe.juanahang 11/8/2012 21:11 RT @vargasl: This Itch of Writing: When do you stop revising? http://t.co/4ZNwmWh3 [Facing this issue during #nanowrimo!] http://bit.ly/XmHDWnjuanahang 11/8/2012 21:11 My newest addiction: dried seaweed!!!!Comphaze 11/9/2012 2:32 How do I get a rec for this TT job if all the faculty whove observed me are on the hiring committee?Comphaze 11/9/2012 2:32 Oh, did I mention #profdarcys on the hiring committee?Comphaze 11/9/2012 2:36 RT @newsfromtengrrl: Survey Finds That Women Faculty Are More Stressed Out Than Male Faculty : Women In Academia Report http://t.co/irHRJKP7 http://ow.ly/eZQBuComphaze 11/9/2012 2:39 RT @skwlgrl: ?@philo_quotes: I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. ~ Cicero http://t.co/SypZI8NM? #metoo #timetobequieta ... http://bit.ly/philqComphaze 11/9/2012 2:44 RT @ANNELAMOTT: My friend Ethan Canin used to tell his students they should never write out of revenge. I used to tell MINE they needed ...ChangerCharles 11/9/2012 2:57 RT @LondonMedievSoc: JOB: Lecturer in #Medieval #History, University of Kent, deadline 11/11/2012 See http://t.co/APTTgTyC http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AFH265/lecturer-in-medieval-history/ChangerCharles 11/9/2012 18:54 Remember the fortress of #highered #edreform is here: http://t.co/xDKAulnL Please RT! http://unichange.tumblr.comChangerCharles 11/10/2012 4:19 RT @OccupySandy: THANK YOU to all of our committed, hard-working, & amazing volunteers. Remember: train yourself out of a job! And t ...Comphaze 11/10/2012 4:34 RT @JudyArzt: Wondering if #ncte12 will set up a school supplies donation drive to help students who lost supplies in Hurricane Sandy.ChangerCharles 11/12/2012 8:39 RT @history_girls: Today Harriet Castor opens the door on privacy, Tudor-style, http://t.co/dZ9t2Yys http://the-history-girls.blogspot.ie/2012/11/the-hole-in-wall-by-hm-castor.html

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juanahang 11/12/2012 8:46 Hallo, I think I just found the key, stashed beneath this copy of medieval lit. :)ChangerCharles 11/13/2012 18:29 I am rather fond of this new hash tag -- #adjunctstrategy -- new to me. Check out: http://t.co/xDKAulnL http://unichange.tumblr.comChangerCharles 11/14/2012 4:48 RT @MedievalistProb: Found old 4-digit bike lock, cant remember which historical event year I chose for the combination. #medievalistpro ...juanahang 11/14/2012 5:17 RT @RahelGabb: Listening to @carlyraejepsen this kiss <3 love it .juanahang 11/14/2012 5:18 Watching how this dept. treats its parttimers reminded me why i wasso pissed off when I left the hackademeComphaze 11/14/2012 5:59 Oh, #profdarcy, whats the game you're playing?ChangerCharles 11/14/2012 8:34 What does one want when the one you wanted most has gone?OccupyMLA 11/15/2012 16:37 We are the 999 lines! #mla13Comphaze 11/15/2012 16:38 Whos using the account again? @ChangerCharles! I thought you said you wouldnt us it??!!ChangerCharles 11/15/2012 16:40 @CompHaze What are you Tweeting about? Why volley such exclamations at me?Comphaze 11/15/2012 16:42 @ChangerCharles I saw that tweet from....ChangerCharles 11/15/2012 16:43 @CompHaze Relaxe, Constrain once more the dogs of war. No one is able to use that account. That must be an old tweet.Comphaze 11/15/2012 16:44 @ChangerCharles uh, timsetampChangerCharles 11/15/2012 16:45 @CompHaze Impossible. Inconceivable!Comphaze 11/15/2012 16:46 @ChangerCharles had to be John. i thought you changed the password.ChangerCharles 11/15/2012 16:47 @iaminigomontoya I do not have time for a full exchange right now, though I must admit, I am a very large enthusiast of your movie.ChangerCharles 11/15/2012 16:49 @CompHaze You know for a fact that I did. You could not login? Nor could John. Our security has been overcome.Comphaze 11/15/2012 16:50 @ChangerCharles This is bad, this is really bad. couldnt be worseChangerCharles 11/15/2012 16:50 @CompHaze Not the worst! The worst already trasnpired, that was last year.Comphaze 11/15/2012 16:51 @ChangerCharles Its just that I thought I was finally done with that. I thought this was supposed to be a new start!!ChangerCharles 11/15/2012 16:52 @CompHaze It is. It is. Be caml. Inevitably it shall be different. But could someone get past the portcullis? Lock-picked? Catburgled?juanahang 11/15/2012 16:54 @ChangerCharles @CompHaze Please... A cakewalk. You used your favorite author -- how hard is that?juanahang 11/15/2012 16:57 @ChangerCharles @CompHaze Were you trying to logon? OF coursse I changed it to something else, silly billy!ChangerCharles 11/15/2012 16:58 @juanahang @CompHaze I thought we had reached an agreement.juanahang 11/15/2012 16:59 @changercharles @CompHaze Where?s the we, dude? You decided for the royal we that you were going to close the account. U didn?t consult we.ChangerCharles 11/15/2012 17:00 @juanahang @CompHaze I did what I had to do at the time for the good of our cause; For the good of us all.juanahang 11/15/2012 17:03 @changercharles @CompHaze Well, I just did what I thought I had to do, then. So It?s BACK on like Eragon!Comphaze 11/15/2012 17:04 @juanahang @ChangerCharles Then turn it off. shit fck damjuanahang 11/15/2012 17:06 @comphaze @ChangerCharles No. Cuz it wasn?t the idea that was wrong. It was you, Charles. You were the one we needed protection fromChangerCharles 11/15/2012 17:07 @juanahang @CompHaze What? Oh, Please.Comphaze 11/15/2012 17:08 @ChangerCharles @juanahang hes right about thatChangerCharles 11/15/2012 17:09 @CompHaze @juanahang Did we not move past all of that? It was a momentary mistake.Comphaze 11/15/2012 17:10 @ChangerCharles @juanahang doesnt make it go away. doesnt give me my job backChangerCharles 11/15/2012 17:11 @CompHaze @juanahang Fine. Hurl me into the stocks. Lock me in the gaol of my own prideful ways. That does not justify this foolish return.juanahang 11/15/2012 17:13 @changercharles @CompHaze Foolish? I thought you cared about all this stuff. I thought you thougt we could change things!ChangerCharles 11/15/2012 17:14 @juanahang @CompHaze Yes, I had a very carefully worked out plan. I did not just lead us in willynilly. Why don't we form a new plan?Comphaze 11/15/2012 17:16 @ChangerCharles @juanahang hes right. lets stop take a breath and reconsider. how about no more new tweets till we discus?OccupyMLA 11/15/2012 17:18 Join us! #mla13 It's good to be back!Comphaze 11/15/2012 17:19 oh, shitjuanahang 11/15/2012 17:21 @comphaze @ChangerCharles let me know when you want back in. We'll talk.ChangerCharles 11/16/2012 16:54 The feeling of having your children taken from you is becoming all too familiar.ChangerCharles 11/16/2012 22:26 The thought processes of some people are far beyond my ken. This is what it feels like to be plundered.ChangerCharles 11/16/2012 22:26 RT @SusanAbernethy2: The story of Odo of Bayeux, half brother of William the Conqueror and Bishop of Bayeux. He began construction on.. ...Comphaze 11/17/2012 7:19 you evr get to th e point where you realize you cant actually leave the past behind?Comphaze 11/17/2012 7:38 RT @HuffingtonPost: Staunch women's rights supporter passes away at age 89 http://t.co/Vel1a4QN http://huff.to/RHjYeuChangerCharles 11/18/2012 4:54 No closer to re-entry than when I started and starting to feel the impossibility of this fool's enterprise.juanahang 11/18/2012 5:23 Aw, man, I finally have the keys to the car and am scared shiteless abt driving it off a cliff!OccupyMLA 11/19/2012 14:30 We are the 1000 lines. So there! #mla13OccupyMLA 11/19/2012 14:35 Just kidding. We've heard the theories. Twas just a coincidence we stopped there. And the causes had little to do with main our plan. #mla13OccupyMLA 11/19/2012 14:40 Yes, we?re really back and, yes, no more meltdowns or in-fighting. That?s a thing of the past. #mla13OccupyMLA 11/19/2012 14:50 Call us #omla II. (Like, the second.) #mla13OccupyMLA 11/19/2012 14:55 You could say the account is under new management. Quite a coup d?Tweet actually. #mla13OccupyMLA 11/19/2012 15:00 & the new guy in charge doesNOT see MLA personnel (or MLA bibliographic format, for that matter) as the enemy. Not at all. #mla13OccupyMLA 11/19/2012 15:05 We recognize all the hard work MLA has done in the name of equity and faculty rights!. #mla13OccupyMLA 11/19/2012 15:10 We want to reach out to MLA, and we ask for their support as well as we rebuild with an eye toward the @MLAConvention! Join us! #mla13OccupyMLA 11/19/2012 15:20 We?re all in thsi together, as they sing in HSM! #mla13OccupyMLA 11/19/2012 15:25 This year, we plan to stand with MLA gainst unfair labor practices in higher ed; the exploitative faculty/adjunct job market #mla13OccupyMLA 11/19/2012 15:35 There?s still a lot of work to do. In fact, there is reason to beleive conditions have gotten worse in academe #mla13OccupyMLA 11/19/2012 15:45 Do you believe our faculty factories are failing phds by feeding the job pool even while demand plummets? Join us! #mla13ChangerCharles 11/19/2012 15:45 Do you believe the gall @comphaze?Comphaze 11/19/2012 15:50 @ChangerCharles NO no NO nO, this cant happen now, not when im this close to a job, love, happinessOccupyMLA 11/19/2012 15:55 Do yo u believe adjuncts and other part-timers are unfairly burdened? Exploited? Join us! #mla13ChangerCharles 11/19/2012 15:55 @CompHaze Oh. What are you worried about? Need I remind you, you are no longer a part of it, could hardly be held responsible.OccupyMLA 11/19/2012 16:05 We stand in solidarity with @NewFacMajority & other groups fighting for adjunct rights! For highered reform!Comphaze 11/19/2012 16:05 @ChangerCharles we will always be a part of it. after last year, its like a Scarlet Letter on my chest.OccupyMLA 11/19/2012 16:10 We are still thee 999 Lines (not Tweets)! Join us! #mla13ChangerCharles 11/19/2012 16:10 @CompHaze On your grey suit.Comphaze 11/19/2012 16:15 @ChangerCharles Guess what finger Im holding up? Can you see it?Comphaze 11/19/2012 16:20 @ChangerCharles So whhat can we do?ChangerCharles 11/19/2012 16:35 @CompHaze Nothing. Let him have it. I have my own movement. Have you seen my Tumblr? http://t.co/xDKAulnL http://unichange.tumblr.comComphaze 11/19/2012 16:40 @ChangerCharles:Nice. but it does matter -- itll all come back to bite us in the endChangerCharles 11/19/2012 16:50 @CompHaze I see no other recourse.OccupyMLA 11/19/2012 21:32 RT @MLAconvention: Early alert! On 8 Dec, registration fir #MLA13 will increase to $210 from $180 for regular members. If you know you'r ...OccupyMLA 11/20/2012 5:50 RT @rgfeal: Despicable. MT @josh_boldt: College Cuts #Adjuncts' Hours to Avoid Provisions of Health-Care Law. @Chronicle http://t.co/64 ...OccupyMLA 11/20/2012 6:37 RT @chronicle: Deans have ideas about how they hire and assign adjuncts. And then there's reality: http://t.co/zji0ckyj http://chroni.cl/XBBxkYChangerCharles 11/20/2012 9:14 RT @erik_kwakkel: Awesome medieval 3D effect: painted letter E, as if carved out of marble (Venice, 1476 (Cambr Inc.1.B.3.2[1360]) http: ...ChangerCharles 11/20/2012 9:23 RT @ArchScot: Stone age nomads settled down in Merseyside, flints and timber suggest http://t.co/b6qqiSJf http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/nov/19/stone-age-nomads-merseyside-dwellingsChangerCharles 11/20/2012 9:24 RT @SeanFaganBooks: Interesting 17th century poison case concealed within a book http://t.co/tCAZtpMn http://twitter.com/SeanFaganBooks/status/269908515513069568/photo/1OccupyMLA 11/20/2012 12:45 Oh hey almost forgot about the #omla tag! The perfect way to join us! #mla13OccupyMLA 11/20/2012 13:00 Great read: What Is a ?Toxic? Campus? A Guest Post on @professorisin blog http://t.co/saZHRfwe #mla13 #omla http://ow.ly/fqyCBOccupyMLA 11/20/2012 14:30 Glad to see old friends in the fight against exploitation are still in it: @readywriting @VCVaileNFM @academicdave #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 11/20/2012 14:45 ANy new leaders in the assault against adjuncts & grad students emerged in the past year? Tweet names to follow #omla #mla13OccupyMLA 11/20/2012 15:00 HEy @AdjunctNation @NewFacMajority What's the latest update in the struggle? What's happened over the last year? Status? Plans? #mla13OccupyMLA 11/20/2012 15:02 RT @rgfeal: Teaching on a per-course basis? Enter your data in the Academic Workforce Data Center. Information is power. http://t.co/4Je ...OccupyMLA 11/20/2012 15:17 @digitaldigs so if min 450+ phds granted each yr & no prev grads still looking for work: a net of +650 to jobless pool http://t.co/6GDuCWfj http://www.ade.org/facts/placement/placement.htmOccupyMLA 11/20/2012 15:19 Do lit phd's create (at bare minimum) 600+ more grads than needed every year? #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 11/20/2012 15:21 Keep in mind, those numbers don't count all the hoards of MAs and MFAs who would be competing for NTT & CC jobs #mla13OccupyMLA 11/20/2012 15:22 But I'm no @natesilver. Who has more numbers we could consider re: employment? #mla13OccupyMLA 11/20/2012 15:35 @IshaiBarnoy @natesilver @digitaldigs is counting. Let's help him out! #mla13 #omlaComphaze 11/21/2012 0:11 Not syre if I ever tweeted it but #profarcy finally deignd to stop and talk w me about my observationComphaze 11/21/2012 0:12 Said i encounterd a worst case scenario and that my response was perfectly acceptable exceptComphaze 11/21/2012 0:13 The student from the incident fild a complaint against me with the department chair..Comphaze 11/21/2012 0:14 #profdarcy tried to stand up for me, but in this climate parttimers are presumed inadequate so the damge was done.Comphaze 11/21/2012 0:16 Said hed try to control the damage on the hiring committee. So. Im. Screwd.OccupyMLA 11/21/2012 0:25 MT MLAconvention: For those who have been waitlisted for #MLA13 travel grants: we've funded 100% of waitlist for many yrs now...OccupyMLA 11/21/2012 0:54 @savasavasava It's nice to see you're still awesome!! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 11/21/2012 1:17 @savasavasava nice to be back! ?hug?OccupyMLA 11/21/2012 4:23 RT @WrittenOffUSA: .@OccupyOakland 1 year ago, Occupy Student Debt was announced. Today it has its place in the larger StrikeDebt scene. ...OccupyMLA 11/21/2012 4:28 RT @readywriting: Gratitude | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/JD8HMb56 My Thanksgiving post - thankful for teaching, twitter, and family #h ... http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/college-ready-writing/gratitude#.UKwzrewk4_Y.twitterOccupyMLA 11/22/2012 14:45 RT @qui_oui: The disconnect between gov't and university priorities in PhD education http://t.co/V8ndKtrz #PhDchat #CdnPSE http://bit.ly/T4CtZ5OccupyMLA 11/22/2012 14:50 RT @jhameia: You can't be neutral on a moving train, and pretending you're "above it all" from the struggle for liberation makes you par ...OccupyMLA 11/22/2012 15:05 On American Thanksgiving Day, grateful 4 our former adversary & new comrade in advocating reform, the MLA #mla13 #omla #olivebranchChangerCharles 11/22/2012 15:16 What is he doing, that fool among fools, lying down with wolves?ChangerCharles 11/22/2012 15:18 Not to mention tossing all we worked so hard to build into the brackish, tepid waters of acquiescence!OccupyMLA 11/22/2012 15:37 RT @rogerwhitson: academia's not an excuse to treat urself like crap, to ignore ur feelings, to sacrifice everything, to wallow in pity ...OccupyMLA 11/22/2012 16:13 RT @readywriting: @rogerwhitson @ibogost My point it that most other professions have other options (private practice, for example). We ...OccupyMLA 11/22/2012 16:13 RT @readywriting: @rogerwhitson @ibogost It's particularly insulting to have gone through 10yrs of specialized "training" to then be tre ...OccupyMLA 11/22/2012 16:13 RT @readywriting: RT @networkedres: Discovering @academiccoaches http://t.co/04svIlV0 via @readywriting #HigherEd //Thx! http://academiccoachingandwriting.orgOccupyMLA 11/22/2012 16:15 MT @readywriting: @rogerwhitson you know, I think we are special in the same way doctors are. Highly skilled, rare and essential. +" #mla13OccupyMLA 11/22/2012 16:15 RT @readywriting: MT @Margin_Notes: Stalled research careers for women "a talent loss" says Lorna Marsden http://t.co/BiT4rdkk #femlead ... http://bit.ly/ThqxXv

OccupyMLA 11/22/2012 16:16 RT @rgfeal: Done! MT @nowviskie: Just donated to @StrikeDebt: http://t.co/dXPx7AYo Our new Thanksgiving tradition.// $ donated strikes d ... http://rollingjubilee.org/OccupyMLA 11/22/2012 16:18 @rogerwhitson & @readywriting are having a v important xchange abt the value of phds, mentoring, prepping candidates #rightnow #mla13OccupyMLA 11/22/2012 16:18 RT @rogerwhitson: @readywriting @ibogost I think the big prob is academic-romanticism. "It's good that we are treated like shit b/c we w ...OccupyMLA 11/22/2012 16:21 RT @rogerwhitson: @readywriting @ibogost TT is better than adjuncting. I think most people would agree with you. ;)OccupyMLA 11/22/2012 16:21 RT @readywriting: @rogerwhitson @ibogost None of these choices are simple, in the same way when ppl blame adjuncts b/c they "chose" to d ...OccupyMLA 11/22/2012 16:21 On this day, thankful that @readywriting is leading the chatstream on #highered reform! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 11/22/2012 16:23 @rogerwhitson too is a proving to be an honest voice in #highered reform! Awesome! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 11/22/2012 16:26 @readywriting awesome!!! Planning to be there in force! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 11/22/2012 16:26 Yes! RT @readywriting: @rogerwhitson @ibogost We get treated like shit in the slim hopes we might someday maybe get a TT job. But prob won'tOccupyMLA 11/22/2012 16:27 RT @readywriting: @rogerwhitson @ibogost I'm not saying TT jobs aren't their own unique kind of shit (I've been in one). But, it's in a ...ChangerCharles 11/22/2012 21:20 RT @HuffPostScience: Mysterious artifacts hint at daring early human voyage http://t.co/ArEcJELb http://huff.to/10hYJVaOccupyMLA 11/23/2012 15:26 RT @qui_oui: Grrr "much education at the college level is already mass education taught not by a master but by an adjunct" http://t.co/c ...OccupyMLA 11/23/2012 20:00 Don't forget @occuchat chat Sunday 7pm CST! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 11/23/2012 21:04 @occuchat #mla13 is in Boston! It's going to be a great opportunity for the reform movement! Join us!OccupyMLA 11/23/2012 21:04 @occuchat @readywriting #mla13 is in Boston! It's going to be a great opportunity for the reform movement! Join us!OccupyMLA 11/23/2012 21:15 Xcellent post by @newfacmajority Faculty Have a Branding Problem! http://t.co/QV1MluEW http://ow.ly/fx3IQOccupyMLA 11/23/2012 21:50 @occuchat The link for #mla13 is http://t.co/1lLLoxRJ ! #omla http://mla.org/conventionOccupyMLA 11/23/2012 22:15 Welcome new members to 1 of r favorite blogs: Can I Call the Department? (And...) http://t.co/PAk6Nf5f #mla13 @professorisin http://ow.ly/fx3OLOccupyMLA 11/24/2012 3:35 @occuchat @tibettruth @deadhead1991 @kylefarq @DebtForgivenes1 @R_DeBiasse_Jr right back at ya! #omla @mla13OccupyMLA 11/24/2012 3:39 RT @MadonnaWarwick: #FF thx @68titan and hello @AssocSettlement @LizziLitt @Rosecake @TruCelt @catsim7 @genjunky @hgeet @indyrallen @occ ...juanahang 11/24/2012 6:04 Dudes how can they cancel Todd and the @bookofpureevil??? #savetodd!!! One of the few nonfood pleasures to keep me sanE!ChangerCharles 11/24/2012 6:34 RT @mental_floss: During the reign of Elizabeth I, swan was a popular feast dish, especially when stuffed with the carcasses of nine oth ...ChangerCharles 11/24/2012 6:36 RT @SusanAbernethy2: From the archives: Aethelred the Unready was King of England in the 10th C. He was married to Emma of Normandy... ...ChangerCharles 11/24/2012 6:36 RT @SusanAbernethy2: On this day in 1407, the Duke of Orleans is ambushed and assassinated. http://t.co/5HEFrAh1 http://fb.me/wsjFa0FMChangerCharles 11/24/2012 9:45 Cannot desplice another sentencejamb. My head longs for syntactical correctness; my eyes long for the back of my eyelids.ChangerCharles 11/24/2012 13:50 Truth be told, I am old enough to 've watched Larry Hagman masterfully portray JR Ewing the first go round. Defined #lovetohateOccupyMLA 11/24/2012 15:15 Some are puzzld by our return: Think of it as an #OMLA do-over; lieve and learn #mla13ChangerCharles 11/24/2012 16:02 RT @SusanAbernethy2: On this day in 1326, Hugh Despenser the Younger, favorite of King Edward II of England ,was executed. http://t.co/4 ...OccupyMLA 11/24/2012 16:06 RT @dralexgoodall: From 1993 to 2009, U.S. universities added bureaucrats 10 times faster than they added tenured faculty. http://t.co/A ...OccupyMLA 11/24/2012 16:13 @occuchat Getting stronger! Gathering numbers! #omla RT @occuchat: Good morning #Occupy! How are all you guys today? #ows #OccuchatComphaze 11/24/2012 16:19 its almost noon & I havent been able to leave my bed pile of paper spread like a snoring lover & I think I am just #depressedOccupyMLA 11/24/2012 16:42 RT @rgfeal: So excited abt 3 things to be demoed in our #MLA13 exhibit hall: MLA Commons, MLA ByCommittee powered by @Interfolio, and a ...OccupyMLA 11/24/2012 16:45 Be the surprise you wish to see! Join us! #omla #mla13ChangerCharles 11/24/2012 17:40 See a site aimed at real and lasting #highered #reform. A voice of Change! http://t.co/xDKAulnL http://unichange.tumblr.comOccupyMLA 11/24/2012 23:15 Getting your PhD should not be the death of your dream of a life studying lit! Join us! #omla #MLA13OccupyMLA 11/24/2012 23:22 @noeljackson yes! As part of #omla this time we are going to put together a website! #mla13ChangerCharles 11/25/2012 4:07 RT @SusanAbernethy2: Photo of Portchester Castle, Hampshire, England. 12th C. http://t.co/1OXXtlPy http://fb.me/2hcujrHBNChangerCharles 11/25/2012 4:08 RT @David_Works: Philip (II) Lord Darcy (c.1259?1333), constable of #Durham Castle; forcibly removed prior of Durham Cathedral 1301, die ...ChangerCharles 11/25/2012 4:08 RT @David_Works: 24 Nov also the feast of Colm?n mac L?n?ne (530?606), founder of the great monastery of #Cloyne (Cluain Uama) in the kd ...ChangerCharles 11/25/2012 4:10 RT @MedievalArchive: After Dispensers death his corpse was beheaded and cut into four pieces. His head was placed on the gates of LondonChangerCharles 11/25/2012 4:11 Old Scole: "@MedievalArchive: Dispenser was hanged to the brink of death, cut down and tied to a ladder, then disemboweled"ChangerCharles 11/25/2012 4:16 RT @ProfShakespeare: For info on papers being presented today at the conference "Who Invented the 'Shakespearean' Theatre", follow #Shak ...OccupyMLA 11/25/2012 7:30 See? This Year Occupy Wall Street did Occupy Sandy +1 of my fave bands, http://t.co/I1fG2Z1t keep it positive! #mla13 http://bit.ly/10afxfKChangerCharles 11/25/2012 15:12 RT @MedievalArchive: 1248 - In the middle of the night the north side of Mont Granier suddenly collapsed, it's one of the largest histor ...ChangerCharles 11/25/2012 15:13 RT @byzantinephil: Byzantine News: 500th anniversary of Armenian Printing http://t.co/dXAR3u0a http://byzantinenews.blogspot.com/2012/11/500th-anniversary-of-armenian-printing.html?spref=twChangerCharles 11/25/2012 15:14 RT @egyptologynews: Video. Curator talks viewers through the virtual autopsy table showing murder of Gebelein Man at British Museum Reut ...ChangerCharles 11/25/2012 15:16 RT @history_book: The Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester 2 Volume Set (Cambridge Library Collection -... - William Aldis Wright ...ChangerCharles 11/25/2012 15:16 RT @MedievalMss: This colophon indicates that Sargis the Priest completed this text in 415 [966 CE]. http://t.co/GMNajcRC http://ow.ly/f9K5sOccupyMLA 11/25/2012 17:35 Don?t have any interviews at the MLA Convention in Boston? Join us! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 11/25/2012 17:45 Your panel proposal rejected at MLA Convention? Join us! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 11/25/2012 17:50 Manuscript rejected by outdated academic press? Join us! (the O also stands for OPEN Up!) #mla13 #omlaChangerCharles 11/25/2012 19:41 By the time you reach the age to teach someone truly via feedback on papers, you are often too old to care #gradingcomaComphaze 11/25/2012 20:50 A weekend away from the Writing Center and even a little excursion shopping hs done some wonders to my mood. As they say #retailtherapyComphaze 11/26/2012 3:18 RT @LindaAragoni: Most real-world #writing assignments give writers their topic. Writer makes an assertion about topic http://t.co/6QC0C2SC http://ilnk.me/yc119Comphaze 11/26/2012 3:19 RT @comPOSITIONblog: comPOSITION: Race, Language, and Identity in Students' Academic Lives: Lessons from #NCTE12 http://t.co/XENcSVK6 #e ... http://np-composition.blogspot.com/2012/11/race-language-and-identity-in-students.html?spref=twComphaze 11/26/2012 3:23 RT @LindaAragoni: As aid to writing #introductions, have students write working #thesis for piece of nonfiction they read http://t.co/Oo ...Comphaze 11/26/2012 3:24 RT @danielle6849: Sometimes we do "stations" where we can support struggling groups. Other times, we mix abilities and allow peer suppor ...Comphaze 11/26/2012 3:25 RT @danielle6849: You have to be sure that you are setting all students at high level, and supporting strugglers. Don't want to track. # ...Comphaze 11/26/2012 3:25 RT @ANNELAMOTT: I miss writing so much but it's hard. Butt in chair--hard. Letting yourself write a long crummy 1st draft--hard, and sca ...Comphaze 11/26/2012 3:26 RT @ANNELAMOTT: It's REALLYTRUE that you own everything that happens to you & if people wanted you to write nicely about them, they ...OccupyMLA 11/26/2012 3:38 RT @missoularedhead: Working for Change in Higher Education: The Abysmal State of Adjunct Teacher Pay http://t.co/hTFwvBLy so, another r ... http://truth-out.org/news/item/12942-working-for-change-in-higher-education-the-abysmal-state-of-adjunct-teacher-payOccupyMLA 11/26/2012 3:39 RT @MeganJMcPherson: @readywriting I was a sessional lecturer for 15 years (ie 13 week contracts twice a year). We can never afford the ...OccupyMLA 11/26/2012 3:40 RT @MeganJMcPherson: @readywriting the question I think is do you want to put yourself in a position that will help change it and what w ...OccupyMLA 11/26/2012 3:41 @readywriting You are a born leader and are in a position to incite change! #omla #mla13OccupyMLA 11/26/2012 3:43 @readywriting @MeganJMcPherson we know about CLMs, but is it all about making a living or making a better life? #omla #mla13OccupyMLA 11/26/2012 3:46 @readywriting We are listening! #omla #mla13OccupyMLA 11/26/2012 3:58 @MeganJMcPherson @readywriting Some fights are bigger than a job, bigger than what we think we want, bigger than any one of us #omla #mla13OccupyMLA 11/26/2012 4:10 @missoularedhead @MeganJMcPherson @readywriting Got 2 be able 2 feed your family & must b the first to teach your child what's right #mla13OccupyMLA 11/26/2012 4:13 @readywriting With you as her role model, that is the message she will hear! Someday she will read your columns & understand #omlaOccupyMLA 11/26/2012 4:14 @readywriting That is the steamin bowl of BS we've been served. #omla #mla13OccupyMLA 11/26/2012 4:17 @readywriting Sure, we understand the caution, aftr what happend to us, but then again, that was BS too. #mla13OccupyMLA 11/26/2012 4:34 @MeganJMcPherson @missoularedhead @readywriting in the past #omla has been a little anti alt but now I've had to work in it's not so badChangerCharles 11/26/2012 9:04 RT @medievalbook: Wormholes from centuries-old art prints reveal history: Wormholes reproduced in wood-printed ... http://t.co/QESjhq8h ... http://bit.ly/10VscDNChangerCharles 11/26/2012 9:04 RT @jessicamadadg: Is College Worth the Price and Debt? Private student loans make up ...: $150 billion of the outstanding student ... h ...ChangerCharles 11/26/2012 9:05 RT @SusanAbernethy2: Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox was the daughter of Margaret Tudor, sister of King Henry VIII of England.... h ...ChangerCharles 11/26/2012 13:30 Weekends are blanketed in loneliness and loss. The mundanity of Mondays slap me out of it.OccupyMLA 11/26/2012 14:40 Why occupy MLA? A fleet of kayaks turn faster in response to Change in Ed than aircrft carrier of admin #mla13OccupyMLA 11/26/2012 14:45 i.e.: laffable cluelessness of most Admin in face of Newly Empowered Consumer of Online HigherEd need us youngsta?s #mla13OccupyMLA 11/26/2012 14:50 our laffable affable well-meaning well-educated elders need our kind hand at their elbow crossing the Great Divide #mla13OccupyMLA 11/26/2012 15:00 There?s a grassroots, ground-up HELPING thing that can happen with #OMLA, not just a angry whiny thing #mla13 Join us!ChangerCharles 11/26/2012 15:01 What in Dante's Inferno is all this babbling about? Holy Hades that boy's going to run the chariot right off the cliff!OccupyMLA 11/26/2012 15:05 no ageism, just demo-creatic demo-grafix; no antagonism neither; just that things look different at diff ages #mla13OccupyMLA 11/26/2012 15:15 @fbgtxmom @readywriting Wow! Homeschool's the oldschool newschool! Certainly dignifide but would it pay the bills? #epicstudentdebtjuanahang 11/26/2012 15:15 @ChangerCharles You want back in, buddy, just Tweet the word!OccupyMLA 11/26/2012 15:15 The occupy part of occupy is an icebreaker to start a heart-to-heart dialogue; We really need to talk now! #mla13 @mlaconventionComphaze 11/26/2012 17:07 RT @LindaAragoni: #editing checklist can be made from student's own Individual Mastery Plan http://t.co/RcYoctRS http://ilnk.me/yc090Comphaze 11/26/2012 17:13 RT @readywriting: I feel like I'm in some twisted version of Killing me Softly, but instead of music, it's these essays...Comphaze 11/26/2012 17:16 Killing me softly. yes, or trampling me persistently. ah, well, time to open up the WC. Line down the hall alreadyjuanahang 11/26/2012 18:20 For some reason, even when I'm sitting next to an outlet, I like to see just how close I can get to 0 battery on my laptop b4 plugging it inChangerCharles 11/26/2012 19:57 RT @VCVaileNFM: Is there a climate of fear at your #highered institution? HT @TimesHigherEd, sha...: Is there a climate of fear ... http ...Comphaze 11/26/2012 22:30 still no word on the job, am hopeful still, 2 of the other part-tiemrs heard back, no interviews, just regretsChangerCharles 11/27/2012 9:20 What I wouldn't give to stand behind a podium...once more.OccupyMLA 11/27/2012 14:30 We need a #RollingJubilee for PhDs! Join us! #omla #mla13ChangerCharles 11/27/2012 14:31 AutoGrammar checkers in programs have created new hoards of ghastly mutant syntactical errors which can be parsed but never understood.OccupyMLA 11/27/2012 14:40 Just like OccWalSt this year, we?re more of a bailout than a tantrum. #mla13 don?t think you need bailing? #omlaOccupyMLA 11/27/2012 15:34 RT @HASTACscholars: Adjunct Project - crowdsourcing the pay, contract, insurance + other details for adjunct teaching. http://t.co/jTa9T ...OccupyMLA 11/27/2012 17:11 RT @profragsdale: They need to be checked! Pearson 'Education' -- Who Are These People? http://t.co/lcJkbsAh via @HuffingtonPost http://huff.to/RhRu7mOccupyMLA 11/27/2012 22:05 See this amazing(ly scary) site. The Adjunct Project! http://t.co/hBlxbzdE Join us! (Tho not connected) #omla #mla13 http://www.adjunctproject.com/us/OccupyMLA 11/28/2012 3:03 RT @literarychica: RT @pannapacker: A major network has finally noticed the adjunct problem. Will anyone care? http://t.co/Knqr9ZPM http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505145_162-57554450/do-colleges-exploit-their-professors/OccupyMLA 11/28/2012 3:11 The great wall is trembling as a prof announces giving up her tenure. Wow. #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 11/28/2012 3:34 @SaveAsWTF uh, needle, haystack. #goodluckwiththat #mla13ChangerCharles 11/28/2012 3:40 Oh, now they are searching for me! How flattering.OccupyMLA 11/28/2012 3:43 @SaveAsWTF it's not our secret to spill, dude. Guy's not with us anymore.OccupyMLA 11/28/2012 3:46 @SaveAsWTF you know that already, and no we can't help you with names. Sorry.OccupyMLA 11/28/2012 3:49 RT @studentactivism: Can I just note how messed up it is that students occupying a campus building have to risk neck injury to avoid arr ...OccupyMLA 11/28/2012 4:19 RT @noeljackson: Adjunct Faculty Facts (via @MichaelBerube1): https://t.co/hjy0WFZe https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/27920_4377526790850_535444379_n.jpgOccupyMLA 11/28/2012 14:44 RT @cjprender: Public Service Announcement: It's too early to conclude you have no interviews at #mla13. /Join us! #omlaChangerCharles 11/28/2012 15:45 I wish I had the luxury to be able to teach these students, but alas, I am only the grader.OccupyMLA 11/28/2012 15:52 RT @literarychica: Leaving tenure behind, embracing the unknown-and-exciting future--I can get behind this. MT @kfitz: Moving On. http:/ ...ChangerCharles 11/29/2012 4:47 RT @medievalbook: Powerful Women in a Patriarchal Society: Examining the Social Status and Roles of Aristocrati... http://t.co/TDXJgSHv ... http://bit.ly/TpiVP1

OccupyMLA 11/29/2012 4:56 RT @BendProf: Community college job ads often posted after MLA convention. I'll have flyers for/can chat re TT positions in French & ...ChangerCharles 11/29/2012 18:20 Students, you cannot decide that your signature style includes the periodic placement of grammatical errors.OccupyMLA 11/29/2012 19:19 RT @samplereality: Props to @MLAconvention for not only supporting the #MLA13 backchannel, but for sharing the code to do so. http://t.c ...OccupyMLA 11/29/2012 21:10 How broken is the tenure system if the multitudes are clambering at the gates while others happily give it up? Join us! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 11/29/2012 22:26 @noeljackson No way. Haven't you been watching the Tweets? It's mos def mas than one person gave up tenure #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 11/29/2012 22:28 @s_insley_h No just noting the GREAT DIVIDE btwn those who have (& so CAN give it up) & those who dream of it & deal with less #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 11/29/2012 22:30 @s_insley_h Like some of us have teaching gigs & and other gigs -- way far on the #alt scale just to make ends meet, you know? #mla13OccupyMLA 11/29/2012 22:31 In fact I've got to go off to my other job right now! Later Tweeps!OccupyMLA 11/29/2012 22:34 @s_insley_h Ah, altac -- I know of which you speak. Let's pick this up when I get off work at my other job. I'm not kiddingChangerCharles 11/30/2012 0:00 What's he going to do? Ask every medievalist on Twitter? Absurd!ChangerCharles 11/30/2012 0:18 RT @monarchyconf: Interesting Spanish up-and-coming magazine on all things medieval-looks great to me! http://t.co/8BBa2STn http://www.editorialgram.com/medieval/ChangerCharles 11/30/2012 3:56 @juanahang Do you have even the slenderest of plans for the account?juanahang 11/30/2012 3:57 @changercharles Chuck! So great of you to tweet at me? I thawt you had tuned out!ChangerCharles 11/30/2012 3:58 @juanahang How could I? You have become the veritable locomotive wreck.juanahang 11/30/2012 4:00 @changercharles Woh. Jealous much? Dude, I'm rocking this account. They just started following me again!!!ChangerCharles 11/30/2012 4:03 @juanahang Interesting. I can remember when they ceased. And have they made contact directly yet?juanahang 11/30/2012 4:04 @changercharles Nope. Nada. Nothing. Nyet. Not even a little. But I thik I have their attenzione.ChangerCharles 11/30/2012 4:08 @juanahang Well, I should hope so. You have used the hashtag like a scullery maid.juanahang 11/30/2012 4:10 @changercharles LMFAO. You still crack my shiz up, Chuck. I miss Tweeting with uChangerCharles 11/30/2012 4:11 @juanahang Irreconcilable differences.juanahang 11/30/2012 4:13 @changercharles So sorry, Charlie. Has she even called you yet? Txted?ChangerCharles 11/30/2012 4:14 @juanahang I was NOT attempting to raise the issue (through allusion or otherwise) to my persona life.juanahang 11/30/2012 4:15 @changercharles sore spot, I get it, Charles. So what did you want to contact me about? Want back in? Is that it?ChangerCharles 11/30/2012 4:15 @juanahang Possibly.juanahang 11/30/2012 4:17 @changercharles Nope, impoSIble, amigo. Sorry. Not till you prove to me you're not gonna screw it all up, lock me out, and shut down again.ChangerCharles 11/30/2012 4:18 @juanahang Then let us watch how well you perform without me. Go on. I will merely wait for the bear to eat his dinner.juanahang 11/30/2012 4:20 @changercharles Wow you are one mestup bardstard, charlie. I feel sorry for you. Enjoy the feed!OccupyMLA 11/30/2012 4:50 Now that you're following us again, can you please go back to calling us by name, instead of by code names? Middle school is over. #omlaOccupyMLA 11/30/2012 4:58 RT @roopikarisam: @BendProf @literarychica @rgfeal @michaelberube1 #mla13 #gangnamstyleOccupyMLA 12/1/2012 2:50 #MLA13 will be a party for some:cashbars, dance parties, interviews; for the rest, a time to stand up! Join us! #omlaOccupyMLA 12/1/2012 3:50 Let's sit up & speak out rather than slump down & tweet out (during panels)! Join us! #omla #mla13OccupyMLA 12/1/2012 5:17 MT @retius: there *is* quite a lot of magical thinking in the academy. Isn't that what makes people think they'll find TT jobs? #mla13Comphaze 12/3/2012 4:35 is it just me or does no one feel like going in to work tomorrow?Comphaze 12/3/2012 4:37 im just dreading everything abt it. opening the writing center, teaching, holding office hours, seeing #profdarcyChangerCharles 12/3/2012 4:54 RT @jessicamadadg: Student Debt Crisis: New Evidence Points to Growing Bubble: The increase in delinquent loans doesn't mean that t... h ...ChangerCharles 12/3/2012 10:22 As December stark winds mount, my shadow stretched out thin, I ask the window pane whence went my loves?juanahang 12/3/2012 10:52 Rufff nite at the restaurant! Serious burns to my best chinos.Seriously bummed.OccupyMLA 12/3/2012 14:30 @michaelberube1 I don't think I was either, if you look back at what I said. #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/3/2012 14:32 RT @roopikarisam: @eetempleton @phdeviate @katinalynn @tressiemcphd We had a depr series on it. Now the grad school does "Pathways Beyon ...OccupyMLA 12/3/2012 14:36 RT @literarychica: @brendabethman @bonstewart @qui_oui @roopikarisam So I looked elsewhere, and don't regret it. I looked for skills mat ...OccupyMLA 12/3/2012 14:37 RT @brendabethman: @literarychica @bonstewart @qui_oui @roopikarisam Can b harder 2 convince academy to hire ?academic? PhD's for nontea ...OccupyMLA 12/3/2012 14:40 Somtimes the big tweeps of #mla13 can be insensitive to the many many who did NOT get interviews all I meant #omlaOccupyMLA 12/3/2012 14:50 OMG when I first saw the tweet, I thot I had been mentioned by @MichaelBuble What a voice -- esp for the holidays! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/3/2012 15:07 RT @josh_boldt: #Adjuncts from across the Washington region plan to unionize to fight 'market problem' http://t.co/ONj2QAN5 http://flpbd.it/NF47OOccupyMLA 12/3/2012 15:10 No interview at #mla13? Not so optimistic abt your job prospects? Join us! #omlaOccupyMLA 12/3/2012 15:20 Feeling like #altac is your only alt? Join us! #mla13 #omlaChangerCharles 12/3/2012 16:50 RT @tannerritchie: James Stuart, son of future James II, died in 1667. http://t.co/WyPW1uAq His elder brother Charles, also D of Cambrid ... http://ow.ly/fMgKIChangerCharles 12/3/2012 16:50 RT @tannerritchie: in the young Duke [of Cambridge] may break forth from the clouds of his childhood & he may prove the wonder of hi ...ChangerCharles 12/3/2012 16:51 RT @philmcrae: Instead of US reforms for more hours, perhaps more exercise & creative play, more socio-emotional development, less t ...ChangerCharles 12/3/2012 16:52 RT @george_szirtes: The light is never bright enough. The light is never dim enough - New Proverbs of HellChangerCharles 12/3/2012 16:55 RT @tannerritchie: 3 Dec 1661: Lord Ashley, Chancellor of the Exchequer, issues report on Francis Craddock's proposal to erect banks in ...ChangerCharles 12/3/2012 16:55 RT @SusanAbernethy2: Photo of the Castle of Neuschwanstein, Bavaria, Germany, 19th C. http://t.co/KlFiGq7d http://fb.me/zSqWtNWzChangerCharles 12/3/2012 16:56 RT @MedievalAcademy: Jobs For Medievalists: Director of the Special Collections Research Center at The Earl Greg Swem Library The Col... ...ChangerCharles 12/3/2012 16:56 RT @MedievalAcademy: Call for Papers ? Chant and Culture: The University of British Columbia?s Committee for Medieval Studies present... ...ChangerCharles 12/3/2012 16:57 Universities must change to survive the inevitable bubble bursting http://t.co/xDKAulnL http://unichange.tumblr.com

ChangerCharles 12/3/2012 16:58 http://laurapurcell.com/?p=369Comphaze 12/3/2012 17:32 Opened the writing center to a crowd of people lookd like Macys black Friday, immediately closed the door again and hid #amiawfulComphaze 12/3/2012 17:33 RT @CameronDHammon: Back at the computer with no doubt that writing is where I find my best self. Grateful for a break and grateful for ...ChangerCharles 12/4/2012 9:01 Knowing that no position, no mythical golden opportunity or windfall could ever restore what mattered most...ChangerCharles 12/4/2012 9:14 When the light fades & the tweets grow silent, lying at last to sleep, there is only loss.OccupyMLA 12/4/2012 14:49 We are in danger of losing our most critical voices in academy. Join us! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/4/2012 14:50 Academic method: create experts, then demoralize them! Join us! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/4/2012 14:51 Someone should start a kickstarter to keep leaders like @readywriting in the academy! Such a loss it wld be! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/4/2012 14:59 @readywriting But the profession NEEDS you. We chickens run better with our heads still on. #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/4/2012 15:51 @prof_anne Let's kick it off! Losing @readywriting would be such a tragedy & a MAJOR loss to #highered reform #omla #mla13OccupyMLA 12/4/2012 15:52 @readywriting is @insidehighered but she can't find a place inside higher ed! That's just wrong! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/4/2012 16:01 @noeljackson @triatriatria @prof_anne @profKJM Let the campaign to keep @readywriting begin! #mla13ChangerCharles 12/4/2012 16:22 If you want to fight for real higher ed reform now, see http://t.co/xDKAulnL Please retweet this. http://unichange.tumblr.comOccupyMLA 12/4/2012 16:30 @readywriting But don't you see?! If the profession won't compensate you, we need YOU to know what you mean to US! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/4/2012 16:31 Let @readywriting know what she means to the profession! Tweet it up! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/4/2012 16:32 RT if you appreciate what @readywriting does for us!! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/4/2012 16:51 RT @noeljackson: @readywriting @occupymla @triatriatria @prof_anne @ProfKJM I like the idea of a @strikedebt #rollingjubilee for academi ...OccupyMLA 12/4/2012 16:52 @readywriting @occupymla @triatriatria @prof_anne @ProfKJM @StrikeDebt #rollingjubilee for off T. 2nded. What might that look like? #mla13OccupyMLA 12/4/2012 16:56 @readywriting @occupymla @triatriatria @prof_anne @ProfKJM @StrikeDebt #rollingjubilee Cld we use Razoo? #mla13 http://t.co/ID53oMQX http://www.razoo.com/OccupyMLA 12/4/2012 17:55 Trained by a profession & then abandoned by it? Join us! #omla #mla13OccupyMLA 12/4/2012 20:07 RT @VCVaileNFM: #PETITION JUNCTION?NEW feature on #newfac blog! Watch this space for petition li...: #PETITION JUNCTION?NEW feat... http ...OccupyMLA 12/4/2012 21:27 @noeljackson This looks cool! But I can't read it. Did you get my DM?OccupyMLA 12/5/2012 0:09 @noeljackson I like the pre-existing site, not re-inventing wheel, razoo is top of nonprofit fundraising, flexibleOccupyMLA 12/5/2012 0:11 @noeljackson absolutely agree on distribution plan. A little wld go along way to help people out, esp in these times!OccupyMLA 12/5/2012 0:12 @prof_anne @noeljackson @readywriting @triatriatria @ProfKJM proposal: open a Google Doc for brainstorming logisticsOccupyMLA 12/5/2012 0:17 @noeljackson @strikedebt takes on one case at time. Lottery? Or maybe the most anyone gets is a giftcards=wld help at holidaysOccupyMLA 12/5/2012 0:20 @noeljackson or --- what if it's not $ they get but services like @profisin offers? An academic profile page w some career guidance?OccupyMLA 12/5/2012 0:25 @noeljackson Got it, great. See you there: @readywriting @triatriatria @prof_anne @ProfkjmOccupyMLA 12/5/2012 0:27 @noeljackson Switched it so anyone with the link can edit.OccupyMLA 12/5/2012 0:33 @noeljackson Let's see what we can gin up, eh? I mean, it's not going to SOLVE the porblem but it is an action? #fightsthehelplessnessOccupyMLA 12/5/2012 0:36 @noeljackson Okay, dude, I left some notes in there. See what you think. Can't hurt to brainstorm. :)OccupyMLA 12/5/2012 0:46 @noeljackson Okay, but adjuncthood isn't as straightforward as debt. See our thoughts in the doc. Put yours, pls.OccupyMLA 12/5/2012 0:49 @ShanteParadigm @noeljackson join us! Noel has the link to the gdoc brainstorm!OccupyMLA 12/5/2012 1:09 @noeljackson so far, just my comments in there. Others haven't replied yet: dinner/tv/bedtime? Pls. put yours.OccupyMLA 12/5/2012 5:05 @noeljackson Still not seeing your comments in the doc. When you get a chance, throw in. :)OccupyMLA 12/5/2012 5:07 @noeljackson Mayb not! Ha! Can you share the link again? #sorryOccupyMLA 12/5/2012 5:08 @noeljackson Okay, see you in the Doc in a sec.OccupyMLA 12/5/2012 5:23 @prof_anne @noeljackson @readywriting @triatriatria @ProfKJM Awesome! Were you in the right doc? Adjunct Strikedebt (working document)OccupyMLA 12/5/2012 6:16 Just took the first steps toward an Adjunct Strikedebt! Join us! #mla13 #omlaChangerCharles 12/5/2012 9:15 It is astounding how the pain of human loss, of loss of our loved ones, can even numb us to the pain of marking up some1 else's papers.OccupyMLA 12/5/2012 9:56 RT @insidehighered: Inside Higher Ed: Adjunct Hours and Health Insurance / More Cracks in the Credit Hour -- D... - http://t.co/oTCVI2Wv http://eepurl.com/sAj-1OccupyMLA 12/5/2012 14:00 They Quailed at your Quals, Dissed your Diss, & Now say Pfft to your Phd! Join us! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/5/2012 14:30 By the time the academy sees the braindrain it creatd thru adjunctification, it will have tossd its mantle to the MOOCs #mla13OccupyMLA 12/5/2012 16:30 @noeljackson @triatriatria @prof_anne @readywriting @ProfKJM yeah I think we were just trying to keep all interested parties in the loopOccupyMLA 12/5/2012 16:32 @noeljackson @prof_anne @readywriting did you reach out to them yet?OccupyMLA 12/5/2012 16:35 @noeljackson @prof_anne @readywriting @AnnLarsonNYC awesome! Looking forward to hearing her thoughtsOccupyMLA 12/5/2012 16:43 @noeljackson @prof_anne @readywriting @AnnLarsonNYC that makes anne-adiplosis!Comphaze 12/5/2012 16:52 Ah, semester's end. When my beloved writing center becomes a lastminute copyediting service!OccupyMLA 12/5/2012 16:55 @prof_anne @noeljackson @readywriting @AnnLarsonNYC anndimonium!OccupyMLA 12/5/2012 17:44 @readywriting have you checked out the doc yet?OccupyMLA 12/5/2012 19:30 Sick of watching the sheep line up for the slaughter of their semiotic training? Join us! #omla #mla13OccupyMLA 12/6/2012 3:54 @readywriting thanks for giving it some input!OccupyMLA 12/6/2012 5:33 @noeljackson @ShanteParadigm @prof_anne @AnnLarsonNYC Yes, Welcome!Comphaze 12/6/2012 7:43 at the end of the longst day at the writing center, bottom of my mood #profdarcy walks in + asks if I want to grab lunch 2moro

RT @SusanAbernethy2: Some information on the daughers of King George II of England.http://t.co/dn1fYkn2 http://t.co/J3Q3kNIh

OccupyMLA 12/6/2012 17:28 A month to go till #MLA13 Time to prepare! Join us! #omlaOccupyMLA 12/6/2012 17:36 @noeljackson @ShanteParadigm @prof_anne @AnnLarsonNYC Put a few more thoughts in the Doc last night. Still many ??sOccupyMLA 12/6/2012 17:37 @stwade ?OccupyMLA 12/6/2012 17:38 @readywriting Defnitely a thought. Thanks for all the notes! Still trying to figure out the right way to go with the plan. It's a start!OccupyMLA 12/6/2012 17:46 @annlarsonnyc @noeljackson @ShanteParadigm @prof_anne can you expln the diff. Here &/or in the Doc?OccupyMLA 12/6/2012 17:48 Being strung along by a department that will (ab)use u as an adjunct but never as TT? Join us! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/6/2012 17:53 Contingent fac? a must-read @AnnLarsonNYC http://t.co/6XCSfpIh #mla13 http://annlarson.org/2012/03/12/the-mla-president-and-the-new-faculty-majority/OccupyMLA 12/6/2012 17:56 @noeljackson @AnnLarsonNYC @ShanteParadigm @prof_anne @StrikeDebt Sure. How can we use it as a model?OccupyMLA 12/6/2012 18:05 "# of adjuncts in higher ed is a labor crisis that relegates the majority of college teachers to low-wage marginality" @AnnLarsonNYC #mla13OccupyMLA 12/6/2012 18:09 @AnnLarsonNYC: adjuncts making $2,200 per class with no contract and no health insurance...are not ?university professors. #mla13OccupyMLA 12/6/2012 18:20 @AnnLarsonNYC: Why should a labor crisis be addressed through an appeal..to parents? desire to ?get a good deal? for their money? #mla13OccupyMLA 12/6/2012 18:30 @AnnLarsonNYC on @MichaelBerube1:This rhetoric implies that a college deg .is a commercial product akin to a car or a flat screen TV #mla13OccupyMLA 12/6/2012 18:58 RT @StrikeDebt: How would you live differently if you had no debt? Go to http://t.co/HxwUobFR and show the world why we must #StrikeDebt http://whystrikedebt.tumblr.comOccupyMLA 12/7/2012 8:20 RT @MLAconvention: Please use #MLA13 to refer to the Boston convention starting in less than a month! Thanks and Love, @MLAconvention, t ...OccupyMLA 12/7/2012 14:30 @AnnLarsonNYC: "we have to start declaring, loudly and with conviction...that we are them and they are us" http://t.co/6XCSfpIh #mla13 http://annlarson.org/2012/03/12/the-mla-president-and-the-new-faculty-majority/OccupyMLA 12/7/2012 17:06 @noeljackson @cesgnal no worries! The article is the signal the conversation has begun! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/7/2012 17:09 This is just the opening we needed! @noeljackson #mla13 #omla now we need to develop the best mutualaid plan.OccupyMLA 12/7/2012 17:10 Doesn?t everyone who labors for a paycheck deserve a ?measure of job security?? @AnnLarsonNYC http://t.co/lMNJUAFe #mla13 http://ow.ly/fSOEzOccupyMLA 12/7/2012 20:30 The problem adjuncts face is not that their struggle 4 fair wages, job security...is diff frm other workers? struggles @AnnLarsonNYC #mla13ChangerCharles 12/8/2012 9:54 Perhaps one need on earth remains for me, far beyond the mount of grading woes, the movement, the cause I led charge in when life was wholeOccupyMLA 12/8/2012 10:18 "@KempWrites: @occupymla @AnnLarsonNYC or $1100" INJUSTICE!! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/8/2012 16:25 Because MLA is NOT just any organization, it's the PRIMARY organization (mouthpiece) for an entire swath of the humanities. Join us! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/9/2012 5:12 RT @missoularedhead: Dear Mark Yudof, you paid $ for that new logo. Is this your idea of being a good graveyard keeper, sir?!OccupyMLA 12/9/2012 9:03 RT @GioFromOhio: Go do some research at adjunct http://t.co/aOKAgIWd and see how colleges pay squat and no benefits to instructors. #ACA #p2 http://project.comOccupyMLA 12/9/2012 9:04 RT @gerrycanavan: I fear the primary effect of the Adjunct Project 2.0?s augmented search will be to stabilize local wages at or near th ...OccupyMLA 12/9/2012 13:40 Tomorrow: the return of <hug> an adjunct day! #omla #mla13 (observed on a Monday of course)OccupyMLA 12/9/2012 14:45 It's a small but sweet way to show #adjuncts that they matter! #omla #mla13OccupyMLA 12/9/2012 14:53 @lindalevitt @readywriting Yeah but the <hugs> go out via Twitter so they'll find them wherever they are grading, stressing #mla13ChangerCharles 12/9/2012 14:59 Ah, the travesty that this motley fool has usurped both scepter & the magic pen with which we write the bulls!OccupyMLA 12/9/2012 16:57 RT @readywriting: More Thoughts from an ?Old? PhD http://t.co/wwFfBzyh So no one has any thoughts my proposal to help #adjuncts? #mla13 ... http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/college-ready-writing/more-thoughts-%E2%80%9Cold%E2%80%9D-phd#.UMS6pBlBsqU.twitterOccupyMLA 12/9/2012 16:57 RT @lindalevitt: @occupymla @readywriting A-OK. Sending <hug> Tweets and RL <hugs> tomorrow too.OccupyMLA 12/9/2012 17:35 If you're an adjunct, let us know with a hashtag: #adjunct #omla #mla13 Hug-an-adjunct Day 12OccupyMLA 12/9/2012 22:10 Tomorrow's <hug> an adjunct day includes NTT and other offTT PhDs! Just use the #adjunct hashtag! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/10/2012 0:15 Your PhD is never too stale for a <hug>! Hug-an-adjunct day 2morrow 12/10! Tweet #adjunct if you'd like a <hug> Spread the love #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/10/2012 5:04 RT @Jessifer: We need more tenure-track & full-time faculty willing to advocate for their colleagues & students. #highered needs ...OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 5:12 RT @trentmkays: RE this tweet: http://t.co/AGB09APc. Actually, #highered needs more action & less pontificating. Advocating is nothi ... http://j.mp/U8gnVFChangerCharles 12/10/2012 9:25 With each comma splice I mark, I chip away at the cliffside of ache...OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 13:25 <hug> an adjunct day begins bright & early! Send out your hugs or say that you'd like one with the #adjunct hashtag #mla13OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 14:16 @pswartzpk <hug> for the RT!OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 14:18 @dr_tindall @noeljackson <hugs> for the RT. Spread the hugs to those who need 'em! Support the contingent!OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 14:21 @ShanteParadigm @sharon_sdbk <hugs> for the retweet! Now give em to those who need 'em!OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 14:23 Note: these <hugs> are hugs of support and appreciation, not creepy lingering hugs! #mla13 <hug> an #adjunct!OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 14:29 @Grunt81 yep <hugs> to all the contingent! MA, MFA, ABD, Ph.D., MSW, etc.!OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 14:30 @EKSwitaj <hug> for the RT!OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 14:32 @Exhaust_Fumes sending in the <hugs> to all the exhausted!OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 14:34 @jodiacampbell sounds like you could use a <hug>! Help celebrate <hug> an #adjunct day. Pass it on!OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 14:37 @AnnabethAlbert sending you a <hug> for your grading hell on Friday. Pass it on. <hug> an #adjunct day 2012!OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 14:38 @danialexis you're not an #adjunct as far as we know, but sounds like you need this <hug> today! Hope it gets better!OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 14:42 @cobraforphd for all you do, have a <hug>! We support you! #adjunctOccupyMLA 12/10/2012 15:00 One of our first <hugs> goes out to @readywriting. Sounds like she could use one! #mla13 #adjunctOccupyMLA 12/10/2012 15:05 If you see someone getting a <hug> today, give 'em more! They deserve 'em! <hug> an #adjunct day #mla13OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 15:30 Got to send a double <<hug>> out to @savasavasava who is always generous with the <hugs> rt when we need them! #mla13 #adjunctOccupyMLA 12/10/2012 16:17 @savasavasava 3x<hugs> for getting well soon!OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 16:30 Sending out a <hug> to @Grunt81 today on <hug> an adjunct day!OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 17:10 Unlike a job or benefits, anyone can offer a <hug>, so please send them out to adjuncts, pt fac, NTT, & offTT #adjunct #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/10/2012 17:21 @katypearce <hugs> for the RT!OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 17:22 @TeachGuz <hugs> for spreading the word!OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 17:50 @katypearce Yes, too many tenured profs forget they were once adjuncts! #mla13 #solidarity!OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 17:51 @roychristopher <hug> for the retweet!OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 17:51 Big <hug> to @VCVaileNFM and all she does to promote #adjunct rights!OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 17:55 @jenniegoloboy non-creepy <hug> for the retweet!OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 18:10 Great BIG <hug> to @NewFacMajority & all the adjuncts they represent! #adjunct #mla13OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 19:45 A <hug> goes out to @AnnLarsonNYC Big warm arms around comrade in arms! #mla13 #adjunctOccupyMLA 12/10/2012 20:10 It's super easy to make reservations for #MLA13. Hotels deals only till the 12th for registered members! #omlaOccupyMLA 12/10/2012 20:26 Big <hug> to @Professorisin (Professor is In & Professor Risin'!) who helps so many of us find meaningful work!OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 20:33 RT @NewFacMajority: @occupymla BIG group <hug> right back from #newfac & #adjuncts everywhere @eValerick @akronadjunct @debral ...OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 21:10 They call you a lecturer but your class is totally flipped! We call you Professor! <hug> #adjunct #mla13OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 22:15 Jolly green <hug> to @adjuncthulk -- if he's still around. YOU ALWAYS KEEP OMLA LAUGHING! #mla13 #adjunctOccupyMLA 12/10/2012 23:00 Because a <hug> is not enough to make up for the disparity in pay, job security, & respect! #mla13 #omla <hug> an #adjunct Day!OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 23:03 @1hova Sending you a <hug> for that comment on poor compensation! <hug> an #adjunct day continues!OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 23:05 @phdeviate Big <hug> to you on the RT and congratulations on your new job!!OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 23:07 @cayden <hug> to you today as a small sign of appreciation for all your hard work!OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 23:09 RT @MariaMaistoNFM: @VCVaileNFM @occupymla @DebraLeighScott Deadline for #MLA elections today! Please vote -- many cont fac &CC fa ...OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 23:12 @cayden Standing up for and standing WITH! We are planning some exciting new demonstrations w some comrades! More to come!OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 23:20 Don't miss a chance to <hug> an adjunct today or request a hug w the #adjunct hashtag! #mla13 (incl. NTT, OffTT, p-t, etc.)OccupyMLA 12/10/2012 23:31 @megavark <hug> for the retweet!OccupyMLA 12/11/2012 4:00 We even offer <hugs> to the haters & exploiters & neglecters! Call it the amnestyhug! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/11/2012 4:00 When people say a <hug> is too small a gesture of solidarity & respect, give them a <hug>! <hug> an #adjunct day! #mla13ChangerCharles 12/11/2012 4:25 Enough! Enough! Let me in @juanahang before you ruin another golden opportunity! You are making a mockery of this again!OccupyMLA 12/11/2012 4:45 <hugs> to all those #adjuncts #newfac who teach with us & have taught us! We thank you!! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/11/2012 5:00 Another terrific <hug> an #adjunct day!!! Now let's turn that <hug> power into meaningful reform in Higher Education! #mla13 #omlaChangerCharles 12/11/2012 6:41 RT @SarahEBond: December 10, 536 CE: Belisarius marched his army into Rome and reclaimed it for Justinian. The Goths fled to Ravenna to ...juanahang 12/11/2012 13:30 @ChangerCharles So, you're telling me you want back in? Really, Dude?ChangerCharles 12/11/2012 13:40 @juanahang Clearly, you are in over your head. It seems unlikely you will be able to sustain the account on your own.juanahang 12/11/2012 13:45 @ChangerCharles So, I need your help now, do I? Don't think I can pull it off, eh?ChangerCharles 12/11/2012 13:50 Well. RT: @juanahang: @ChangerCharles So, I need your help now, do I? Don't think I can pull it off, eh?juanahang 12/11/2012 14:00 @ChangerCharles You know I don't trust you. Could NOT WOULD NOT trust you, rt?ChangerCharles 12/11/2012 14:06 Of course. RT @juanahang: @ChangerCharles You know I don't trust you. Could NOT WOULD NOT trust you, rt?juanahang 12/11/2012 14:15 @ChangerCharles So I let you in and you change the password again. Why wouldn't you?ChangerCharles 12/11/2012 14:25 @juanahang I am sure there are some controls that could be set into place, an arrangement, something you know abt me, could reveal abt me.juanahang 12/11/2012 14:50 @ChangerCharles I'll think abt it. Maybe could use your help. and Hazel'sOccupyMLA 12/11/2012 16:11 @vcvailenfm @AdjunctHulk definitely has a VOICE to lend @theAdjunctVoice! +1 All in this tegether! #mla13 #adjunct <hugs>!juanahang 12/11/2012 16:55 Okay @ChangerCharles I changed the password back to what you set it as. U can go ahead and tweet. But remember you lock me out, I tell all!ChangerCharles 12/11/2012 16:56 And so once more, I re-enter the fray! Hell's hounds nor highest waves will hold me back! Charge!juanahang 12/11/2012 16:57 Christmas crackers, I hope that wasn't a mistake!OccupyMLA 12/11/2012 17:00 It is with heaviest regret we acknowledge #omla's work will not be completed any time soon. Join us! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/11/2012 17:20 Those who stand against us stand gainst those who raise the students struggling most, letting not our lowly status learning impede #mla13OccupyMLA 12/11/2012 17:30 The hour to challenge the status quo has long since past. The status quo must swiftly go! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/11/2012 18:01 A model text: "They did not underestimate the experience, skill, and bravery of their antagonists, but made their first blows count" #mla13OccupyMLA 12/11/2012 18:05 Our antagonists are inequities of pay, a paucity of respect, & a penury of prospect for all part-time & adjunct NTT alike! #mla13ChangerCharles 12/11/2012 18:10 Oh, how molded to our frame are the thrones of yesterday! It is good to be back!juanahang 12/11/2012 18:20 @ChangerCharles Glad to have you back, buddy! Nice tweets!ChangerCharles 12/12/2012 7:26 RT @The_book_girl: @ChangerCharles A simply brilliant article anyone interested in #highered needs to read: http://t.co/vDnEwm0C #edu http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2012/11/napster-udacity-and-the-academy/ChangerCharles 12/12/2012 7:28 @the_book_girl The notion of education "unbundled" is a delightful pun, even if I feel the cold breath of the death of a dream in this.OccupyMLA 12/12/2012 7:34 @prof_anne Hang in there! <hug>ChangerCharles 12/12/2012 7:53 @The_book_girl a chance to lecture even before a web camera would be divine compared to being locked in the dungeon marking papers w a mouseChangerCharles 12/12/2012 8:01 @The_book_girl a demo, you say, a demonstration of my lecturing, an audition reel? That will be my project then over the break!OccupyMLA 12/12/2012 8:03 @prof_anne we all are in the middle of it this time of year. Got to be props for one another!ChangerCharles 12/12/2012 8:30 What was that song I recall distantly: where freedom is marked by having nothing to left to lose?ChangerCharles 12/12/2012 9:51 In spite of all that I have suffered in her absence, there has only ever been the one, and her back remains firmly to my face.

ChangerCharles 12/12/2012 9:52 Sleep has stolen away from me like an ungrateful servant bestowed with unwarranted confidence!OccupyMLA 12/12/2012 13:35 Shall we fiddle while Rome burns? Or at least becomes overrun with hoards of underemployed PhDs? #mla13ChangerCharles 12/12/2012 14:32 RT @theUL: Book of Deer, earliest Scottish manuscript goes online: http://t.co/foCAQpLQ #cudl http://bit.ly/VC5g7dOccupyMLA 12/12/2012 15:30 As I survey the landscape since last into the Hootsuite I crept, sadly little is altered. #mla13 #omlaChangerCharles 12/12/2012 15:35 And yet it is a strange thing to return to a ship you last saw heading beneath the waves and now see washed up in the sunlight on the shoreOccupyMLA 12/12/2012 16:25 RT @betajames: What will higher ed ?disruption? do to health benefits? Job security?OccupyMLA 12/12/2012 17:25 I would say that the current state of the profession is shamelessly medieval, except medievals were much better to their academics #ml13juanahang 12/12/2012 17:30 @ChangerCharles It's awesome to see you back in there! You got a way with the Tweets!ChangerCharles 12/12/2012 17:40 @juanahang [Humbly bows head in gratitude]juanahang 12/12/2012 17:50 @ChangerCharles Now we just got to get @CompHaze back in there!Comphaze 12/12/2012 20:05 So today #profdarcy walks up to the part-timers office, two lattes in his hand. Mine was doubleshot, decaf, just like I like it.Comphaze 12/12/2012 20:10 we walk fo a while, far a way from the parttimers office -cant get far enough!! away from the writing center or even his office in the dept+Comphaze 12/12/2012 20:16 Classes are getting out so there are students everwhere, jamming the halls, blue books in hand, backpacks, noise, fear, fatigue +Comphaze 12/12/2012 20:21 And he goes Whats been going on with you lately? Youve seemed down. [pause where I look stupidly at him] Or dont you want to talk abt it? +Comphaze 12/12/2012 20:25 oh, nothing, I say, just feeling bad abt my chances in that job search, thats all. [and Im burying my nose in my latte] +Comphaze 12/12/2012 20:35 What do you have to worry abt? he asks... youre a terrifc candidate, exceptionalComphaze 12/12/2012 20:46 I tell him i feel like im just too well known. Nonesense says he. thats impossible. You seee that Writing Center?! Its never been better.Comphaze 12/12/2012 20:50 lays his hand on my wrist + looks me in the eyes his steel blue + says I want to tlk with u abt ur ideas 4 this place, you seem so creative.Comphaze 12/12/2012 20:55 And thats it. we nevr talk abt my awful evaluation, never talk abt the last 2 weeks when hes been walking right past me as tho im invisible+Comphaze 12/12/2012 21:02 thats it and were all find and dandy except I cant help but feel like there are two of him: One nice, One not there at all...Comphaze 12/12/2012 21:05 Except maybe there are 2, 3, 4,8 of me. and Ive lsot count.Comphaze 12/12/2012 21:10 and then he turns to me and says, Id like you to come to my evening class on Fri & say a few words abt the Writing Center.Comphaze 12/12/2012 21:15 & then I reply, the only way I know how. I spill my coffe all down the fron of me. #profdarcyComphaze 12/12/2012 21:20 and he laughs, next time u can just tell me u wanted a single shot. and he shows that dimple when he smilesComphaze 12/12/2012 21:25 i am a hopeless cause #profdarcy :)OccupyMLA 12/12/2012 21:54 RT @trentmkays: Foucault hates your shirt. #mlashirtsOccupyMLA 12/12/2012 22:05 Supercool news at #omla!! I'll let you all in on it tomorrow! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/13/2012 0:08 #mlashirts! Love it! Last year, we had our own tshirt design contest. Here was one of the harshreality subs: http://t.co/hqVTdGyX #mla13 http://ow.ly/i/lZ2LOccupyMLA 12/13/2012 0:11 This Chaucerian Tshirt was also a favorite #mlashirts #omlashirts #mla13 http://t.co/Ebzb1F3S http://ow.ly/i/meJCChangerCharles 12/13/2012 0:28 Oh, yes, I had indeed blocked those from my memories. Well, if we'd wanted dignity, we wouldn't be adjuncts. Onward team.ChangerCharles 12/13/2012 0:28 RT @CHRuins: Extraordinary photos combine teenage life from a bygone era with abandoned building that once... http://t.co/FNeAEXDK via @ ... http://bit.ly/UiwuQEOccupyMLA 12/13/2012 0:32 @readywriting bummer!!! We think you are awesome, Lee!!OccupyMLA 12/13/2012 0:50 Just remembered that someone submitted this tshirt to the contest, which I didn't get at the time http://t.co/R96n7A6e #mlashirts #mla13 http://ow.ly/i/nUwvOccupyMLA 12/13/2012 1:15 But the #omlashirts tshirt contest caused a bit of friction among us, friction I can say now is a thing of the past! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/13/2012 2:05 Again, big news tomorrow! Stay tuned! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/13/2012 4:52 RT @VCVaileNFM: Question: If you are a contingent faculty member in a non-union-friendly state...: Question: If you are a cont... http ...ChangerCharles 12/13/2012 8:35 He who hasn't had experience doesn't know what tricks Love plays. He's a fool who joins his ranks for he always seeks to harm his followersOccupyMLA 12/13/2012 14:30 Great news! We got one of our old members back!! #OMLA is strogner than ever! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/13/2012 14:34 RT @TheAdjunctVoice: @occupymla Thanks for the follow. Please share your #adjunctlament or #adjunctwin with us. Promoting the #adjunctv ...OccupyMLA 12/13/2012 14:34 RT @readywriting: @briancroxall @literarychica @bonstewart @allistelling @qui_oui MLA Convention - Now With More Hugs! #mlatshirtsOccupyMLA 12/13/2012 14:45 Yes, we got one of #omla's most vocal members back! We're all in this together!! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/13/2012 14:50 But still, this won't be like the #OMLA of #mla12. Like any movement, we've had a lot of growing pains since then but have emerged stronger.OccupyMLA 12/13/2012 15:00 We're fighting for the rights of all those sold the dream of being Profs by a system that now tells them to settle, make-do, give up! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/13/2012 16:05 Sick of tenured profs telling you you'll never profess? Join us! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/13/2012 16:28 Dude, what's with the witchhunt, really? What did we do to bump your beehive?OccupyMLA 12/13/2012 19:05 @savasavasava <3 and <hugs> thx for getting our back! You are awesome!!!OccupyMLA 12/13/2012 20:30 It is w a heavy heart but no small joy I have returned to #omla: joy that we could mount a 2nd stand but sadness that we are needed #mla13OccupyMLA 12/13/2012 20:32 Tell me, my tweets, what has changed? Has the profession improved? Are the acs still alting as their lone recourse? #mla13OccupyMLA 12/13/2012 21:30 It is beyond belief that it has been over a year since the need for #omla arose & the crisis in the profession has only gotten worse #mla13OccupyMLA 12/13/2012 22:28 @donnabickford Yes? Tell me more.OccupyMLA 12/13/2012 22:45 For those of you who have tweeted inquiries, I did find gainful employment since last year's debacle, tho nothing = my training! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/13/2012 22:50 My current employ cld be categorized under "Adding insult to injury" tho at least somewhat tied to the academy, v loosely defined #mla13OccupyMLA 12/13/2012 23:01 @brendabethman @DonnaBickford Clearly, no need to rehash old exchanges. I am happy for those who are happy w there altac jobs.OccupyMLA 12/13/2012 23:03 @brendabethman @DonnaBickford but for the sake of those who dream of the professoriate I merely wish things were...alt. #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/13/2012 23:20 @brendabethman @DonnaBickford yes, yes, understood. And my point is, I feel sorry for those who were sold a false dream of TT fac #mla13OccupyMLA 12/13/2012 23:22 @brendabethman @DonnaBickford And, I am sorry the academy is losing so many bright future profs, who are forced to give up that dreamOccupyMLA 12/13/2012 23:27 N.b. I have an altprof job this term, tho still in the ac & I would forfeit it in a heartbeat 4 a chance at my own course on a living wage!OccupyMLA 12/14/2012 0:30 Furthermore, I apologize for any dishonor I brought #omla or reprisal I brought upon any of its members thru my injudicious tweeting #mla13OccupyMLA 12/14/2012 2:40 mla#13 RT: @GhostProf: #mlatshirts <occupy>MLA</occupy>OccupyMLA 12/14/2012 4:30 #mla13 RT: @GhostProf: #mlatshirts <occupy>MLA</occupy>OccupyMLA 12/14/2012 6:40 It was a year ago, I made mistakes of a mortal nature only to fall on my sword, for treasonous acts #mla13OccupyMLA 12/14/2012 6:45 The bard: But pride it is that stirred me up: because of my pride, I must suffer woe for telling him such insulting words + #mla13OccupyMLA 12/14/2012 6:50 + and it is right that I should suffer woe. One does not know what good fortune is until he has made trial of evil #mla13OccupyMLA 12/14/2012 6:55 And with that, my exile has come to an end, as I am returned to #omla, none too soon! The ship of scholars is sinking fast #mla13ChangerCharles 12/14/2012 7:30 I could not have imagined that my return to my prior project would lift my spirits so or help me to forget the pain & loss in my personalifejuanahang 12/14/2012 7:35 @changercharles Nice to have you back, Dude! You have such a knack for this sort of thing!ChangerCharles 12/14/2012 7:57 RT @AbbeyTournament: Here at the Abbey Medieval Festival, we take pride in providing as authentic medieval festival experience as... htt ...Comphaze 12/14/2012 8:24 do u evr feel like other peoples online happiness is making u more unhappy? maybe just a holiday thing & insomnia #ineedsleepbadOccupyMLA 12/14/2012 14:30 Feeling dissed by the dissertation process? Join us! #mla13Comphaze 12/14/2012 14:31 Tonight I speak abt the Writing Center in #profdarcy's class. so crazy nervous. #dontscrewthisuphazelOccupyMLA 12/14/2012 14:34 RT @katinalynn: My response to the latest buzz about grad education reform is now up at @ProfHacker: http://t.co/wALsIqIE. Hope to discu ... http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/graduate-education-reform/45043OccupyMLA 12/14/2012 14:37 @savasavasava a get-well-<hug>ChangerCharles 12/14/2012 15:53 This is the part of the semester when I would have woken up later with my family, lingerd at the table to chat w my children; gone.OccupyMLA 12/14/2012 16:07 RT @_JoyCastro: "Spending on *instruction* has grown at a much slower pace?" College administrators, debt, & the "Edifice Complex": ...OccupyMLA 12/14/2012 16:27 @_JoyCastro no prob! Keep up the great tweets! You rockupy!OccupyMLA 12/14/2012 16:28 RT @_JoyCastro: Too bad neither administrators nor students were able to get excited about learning, thinking, or knowledge. http://t.co ...ChangerCharles 12/14/2012 18:32 I am trembling as I type this: I have just received news that I have made the cut for an interview for a full-time position!ChangerCharles 12/14/2012 18:35 A real position with a full-slate of classes, including lecturers with a possibility of one even including Medieval Literature. Astonishing!ChangerCharles 12/14/2012 18:40 Although it is not a job offer, I have the most uncanny sense that this job has my name on it. My minds eye sees the letterhead!ChangerCharles 12/14/2012 18:45 The only downside, and it is not negligible, is that the newly accredited university is half-way round the globe.ChangerCharles 12/14/2012 18:50 Accepting such a position, should I be chosen, would require pullingup stakes & probably giving up any chance of seeing my kids againChangerCharles 12/14/2012 18:55 Of course, it has been months since their mother made any attempt to contact me or even permitted me talk with them.Comphaze 12/14/2012 19:31 Wow @ChangerCharles Congratulations!!! You deserve it. Cant wait to hear all about it!ChangerCharles 12/14/2012 19:35 @CompHaze Thank you! Your support and forgiveness have meant a lot to me.OccupyMLA 12/14/2012 20:00 Zounds! Outrageous fortune! One of #OMLA has won a job interview for teaching position! Would have his own classes, benefits! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/14/2012 20:10 A job interview does not = an offer but the member is drunk w the possibility of 1 day having his own slate of courses! A podium! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/14/2012 20:20 Do not fear that such a windfall will slacken his resolve to fight for all the exploited who look to #OMLA for leadership! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/14/2012 21:20 Dude, I just read the tweets! Well done! Give me all the deets!ChangerCharles 12/14/2012 21:25 @juanahang Let's not have that conversation in the account.OccupyMLA 12/14/2012 21:26 @savasavasava sorry, sava! Now that there are two of in the h-suite, sometimes we want to message each other as omla & sometimes I forgetOccupyMLA 12/14/2012 21:30 Come on, man! R you on? You gotta tell more. When did you find out? What's the school?OccupyMLA 12/14/2012 21:31 @savasavasava We're a pretty lovable pair! <hugs>OccupyMLA 12/14/2012 21:35 Yes, of course, I'll elaborate but not here. (cf @savasavasava) As we used to say (& I can't believe I'm writing this again): backchannelOccupyMLA 12/14/2012 21:38 @savasavasava (whispering: might have to drag him - not much of a <hugger> - but bet his news will soften him up a bit ;) ) (<-double chin?)juanahang 12/14/2012 21:45 @ChangerCharles Okay, sorry, dude! Spill! When did you find out? What's the job?!ChangerCharles 12/14/2012 21:55 @juanahang Thank you. Read my twitterlog, & you'll see the full story, including a few snares and snarls.juanahang 12/14/2012 22:05 @ChangerCharles Woh, yea. A tough call if you get the call, eh? But it's an awesome sign either wayChangerCharles 12/14/2012 22:10 @juanahang Perhaps. I am attempting to contain myself & to take it only as a sign of my own good fortune for today.juanahang 12/14/2012 22:15 @ChangerCharles Got it, dude! But, most excellent! V cool! Can't wait to hear what happens!ChangerCharles 12/14/2012 23:49 I daresay for the first time since she drove off in the tercel, I feel positively giddy!OccupyMLA 12/14/2012 23:51 @ProfessorIsIn As fate would have it, one of us could use this! Let us know when you decide to schedule it! #mla13Comphaze 12/14/2012 23:54 Just moments away from presenting the Magic of the Writing Center Prezi in #profdarcy's class! Worked on it all night and it is killer!OccupyMLA 12/14/2012 23:57 MT @ProfessorIsIn: MLA folks might want another Interview Bootcamp Webinar prior to the meetings. If so, before or after Christmas?" #mla13OccupyMLA 12/15/2012 5:12 RT @chronicle: Senators call for investigation of #4profit colleges' artificially lowering default rates: http://t.co/fe7FS5CG #studentdebt http://chroni.cl/Y2lw8dChangerCharles 12/15/2012 5:20 RT @BibliOdyssey: Gorgeous 1515 Psalter manuscript heraldic frontispiece (plus a few more miniatures) http://t.co/boEFUVYI http://goo.gl/wj6rrOccupyMLA 12/15/2012 13:40 We are ALL #omla! #mla13 RT @noeljackson: I am #omla.OccupyMLA 12/15/2012 15:10 Does your #mla13 panel support #OMLA and highered reform? Let us know!OccupyMLA 12/15/2012 15:25 You can just tweet your session # with the #omla tag -- or you can just DM us! We'd like to visit friends at #mla13!ChangerCharles 12/15/2012 16:25 Joy unbridled joy has begun to seep into my head like the cracks formed on the ice by the kiss of the sun! a job!Comphaze 12/15/2012 16:31 back when I had a cat, i could never have slept in so gloriously long. so, about last night... :)

Comphaze 12/15/2012 16:35 I showd up at his classroom with my Prezi on a flash drive. i had a stack of handouts that of course spilled out on the way in the doorComphaze 12/15/2012 16:40 he was quick to help me pick them up, but as i was standing up, i realized no one was there. Im sorry, Hazel, he saidChangerCharles 12/15/2012 16:45 And I am dallying with this old lover of mine I had once called a strumpet, but I believe she goes by the name: HOPE!Comphaze 12/15/2012 16:51 You asked me to give the presentation today. I know, he said, but i forgot, Finals. We dindt even meet today. so sorryComphaze 12/15/2012 16:55 there are now 3 new flavours of ?fuck? you can say, under your breath of course. just invented them. youre welcome!Comphaze 12/15/2012 17:05 #profdarcy: (berating self) Im so sorry. i didnt have my head straight when i was talking with you. listen, let me make it up to youComphaze 12/15/2012 17:10 me: yes! make it up to me.....Comphaze 12/15/2012 17:16 #profdarcy: why don?t we go get dinner? are u doing anything now? Me: No, i was going to do you. * yes I did actually say, do you.OccupyMLA 12/15/2012 17:20 Beamin to see 2 #omla friends doing so stellar today! Turnin o the tide! The retrograde is switching gears to drive!! #mla13Comphaze 12/15/2012 17:20 and he doesnt miss a beat and brushes my arm gently and Im following him in my car to this little Mexican place he likesOccupyMLA 12/15/2012 17:24 Dream of a TT teaching job? Or maybe true love in the stacks? Keep that dream alive! Join us! #mla13ChangerCharles 12/15/2012 17:25 Technically, the position is not TT, but it IS fulltime and involves content courses! Lit surveys!Comphaze 12/15/2012 17:25 and the whole time Im thinking to myself, this is WAY better than my prezi!! (although my handouts rocked)OccupyMLA 12/15/2012 17:27 RT @StrikeDebt: "These loans should be free!" #communityspeakout #OccupySandy The people are rising #strikedebt http://t.co/qgJ2lKBu http://twitter.com/StrikeDebt/status/280000862670180352/photo/1Comphaze 12/15/2012 17:35 but will he tell me anthing abt the job? Maybe wants to break the news? Im dying to know so much i make a wrong turn & he has to come get meComphaze 12/15/2012 17:40 im never like this, i mean never, ive just lapsed into this role with him somehow cause of the job or whoknow i mean, this was wild & funComphaze 12/15/2012 17:45 dinner was good, not great, but we laughed abt a million things. i told him my sob story. what happened last year. how I got hereComphaze 12/15/2012 17:50 he told me all about his ex wife and 3 kids -- well, 1 kids his, and step kids. Didnt know abt that. But fine, rt? to be expected.ChangerCharles 12/15/2012 17:55 @CompHaze Watch out! Now there civilians involved: be cautious of collateral damage.Comphaze 12/15/2012 18:03 we didnt talk abotu the job but he kept saying how great it was to work w me and that next semester he wanted to work with me even *closer*Comphaze 12/15/2012 18:11 we left the restaurant and he walked me to my car, so I wouldnt get lost. ha ha, i said. but a little loud cause I had a few margaritasComphaze 12/15/2012 18:20 strange but one of the other fac. frm his dept. was there in the restraunt w her husband I think. weird being seen out together but whatevrComphaze 12/15/2012 18:25 and then we said goodbye but didnt kiss. just brushed cheeks on the goodby hug. a longish goodbye hug. and i went home and crashdComphaze 12/15/2012 18:31 Netflix anyone?OccupyMLA 12/15/2012 19:15 They taught you, they inspired you, they accepted you, they tested you -- then they told you to find another line of work. Join us! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/16/2012 0:54 RT @fbgtxmom: @readywriting A quote for Charlie Brown/Eeore: "Pessimists can school themselves to hope." -Sandefer/Siricojuanahang 12/16/2012 1:35 So cool to have the band back together! We just need you @comphaze! You gotta come back! It's a blast!Comphaze 12/16/2012 1:45 @juanahang sorry, ive got my own thing going on -- chance a new job, new love -- you boys play for me, k?juanahang 12/16/2012 2:05 @CompHaze aight, if that's how it is. Just happy to hear you so happy! <hug>Comphaze 12/16/2012 2:10 @juanahang happy to be happy! to have the happiness call me up -- and im actually sitting by the phone! im ready this time!ChangerCharles 12/16/2012 4:36 On the brink of having my dreams fulfilled, I still raise my quiet cry: what did I do to lose it all?ChangerCharles 12/16/2012 7:26 Deepest apologies. I may have misfired with that last missive. The job interview is still forthcoming -- my despair lies elsewhere.OccupyMLA 12/16/2012 9:35 RT @VCVaileNFM: Call for images of #adjunctoffices & office hours held in unusual or substandard...: Call for images of #adjunct... ...juanahang 12/16/2012 11:03 good night at the restaurant! Saturdays before the holidays are the hellz and the bellz!OccupyMLA 12/16/2012 15:25 Believe that your dreams of becoming a professor could actually come true? Join us! #mla13 #omlaComphaze 12/16/2012 15:31 slept in 4 the 2nd day in a row. 1st time all semester for that -- thinking of laughtr w #profdarcy over tacos, stupid smile wont washoff!OccupyMLA 12/16/2012 15:53 RT @academicdave: I hereby declare today the day of epic blue book grading.OccupyMLA 12/16/2012 18:40 Because it's not actually a failing to want the thing you trained and tested and thesis-ed for! Join us! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/16/2012 19:40 If your panel is #omla friendly, tweet it out with the hashtag #mla13 Looking for friends to visit!Comphaze 12/16/2012 21:25 Seeing how things are lining up (#profdarcy, job, life) i feel as if last year hasbeen somehow erased like the quiz lowest grade!juanahang 12/16/2012 21:35 @CompHaze Hey! Did you hear about the job yet? When's your interview???!!!!OccupyMLA 12/16/2012 21:36 RT @VCVaileNFM: Turning Up the Volume on #GradEdReform?@katinalynn's guest post @ProfHacker in #Chronicle http://t.co/BrpdiHWo #jobs? @o ... http://bit.ly/T2EAjaComphaze 12/16/2012 21:45 @juanahang no, not yet, but i have this tingling in my cozy socks that the news is going to come in tomorrow!ChangerCharles 12/16/2012 21:55 Clearly @CompHaze you would be having more fun if you rejoined us for our current exploits. Have you considered it?Comphaze 12/16/2012 22:01 @ChangerCharles like I told @juanahang, Im really happy things are going so well fro you both, but Im in a really good place rt nowChangerCharles 12/16/2012 22:05 @CompHaze If you insist. Remember, however, that we do it not necessarily for ourselves as much as others who need our advocacy.Comphaze 12/16/2012 22:10 @ChangerCharles yes, i understand. but i think i might foronce need a little me time -- a chance just to enjoy whats going onChangerCharles 12/16/2012 22:15 Yes. I can understand how that might be a very tempting option. You have suffered sufficiently in less-than-fortunate circumstances.Comphaze 12/16/2012 22:20 @ChangerCharles im not asking for anybodys pity. ive just got my rainbow by the tail, and Im not letting this tiger go!juanahang 12/16/2012 22:25 @CompHaze @ChangerCharles Eenie, meenie, minie! :)Comphaze 12/16/2012 22:35 @juanahang @ChangerCharles Mo! :) glad to see you both back in it! Go get 'em!juanahang 12/16/2012 22:45 @CompHaze @ChangerCharles Why do I feel so much like the Scarecrow or what was his name in the book? Hunk or something like that?Comphaze 12/16/2012 22:50 @ChangerCharles @juanahang Oh, dont worry. youre such a hunk. :) <hug>OccupyMLA 12/16/2012 23:00 In your argument for the value of your PhD, don't let MLA become just a parenthetical! Join us! #mla13 #omlaComphaze 12/16/2012 23:05 @ChangerCharles @juanahang cute. which one of you was that?juanahang 12/16/2012 23:15 @CompHaze @ChangerCharles [raises hand] Guilty as charged. ;)Comphaze 12/17/2012 0:31 Feeling such a glow, seriously considering treating myself to some Pandora charms: the pokemon of womens jewelry!Comphaze 12/17/2012 4:15 having a bit of follow frenzy tonite while indulging in a slice of tiramisu -- so many cool people ive been too shy to follow on TwitterComphaze 12/17/2012 4:17 but my life is taking a turn and I just have this sense that tomorrow Ill here back on the job, run into #profdarcy in the hall... :)Comphaze 12/17/2012 6:39 tho my life seems to be finally hitting its stride, am a zombinsomniac thinking of the many dead in CT and their poor families...Comphaze 12/17/2012 7:26 I dont know if I should even admit this, but ive put off getting a cat for fear it is my destiny #catladiesactivateComphaze 12/17/2012 7:28 i wonder how #profdarcy feels abt cats? wouldnt it be crazy if he is even more a cat person than I am!Comphaze 12/17/2012 7:29 that I complete (or compete against) his cat journey. #ineeedsleeepComphaze 12/17/2012 13:46 sun didnt come up today. were the Mayans right? :)Comphaze 12/17/2012 14:11 but today is a big, big day! i gotta feeling! [does little dance to my closet]OccupyMLA 12/17/2012 14:15 Your job may be out there--just half way around the world. Call it globaliteraturization & keep your passport handy! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/17/2012 14:46 Or call it transnational academia -- whatever the name, the Pacific Rim & Middle East are still ravenous for Lit PhDs! #mla13juanahang 12/17/2012 16:27 Peeking out from under my mountain of grading. End in sight! Never thought cooking and professoring would balance so well, but they do.juanahang 12/17/2012 16:29 Cooking (i.e. a ?real job?) puts the pampered gloom of professordom into perspeck, AND, somehow gives me more empathy for academes.juanahang 12/17/2012 16:34 AND AND, believe it or don?t, it's all making me want to get back to my writing on Ossian and Addison and Steele. Go figure. Ah, balance!juanahang 12/17/2012 16:36 Not writing to escape guilt, but rsch and writing for the love of it, Imagine! Change and balance, balance and change!ChangerCharles 12/17/2012 16:48 Preping my job talk - 1-hour lecture on Chr?tien! My head's about 2 leave my neck -Comphaze 12/17/2012 17:04 letter in my box from the chair! COME SEE ME PLEASE. this is it! hello!!OccupyMLA 12/17/2012 18:01 RT @readywriting: It's official: My PhD is outdated and I am now umemployable in a TT job in academia. Good enough to teach your Ss, but ...OccupyMLA 12/17/2012 18:02 @readywriting we love you, Lee! Don't give up!! This is a travesty! <hug> proof the system is broken!!OccupyMLA 12/17/2012 18:03 When great minds are used then dismissed by the academy #highered will fail !! #omla #mla13 (cc @readywriting)OccupyMLA 12/17/2012 18:37 RT @StrikeDebt: Double your debt liberation dollar by giving in someone else's name! Donate at http://t.co/FfgMlxQw & fill out a car ... http://ow.ly/g6EXyComphaze 12/17/2012 20:03 wtf wtf wtf WTF!!!!Comphaze 12/17/2012 20:06 walkinto the chairs office, set donw my books and shes there smiling at me. Hazel, Hazel, how are you? Thanks fro coming in.Comphaze 12/17/2012 20:12 chair: I wanted to meet with yyou sepcial due to all that fine work youve been doing in the Writing Center. u know the students ADORE uComphaze 12/17/2012 20:16 sorry fingers not working rght now. im so pssed.Comphaze 12/17/2012 20:21 chair: and this job lookd like it was going to be such a perfect fit for you, a golden opportunity. yesshesaid golde!n opportunityComphaze 12/17/2012 20:32 chair: but in retroscpect, perhaps it wasnt the best year for you to apply, your 1st year and all and -- [wait for it]Comphaze 12/17/2012 20:35 chari: there was that matter of your observation. now, i know it wasnt your best class & i told the committe to look the other wayComphaze 12/17/2012 20:46 Err:510OccupyMLA 12/17/2012 20:50 Will all #omla supporters be allowed to enter #mla13 or only those with badges? Where will our zuccotti park be?Comphaze 12/17/2012 20:51 chair: but, its jus not the right year for you. im sorry. we know youll be ready the next year that a job like this opens up.Comphaze 12/17/2012 20:55 Err:510Comphaze 12/17/2012 21:06 me: oh oh yes, im so sorry. I SAID IT. Im sorry?? wtf wtf wtf wtf wftt!!!Comphaze 12/17/2012 21:10 and then i walked out of there. said IMFCKINGSORRY anD wALKED out of there!! straigt to my desk. then into my carComphaze 12/17/2012 21:16 -- and sat in the parking lot and cried like a stupd middle schooler who wasnt askd to the big dance. like a astupd waste!Comphaze 12/17/2012 21:21 dammitComphaze 12/17/2012 21:26 and i am dONEOccupyMLA 12/17/2012 21:55 The few who landed interviews shouldn't have to feel like dogs at the kennel, nor those without feel like mutts! Join us! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/17/2012 23:20 :-) #omla RT @MLAconvention: Go here. Find friends to meet up with, frenemies to maybe see, foes to avoid: http://t.co/hLGktfIF #mla13 http://mla13.org/people/OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 0:57 RT @katinalynn: Cannot wait to see how folks use this. RT @MLAconvention: Go here. Find out how to be part of #MLACommons. http://t.co/H ...OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 0:59 RT @katinalynn: Note the built-in hashtag links so you can tweet the sessions! RT @MLAconvention: Go here. Search. Be happy. http://t.co ...ChangerCharles 12/18/2012 1:01 RT @SusanAbernethy2: @HopeSteffen In a word YES! Sad to say a lot of people still think of the Middle Ages as the 'dark ages'. But univ ...ChangerCharles 12/18/2012 1:01 RT @SusanAbernethy2: @HopeSteffen & cathedrals were built that are still standing. Not to mention the illuminated manuscripts! :)ChangerCharles 12/18/2012 2:11 RT @perurealfonso: A new book on Jews in (mostly) medieval north-western Spain: http://t.co/47gVC0Jb out of this 2008 conf.: http://t.co ... http://www.marcialpons.es/libros/el-mundo-judio-en-la-peninsula-iberica/9788495414946/ChangerCharles 12/18/2012 2:11 RT @SusanAbernethy2: Charlemagne is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III on December 25, 800 AD. He is referred to as the... http ...ChangerCharles 12/18/2012 2:57 RT @Medievalists: Fishing with Monks ? Padise Abbey and the River Vantaanjoki from 1351 to 1429 http://t.co/r4iniQQy http://ow.ly/g9h84OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 3:00 RT @DeltaProf: Bring your comments on reforming doctoral education, MLA Boston, Jan. 4th. http://t.co/eKsqrLFb #mla13 #S394 http://mla13.org/394OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 3:38 RT @NewFacMajority: Adjunct Faculty Association, Pittsburgh, a multiple campus #adjunct union, now has a Facebook page. Mark your... htt ...OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 3:38 RT @MelMarGon: Excited for http://t.co/LjKAZCSV #mla13 #S199 @ShanteParadigm 's #mla13 panel. http://mla13.org/199OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 3:48 @bendprof I use an andy. No probs. But you are online, rt?OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 4:02 @BendProf just tried the search (using the Twitter app) on andy, w wifi, no errors. <shrug>OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 4:03 @BendProf OccupyTechFail. :)OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 4:09 @bendprof weird. Tried again just to be sure. No problem. You're on wireless, not network -- what model phones (out of curiosity)?OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 4:15 @bendprof My phone's a dinosaur next to your cyborg. You've got the burstshot, tho -- [jealous] But I am also using the stock browser

OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 4:21 @bendprof oh, I'm still on Gingerbread, so maybe that's it...OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 4:27 @bendprof You just got actually helpful tech support from a Prof! (@academicdave)OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 4:35 @bendprof Hubby's are great too! Thought it was @academicdave's solution. Saved you some serious conference bag bulge and paper flipping!OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 4:37 @bendprof I'm totally impressed with all @mlaconvention has been doing: commons, program, and as always the tweets.OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 4:38 @mlaconvention is facilitating the online discussion in ways that conventions are usually really BAD at. Looking forward to Boston! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 4:40 Ended with a preposition just to score a point with (grate) our beloved tweeps! <hugs>Comphaze 12/18/2012 5:25 how did i get to be like this? was it abuse while getting the phd? abuse as a pt instructor? abuse applyign for all those jobs? pointlessComphaze 12/18/2012 5:30 three hours! i sat in my car in a spot in front of my building. paralyzed. immobilized with failComphaze 12/18/2012 5:35 3 hours #ishityounotComphaze 12/18/2012 5:35 @justmeloo21 thnx its just today was the day itall came downComphaze 12/18/2012 5:40 i was trying to think of the last time i felt that my job or my studies or this litshit delivered on its promisesComphaze 12/18/2012 5:45 and for all its garbage, there was one place where i felt like i was actually making a difference. felt like i was being heard!Comphaze 12/18/2012 5:50 but that was also the one place that cost me my dream, my once chance at being happy if that was even possibel.Comphaze 12/18/2012 5:55 OK fuck it. unacceptable. im not going to sit for it. play me like a fool and it has to come down. NOWComphaze 12/18/2012 6:02 @juanahang I think Im readyjuanahang 12/18/2012 6:05 Really? Are you playing me? RT CompHaze: @juanahang I think Im ready.Comphaze 12/18/2012 6:15 @juanahang really. I want back in. RIGTH NOW. Im ready. ive been through enough.juanahang 12/18/2012 6:20 @CompHaze I know, I was watching..but I thought you wanted to keep your distance so you wouldn?t get burned again.Comphaze 12/18/2012 6:25 @juanahang noplace left to be burnedjuanahang 12/18/2012 6:30 @CompHaze I'm so sorry about all thatshit! It doesn't make sense, tho, you were a lock for that job! After all you did for the WC!!Comphaze 12/18/2012 6:35 @juanahang all I ask is you watch my back around Charles. i cant do that last year againjuanahang 12/18/2012 6:40 @CompHaze dude?s totally changed, lost EVERYTHING when his wife left w the kids. All his -- you know, whatver -- the pretense & pomp - bam!juanahang 12/18/2012 6:45 @CompHaze I mean, you?ve been watching us this year, rt? TOTALLY different? Flipped the egg. Sunnyside up!Comphaze 12/18/2012 6:50 @juanahang well, ill believe it when I see it -- in person -- if thats all right with you.juanahang 12/18/2012 6:55 @CompHaze I got your back. Always have! <hug>Comphaze 12/18/2012 7:01 thnx! RT @juanahang: @CompHaze I got your back. Always have.juanahang 12/18/2012 7:05 @CompHazeBut there is ONE requirement for when you come back in the account.Comphaze 12/18/2012 7:10 yes? RT @juanahang: @CompHazeBut there is ONE requirement for when you come back in the account.juanahang 12/18/2012 7:20 @CompHaze you gotta start using apostrophes! ''''''Comphaze 12/18/2012 7:25 Not on your life! its my thang! :) RT @juanahang: @CompHaze you gotta start using apostrophes. | Sign me up!OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 14:08 RT @gerrycanavan: Questions They Might Ask You at Your #MLA2013 Interview http://t.co/iAF1LjoN #goodluck http://bit.ly/TuEy2hOccupyMLA 12/18/2012 14:13 @AnotherPhD2B <hug>OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 14:15 @ShanteParadigm way to go!OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 14:17 @noeljackson are you kidding?OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 14:30 So stoked! Today we welcome back another former member of #OMLA! Sooo awesome to have her back! She's been thru a lot! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 14:35 @noeljackson y of courseOccupyMLA 12/18/2012 14:45 Please, give her some <hugs> She had a heckuva time in #omla & an even worse time after #mla12OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 14:57 @readywriting I don't think she's on yet. Let me see if I can get her to start tweeting.OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 15:01 @readywriting it's AMAZING to have her back. Altho she's back bc things went way south for her recently, South America South!OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 15:08 @readywriting will do!!Comphaze 12/18/2012 15:41 okay @juanahang Im going in! wish me luck. watch my back!OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 15:45 yes, its nice to be back. or weird to be back. but its been a long time coming, and im glad, yes, actually glad im back. #mla13OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 15:50 thank you for all who tweeted kind words of support during my difficult time last year #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/18/2012 15:55 things didnt go so well 4 me lasttime thru, as some of you know, lost my intervw but this year i found out how much I needed OMLA #mla13OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 16:05 someones got to stand up for adjuncts or else we get royally screwd, played like tired ringtones for exploit-adjunct booty calls #mla13OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 16:08 @savasavasava nice to see u again or nice for u to be able to see me again. i missed tweeting with u and was so jealous when the boys wereOccupyMLA 12/18/2012 16:15 or else they outright lie to us, deceive us, make us think they support us but really just want to use us, our labor #mla13OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 16:20 so it took a lot of sole soul searching, lots of gettin my act together on my own, getting kickd to the curb to get over last year #mla13OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 16:30 some of you might remember what happend to my interview cause of my assoctn. with #omla. lost a golden opportunity. #mla13OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 16:35 what you dont know is the entirety of last year, how I found some work at a writing center, got led on abt a job, passd over #mla13OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 16:45 so it was a long road to here, where I can come back & rejoin #omla & try to advocate for your rights & stand up for my own and say: #mla13OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 16:55 Tired of getting used & abused like an English dept. copy machine? JOIN US! #OMLA Cause its not your fault you keep jamming! #MLA13OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 17:33 @readywriting does more for the profession than all of the old guard combined & anyone who cant see that should be forced to adjunct 4 lifeOccupyMLA 12/18/2012 17:45 Welcoming back our long lost sister!! We were just not the same without you! You're awesome! Long live #omla! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 18:01 Group <hug> #OMLA! Come on, everybody in!OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 18:05 Less hugging, more occupying.OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 18:15 Ah, man, don't play that way. You know you love it. <bigbearhug>ChangerCharles 12/18/2012 18:23 They are going to make me regret my return, I can tell already. Breathe...breathe...OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 18:24 RT @savasavasava: @occupymla everything starts with a hug ;)OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 19:05 Seeing fresh wounds inflicted on one of our own has snapped stuff clear in my lil? noggin. A question for you #MLA13 #OMLAOccupyMLA 12/18/2012 19:10 #MLA13 #OMLA Ahoy, tenured faculty! A simple question for you: Are we (?term/contingent? faculty) equal to you or not?OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 19:15 #MLA13 #OMLA Are term/contingents equal to tenureds? Doesn?t matter what the answer is, but we want to hear you say it. Who?ll answer?OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 19:20 #MLA13 #OMLA Before the haters leap in: I?m NOT trying to be divisive. Just real. Equal or not? Let?s face it and then discuss amicably!OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 19:25 #MLA13 #OMLA Equal or no? It?s just like talking openly re: Aunt X?s alcoholism at the family holiday gathering.1st: honesty. 2nd: remedyOccupyMLA 12/18/2012 19:26 RT @digiwonk: @occupymla equal professional credential. equal potential and capacity. differential experience in various roles, differen ...OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 19:39 @digiwonk good starter listt! "differential experience" maybe not since tenure [does not necessarily equal] seniority #omla do I misconstru?ChangerCharles 12/18/2012 20:25 RT @monarchyconf: Forthcoming: 'The Name of the Queen' Beem and Moore (eds.), William Fleetwood's Itinerarium ad Windsor and female rule ...ChangerCharles 12/18/2012 20:25 RT @b_hawk: New blog post on the recent Literature Compass issue, "Reflections on 'E-Medieval'": http://t.co/aSKrse4X http://trunc.it/momu9OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 20:30 #MLA13 #OMLA Decorum & social norms scream: Don?t Ask Don?t Answer. Nvrtheless we ask: Are term/contingents equal to tenureds?OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 21:23 @digiwonk Yes, yes I see now! [knocks forehead with fist] Right you are! #omla TT and #adjuncts "different supports" for sure. less scaffoldOccupyMLA 12/18/2012 21:34 @digiwonk Are they differently skilled, or merely differently networked? At my place we have both wise #adjuncts and clueless tenured #omlaChangerCharles 12/18/2012 21:56 RT @SirKenRobinson: Educating the heart and the mind. An especially resonant message this week. http://t.co/YUf2ZrfJ http://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/54303086OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 22:00 #MLA13 #OMLA Contents of room: 10s of 10Ks of hard working well meaning educators and 1 elephant. All good folk. Pesky Pachyderm. Lets talk!ChangerCharles 12/18/2012 22:01 @juanahang No need to be facetious. You know they will not, cannot answer that question or even tolerate it in the rhetorical.OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 22:15 Getting bakchannel flak Transparent answer: Not angry, righteously indignated Not intented 2B indignified.OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 22:30 #MLA13 #OMLA As docs fear not blood, we critical thinkers need not fear a simple question. Are term fac equal to tenured fac?juanahang 12/18/2012 22:57 @changercharles If they even hold it in their noggins for a 1/1000 sec it is a victory! To think the impossible thunk.OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 23:35 #MLA13 #OMLA We will give you a penny for your thoughts. Are term fac equal to tenured fac?OccupyMLA 12/18/2012 23:54 RT @melvillehouse: Join us Saturday 1/5/13 at 6:30, after the "Melville Occupies Wall Street" panel. https://t.co/0Yk7uQ0q @occupymla #MLA13 https://www.facebook.com/events/175714919237161OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 0:25 #MLA13 #OMLA Question of the day still rides for all to ponder. Yes or no suffices. Are term/contingent faculty equal to tenured faculty?OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 7:35 RT @noeljackson: Ne'er doubt / *This* -- when I speak, I *don't hint,* but *speak out.* #Byron #noSubtweetsChangerCharles 12/19/2012 8:20 The full impact of my forthcoming job interview has yet to sink in. Each night I find myself more and more elated!Comphaze 12/19/2012 12:55 reuniting with former comrades in arms for a worthy cause fighting all i hate might be just what it takes to help me not to feel so shittyOccupyMLA 12/19/2012 13:45 A Modest Proposal for the Reform of Academe: reintroduce dueling into ac discourse LOL http://t.co/BMyATZzL by @newfacmajority #mla13 http://ow.ly/gdvNaChangerCharles 12/19/2012 14:08 RT @PostFilm: Shakespeare English Unskills Decelerated: Witty Will-power and Bardic Gender Politics http://t.co/GZ0aBMPU #johnson #puns ... http://english-skills-success.blogspot.com/2012/10/witty-will-power-and-bardic-gender.html?spref=twChangerCharles 12/19/2012 14:09 RT @SarahEBond: Only at a holiday party w/ academics & archaeologists would I be asked to explain how to slaughter and sacrifice a s ...ChangerCharles 12/19/2012 14:10 The job interview has also emboldened me to step out of the shadows, out from behind the pillars of the transepts & into the nave!ChangerCharles 12/19/2012 14:11 RT @CathHanley: Right, in honour of the Feast of the Blessed William (see earlier), a silly medieval challenge for you all ...ChangerCharles 12/19/2012 14:16 RT @David_Works: 19 December 1154: Theobald, (c.1090?1161), archbishop of #Canterbury, crowned Henry of Anjou (5 March 1133?6 July 1189) ...OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 14:20 Last year, one of us had just lost an interview; this year, another's still forthcoming! The market is fickle! Join us! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 15:15 I would like to know who was running the account when we commenced following some of these Twitter handles. Bizarre.OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 15:35 @RealCapnCrunch @usbigirls Really?

OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 15:36OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 15:40 Really?Comphaze 12/19/2012 16:15 time to rejoin the heroes, my heroes, the voices tweeting out against hypocrisy and exploitation in higheredOccupyMLA 12/19/2012 16:20 the invisible hand of the market generally gives PhDs the finger! Join us! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/19/2012 16:30 they taught you to critique abuses of gender, power, & privilege and then illustratd the abuses on your raw backside! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/19/2012 16:50 our dignity cannot be a function of our job prospects! join us! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/19/2012 17:20 though your position is contingent, your self-worth is not! Join us! #mla13 #omlajuanahang 12/19/2012 17:35 This is my "80% Done With Grading" dance. Note the precision of the hand positions. And the leaps. Not every term fac can do THAT, my friendjuanahang 12/19/2012 17:38 @CompHaze How ya doin' today? Yer been a bit volatile an jus wancha to know we're thinkin of ye. here's a <hug> left over from MondayOccupyMLA 12/19/2012 18:08 #MLA13 #OMLA The unsurprising answer to yesterday?s question: No, tenured faculty and #adjuncts term/contingent faculty are NOT equal.OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 18:21 #MLA13 #OMLA Proof of tenure/adjunct inequality, you ask? Goog a gander at http://t.co/lmUbABUE http://www.adjunctproject.comOccupyMLA 12/19/2012 18:22 #MLA13 #OMLA On http://t.co/lmUbABUE look at the Spreadsheet column for Health Insurance and scroll the endless "N"s for NO http://www.adjunctproject.comOccupyMLA 12/19/2012 18:35 #MLA13 #OMLA Proof? Yesterday a digiwonk made great points about adjuncts missing the networking and support from day 1 compared to tenuredOccupyMLA 12/19/2012 18:56 #MLA13 #OMLA So, yesterday?s question was a gimmee. But today we have a true challenge for you.OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 18:57 #MLA13 #OMLA Ahoy, tenured faculty! A Penny 4 Yr Thoughts! In what exact ways are adjuncts not equal to you? Be precise. Give examples.OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 18:57 #MLA13 #OMLA Tenured treated one way, adjuncts another. Worse. What was the reason again? What inequality between the two accounts for this?OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 18:58 #MLA13 #OMLA Why are tenured faculty and adjuncts treated so differently? Are #adjuncts less intelligent? Less hard working?

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OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 19:00 #MLA13 #OMLA Why are tenured faculty and adjuncts treated so differently? Are #adjuncts younger and healthier so they don?t need insurance?OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 19:00 #MLA13 #OMLA We?re as serious about this as my buddy the adjunct?s uninsured testicular cancer. Join us!Comphaze 12/19/2012 19:10 saw #profdarcy today in the parking lot. went right up to him & told him what I thought abt the bullshit of not getting an interviewOccupyMLA 12/19/2012 19:15 delivering papers at MLA on abusive systems, while the masses sweat outside suites, mustve made Foucault smile and then weep #mla13Comphaze 12/19/2012 19:20 he started to get all sheepish and apopolegetic and I just walked off. #screworbescrewedOccupyMLA 12/19/2012 19:22 @empathywarrior ... and since many adjuncts teach more than tenured, they're more tainted with the dreadful stain of . . . 'teaching.' Yes!Comphaze 12/19/2012 19:25 the measure of a man is the speed with which he begins to stammer & flail when confronted with his own bullshitOccupyMLA 12/19/2012 20:10 #MLA13 #OMLA Why are tenured faculty and adjuncts treated so differently? Institutional Darwinism? Tenured: better fighters? Cull the herd?OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 20:15 #MLA13 #OMLA Why are tenured faculty and adjuncts treated so differently? We dare you to actually articulate a reason.OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 21:15 #MLA13 #OMLA Why are tenured faculty and #adjuncts treated so differently? Can it be as simple as: ?it?s cheaper and they won?t complain??OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 21:20 #MLA13 #OMLA Not so simple! Some deep dream logic must underlie ?it?s cheaper and they won?t complain? or regents couldn?t sleep at night.OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 21:25 #MLA13 #OMLA Somewhere between Oxford and Hogwarts a kind of magic, metaphysical, class-based justification must still linger.OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 21:30 #MLA13 #OMLA Why are tenured faculty and adjuncts treated so differently? Dismiss us if you dare, but at least THINK of some justification!OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 22:03 @cobraforphd So sad. So true. 'Do you want honors with that?'OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 22:13 @s_insley_h @cobraforphd Yup. It's probly both clear and simple. Known by all. But how rarely anyone says it OUT LOUD. Truth screamin'OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 22:28 @s_insley_h @cobraforphd Our questions are truly open ended. It is certainly neoliberalism. But also some deep cap-&-gown mythology, right?OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 22:35 #MLA13 #OMLA Why are tenured faculty and adjuncts treated so differently? ?cause institutions should be run like businesses? Right to fire?OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 22:40 #MLA13 #OMLA But then, if institutions should be run like businesses how does tenure fit in again? Hmm. Is it part business, part medieval?OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 22:42 #MLA13 #OMLA It's the delicious, delirious double standard that fascinates. A 21stc neo-lib-cap employee sits next to a 15thc guild memberOccupyMLA 12/19/2012 22:50 @s_insley_h @cobraforphd We can see why 'tis thus, we guess. But our questions are about how (on earth) people rationalize it to themselves.OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 22:52 Gotta run and grade.OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 23:45 #MLA13 #OMLA Why are tenured faculty and adjuncts treated differently? Is anyone really going to make a ?better scholars? argument in 2012?OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 23:50 #MLA13 #OMLA Are tenured fac ?better scholars,? ?better qualified,? ?better researchers,? ?better instructors?? Srsly? Yr gonna say that?OccupyMLA 12/19/2012 23:55 #MLA13 #OMLA Experience? Important, yes. Seniority? An egalitarian principle. But this inequality has nothing necessarily to do with these.Comphaze 12/20/2012 4:04 @juanahang thanks, felt good to tell off #profdarcy today but not good good, bitter scorn good, tweetin from the account has been betterComphaze 12/20/2012 4:29 @bendprof weve got to let comfort seep in from wherever it comes sometime. tea bags. twitter. whereverOccupyMLA 12/20/2012 4:30 RT @jodiacampbell: Just got informed I'll only be teaching one class next semester. "Salary" cut by 75%. Merry Christmas to me. #adjunct ...ChangerCharles 12/20/2012 8:34 Awoke in clams of sweat realizing job would mean virtually NEVER seeing my children but that would require my wife answering 1 of my callsjuanahang 12/20/2012 8:38 @keethink It's as if they put tech in place as OBSTACLES to our work!OccupyMLA 12/20/2012 8:40 @academicdave Here in the hackademy, we teach Marx to distract us from listening to him! #mla13 #omlajuanahang 12/20/2012 8:43 @changercharles <hug> hang in there buddy!!!OccupyMLA 12/20/2012 14:30 do not let hiring committees tell you the value of your scholarship! Join us! #omla #mla13OccupyMLA 12/20/2012 14:45 Here's equality: Now they're expecting us NTT to publish in refereed journals! http://t.co/AzeK0zjZ (via @briancroxall) #mla13 #omla http://twitpic.com/b7ktohOccupyMLA 12/20/2012 15:00 Going to new lengths of humiliation & supporting the academic edsel: peer-review! FTW! #MLA13 #omla http://t.co/AzeK0zjZ http://twitpic.com/b7ktohChangerCharles 12/20/2012 18:20 I honestly do not mind the prospect of moving to the other side of the globe as long as I get the chance to lecture on & assign Great LitChangerCharles 12/20/2012 18:25 I long to say the words: Please turn to page 8673 of your Norton Anthology!ChangerCharles 12/20/2012 18:31 As each day approaches, I grow more eager for my interview, a chance to shuffle my saddle shoes & make merry in Middle English! #bringiton!OccupyMLA 12/20/2012 18:35 FT/TT job prospects are still at 1950s levels, tho they do require willingness to relocate to another hemisphere #mla13juanahang 12/20/2012 18:43 @ChangerCharles @CompHaze Seems like we have our own stalker, or what? WTF, indeed!juanahang 12/20/2012 18:55 I'm at the point where I'm grading everything I look at. My mind is inserting correct punctuation, in red, into NPRadio news stories! Yikesjuanahang 12/20/2012 18:58 But at least I get to eat great left-overs while I grade. My own version of the Chicken Marsala a la Mumbai from the restau last nightOccupyMLA 12/20/2012 21:46 @readywriting all the more time to make some noise. <hug>ChangerCharles 12/21/2012 3:35 RT @Medievalists: Article: The Significance of the Coronation of Charlemagne http://t.co/d3Xiksuz - it happened on Christmas Day... http://www.medievalists.net/2010/12/22/the-significance-of-the-coronation-of-charlemagne/Comphaze 12/21/2012 3:38 RT @JustMeloo21: Eating Skittles and grading papers. #perfecttogetherComphaze 12/21/2012 3:42 RT @JanetSymmons: So You Don?t Know What You Want To Do Next? http://t.co/wRTRQTyh #PhD #gradgrind #uni #university #HE http://ow.ly/gfeL6Comphaze 12/21/2012 3:47 @juanahang who? Ive been off all dayComphaze 12/21/2012 3:48 RT @alondra: The politics and practices of live tweeting at academic conferences http://t.co/RUXhEuAP @wewatchwatchers http://bit.ly/VcNYgwComphaze 12/21/2012 3:49 RT @jillianbakes: Having faith is believing in something when common sense tells you not to.ChangerCharles 12/21/2012 4:36 Reading thru some old post in CHE, found this piece from @briancroxall, & started to sob uncontrollably... http://t.co/CufNldMr http://ow.ly/ghdBuChangerCharles 12/21/2012 4:38 Considering family while making career choices, I suppose I have been in a bit of denial about what this job could mean for my family exceptChangerCharles 12/21/2012 4:39 except she refuses to take my calls, refuses to let them see me. It is not a matter of my looking after my own needs, this is the situation.juanahang 12/21/2012 4:40 @ChangerCharles what are you doing, dude? Why did you just @ him?ChangerCharles 12/21/2012 4:41 @juanahang What is the problem? I can't tweet @ someone? It is only Twitter.juanahang 12/21/2012 4:42 @changercharles You KNOW what the PROBLEM is? Why are you calling attention to yourself? To us?ChangerCharles 12/21/2012 4:43 @juanahang You are being ridiculous. We have nothing to hide. Besides, no one can connect us to the account. I made sure of that.juanahang 12/21/2012 4:44 @changercharles You keep doing it. @comphaze, tell Charles to knock it off!OccupyMLA 12/21/2012 4:45 No one will ever know the identity of @omla and that will be the secret of its success!juanahang 12/21/2012 4:46 @CompHaze Hey, I need your help. @ChangerCharles is out of control!ChangerCharles 12/21/2012 4:46 Mom! Mom! @juanahangComphaze 12/21/2012 4:48 @ChangerCharles @juanahang What is going on? Dont you two sleep? #whydidiagreetocomebackjuanahang 12/21/2012 4:49 @CompHaze Have you been watching his tweets? Did you see who he just @-ed?Comphaze 12/21/2012 4:50 @juanahang Relax, relax. give me a second to catch up.ChangerCharles 12/21/2012 4:51 @CompHaze There is NOTHING to check. @juanahang is overreacting. I merely tweeted a message with someone's handle. Nothing unusual.juanahang 12/21/2012 4:52 @changercharles @CompHaze He doth protesteth too much, Hazel. Just look. He knows exactly what he is doing. Read the feed!Comphaze 12/21/2012 4:54 @juanahang @ChangerCharles i was worried abt this. i saw the tweet. lets drop it. probbly wont make any difference. hes right, not unusaljuanahang 12/21/2012 4:54 @comphaze you know what hes doing. You remember last year!ChangerCharles 12/21/2012 4:55 Oh, look @CompHaze apparently your apostrophic aversion is catching. Now @juanahang is dropping them.Comphaze 12/21/2012 4:56 @changercharles dont bait me. lets just talk about this offline, okay, @juanahang?ChangerCharles 12/21/2012 4:57 @CompHaze @juanahang There is NO reason not to tweet openly. We are just 3 twitterers doing what tweeter do.juanahang 12/21/2012 4:58 @changercharles I agree with @CompHaze! Let's take it offline. Come on, dude!Comphaze 12/21/2012 4:59 @ChangerCharles does this have something to do with your interview?ChangerCharles 12/21/2012 4:59 @comphaze What could that possibly mean? Is this jealousy I sense?Comphaze 12/21/2012 5:00 @changercharles dontChangerCharles 12/21/2012 5:01 @comphaze Last year, it did not work out for you, and now you begrudge me my opportunity. Is that it?Comphaze 12/21/2012 5:02 @changercharles i said dontjuanahang 12/21/2012 5:03 @ChangerCharles Shuthtefuckup!ChangerCharles 12/21/2012 5:03 @CompHaze @juanahang I thought this might come up, might be the source of some friction between us.juanahang 12/21/2012 5:04 @changercharles You really are an asshoelChangerCharles 12/21/2012 5:05 @juanahang now, now... Let's keep this party polite.juanahang 12/21/2012 5:06 @changercharles Oh, I give up. You are an insufferable, pompous, prick& I can't take this right now.ChangerCharles 12/21/2012 5:07 @juanahang I am merely honest. It tedns to make quite a few enemies. A personality trait that in ME days would be tallied as high virtue.juanahang 12/21/2012 5:07 @changercharles IN.Suf.Fer.ABLE!ChangerCharles 12/21/2012 5:08 @juanahang I believe it is that insufferability that has made me a leader in our movement.juanahang 12/21/2012 5:09 Oh, right. RT @changercharles: @juanahang I believe it is that insufferability that has made me a leader in our movement.juanahang 12/21/2012 5:10 @changercharles you are such a leader. Look at how everyone just falls in lockstep behind you, you made the account a laughing stock lastyrChangerCharles 12/21/2012 5:11 @juanahang Yes, did I not? By -- what was it -- selling t-shirts? Giving <hugs> -- yes, that was my idea, was it not?Comphaze 12/21/2012 5:11 @juanahang @ChangerCharles stopChangerCharles 12/21/2012 5:13 @juanahang Or am I forgetting the irresistible force of your "Hey, Dude" rhetoric, which just elates our highly educated followers?juanahang 12/21/2012 5:13 @changercharles I brougth the account back from the dead! It wouldn't exist if I hadn't taken over. Ungrateful arse.Comphaze 12/21/2012 5:14 @ChangerCharles @juanahang stopChangerCharles 12/21/2012 5:16 @juanahang That is true. You did begin tweeting again, and look at the response we've gotten. Are we not the center of the conversation?ChangerCharles 12/21/2012 5:17 @juanahang Oh, my, one moment -- No, we are not. We are not central. We are the definition of the periphery, the outsiders, the trivial!Comphaze 12/21/2012 5:18 @juanahang @ChangerCharles i said stopjuanahang 12/21/2012 5:19 @changercharles Have you looked recently? 509 followers. 509!! 200 more since we stopped. & growing by the day!OccupyMLA 12/21/2012 5:20 stop it stop it stop it stopitstopit stpot stopit stopit!!!!!!!!juanahang 12/21/2012 5:21 Was that you @CompHaze?ChangerCharles 12/21/2012 5:22 Was that necessary @juanahang?Comphaze 12/21/2012 5:22 of course it was me, you assholes @juanahang @ChangerCharlesjuanahang 12/21/2012 5:23 @comphaze But what did I do? I'm on your sideChangerCharles 12/21/2012 5:23 @comphaze Classy.Comphaze 12/21/2012 5:25 @juanahang @ChangerCharles That is all I can take. I cant take the bickering. You are such whiny little boys. Just stop it. Listen to me.ChangerCharles 12/21/2012 5:26 @comphaze My attention is bifurcated not once.juanahang 12/21/2012 5:26 @comphaze what?Comphaze 12/21/2012 5:27 @juanahang @ChangerCharles do you know why i agreed to come back? to join up with you two again this year?juanahang 12/21/2012 5:28 @comphaze You were pissed off about the job, rt? #profdarcy the whole deal. I know. It sucked.Comphaze 12/21/2012 5:29 @juanahang no, that wasnt itComphaze 12/21/2012 5:30 i mean, that was it, but it was only part of itjuanahang 12/21/2012 5:31 I'm sorry. It was all we talked about. RT @CompHaze: @juanahang no, that wasnt itComphaze 12/21/2012 5:32 @juanahang no, no, that was part of it but the bigger part of the reason was that even tho yo uhad done the worst thing ever to me...ChangerCharles 12/21/2012 5:33 @comphaze I apologized for that quite a while back and would apologize again now.

juanahang 12/21/2012 5:34 @ChangerCharles Let her finish!Comphaze 12/21/2012 5:35 @ChangerCharles @juanahang even tho that basically robbed me of my ONE chance at a TT job -- doomed me to the bullshit of the wC --Comphaze 12/21/2012 5:36 deep down i think you did me a favor, savd me from something i didnt want badly enuff and didnt want me at all as it turns outjuanahang 12/21/2012 5:36 @comphaze That's no ttrue! Nne of that is true!!Comphaze 12/21/2012 5:37 @juanahang yes it is. yes, it actaully is. & i think it took till tonight for me to admit it.ChangerCharles 12/21/2012 5:38 @comphaze Admit what?OccupyMLA 12/21/2012 5:40 This moment in the academic travesty of #highered may just be the push we need to help us admit we can live wo the BS of PhDs! #mla13ChangerCharles 12/21/2012 5:41 @comphaze I see once again that my esteem of the blazon of your character was malformed.juanahang 12/21/2012 5:42 @CompHaze Oh...really?Comphaze 12/21/2012 5:44 it just took this @ChangerCharles being a supreme asshole (no offense) to see it. And why not tonite? it is afterall the end of the worldjuanahang 12/21/2012 5:45 @comphaze So dos that mean you want out?Comphaze 12/21/2012 5:47 @juanahang i dont know. i think it means I want to doubledownjuanahang 12/21/2012 5:48 @comphaze they really are listening to us. You saw yesterday? The conversations we're starting? And they're listening too us higher up, too.Comphaze 12/21/2012 5:49 @juanahang i know. i know. were going to do this. 2 more weeks!Comphaze 12/21/2012 5:50 @justmeloo21 omg, thnx. i dindt mean to have it out on twitterChangerCharles 12/21/2012 5:51 I am anything but a douche.OccupyMLA 12/21/2012 5:52 Assuming the world does not end, in 2 weeks #OMLA will realize a dream 2 years in the making! #mla13 JOIN US!Comphaze 12/21/2012 5:53 @justmeloo21 well, we have a history. its complicated. like everything, rt?ChangerCharles 12/21/2012 5:55 All right. Maybe I posses of modicum of douchieness. The key women in my life seem to agree on this.Comphaze 12/21/2012 5:56 @justmeloo21 the support is more than welcomed. i just get caught up in it sometimes -- tweet against my better judgmentOccupyMLA 12/21/2012 5:58 The road to real reform is not always smooth or straight or simple. But it is worth the fight, every inch, every blow leaves a mark! #mla13Comphaze 12/21/2012 5:59 @justmeloo21 your anger comes out in acerbic tweets i enjoy so much. glad to have some backup out there!Comphaze 12/21/2012 6:00 Need to frame this! RT @ChangerCharles: All right. Maybe I posses of modicum of douchieness. The key women in my life seem to agree on this.ChangerCharles 12/21/2012 6:06 RT @pannapacker: Losing your family: another reason why going to grad school (and not finding a position) is not a minor issue: http://t ...OccupyMLA 12/21/2012 6:06 RT @pannapacker: Losing your family: another reason why going to grad school (and not finding a position) is not a minor issue: http://t ...juanahang 12/21/2012 6:38 @CompHaze hey, did you see the CHE article he shared?Comphaze 12/21/2012 6:38 @juanahang no, which?juanahang 12/21/2012 6:39 @comphaze http://t.co/Mj7byMbf http://chronicle.com/article/You-Can-Go-Home-for-the/136355/Comphaze 12/21/2012 6:40 @juanahang ???juanahang 12/21/2012 6:41 @comphaze It's about losing your family...Comphaze 12/21/2012 6:41 @juanahang oh. right.juanahang 12/21/2012 6:42 @comphaze just sayin. I think hes still working it out.Comphaze 12/21/2012 6:43 @juanahang i hear you. ok.juanahang 12/21/2012 6:43 @comphaze just sayin, might explain some of the douchieness :)Comphaze 12/21/2012 6:44 @juanahang yeah, right, now, theres no excuse for it.juanahang 12/21/2012 6:45 @comphaze Ok maybe not. <shrug>Comphaze 12/21/2012 6:51 RT @TheSingleWoman: Don't let New Years be the only time u resolve to do better. Strive to be the best version of u every single day. #TheSWOccupyMLA 12/21/2012 7:03 @justmeloo21 humbled by what?OccupyMLA 12/21/2012 7:07 @justmeloo21 :) we like to follow interesting & witty accounts -- people who tell it like it is!OccupyMLA 12/21/2012 7:10 @justmeloo21 we appreciate the support! We can use all we can get. Not everyones a fan!ChangerCharles 12/21/2012 7:12 Speaking of douches. WTF is at it again. @juanahang @CompHazeOccupyMLA 12/21/2012 7:14 @justmeloo21 its needed! its needed! the time has come to call out some bs!OccupyMLA 12/21/2012 7:20 @justmeloo21 absolutely! Thanks for being there for those who are in need of support!OccupyMLA 12/21/2012 7:24 @justmeloo21 just knowing youre out there helps so much! Of course, Retweets and hashtags are other ways to join the movement for reform!ChangerCharles 12/21/2012 7:26 @juanahang @CompHaze What exactly did we do to put nettles under this fellows bonnet? Seems to be a bit... obsessed.OccupyMLA 12/21/2012 7:27 @justmeloo21 the hashtags for our movement are #mla13 (the conference tag) & #omla -- these are ways to communicate support.OccupyMLA 12/21/2012 7:31 @justmeloo21 thank you! you seem like the kind of person who wouldnt sit back while an injustice was underway!juanahang 12/21/2012 7:33 @changercharles @CompHaze Just the usual. Remember the "shadow" last year? Never amounted to anything.juanahang 12/21/2012 7:34 @changercharles @CompHaze Hey, we tend to inspire passionate responses! No worries.OccupyMLA 12/21/2012 7:35 @justmeloo21 lets just say your efforts have not gone unnoticed. & true to the #omla way, here's a <hug>!Comphaze 12/21/2012 7:44 sometimes it only takes one person to show us that we dont deserve what people are dishing on us. feeling a sense of appreciation tonight.OccupyMLA 12/21/2012 8:40 @savasavasava Ok, but I'm going to sleep! Nice seeing you online. <hug>OccupyMLA 12/21/2012 14:10 after a lot of consideration & reflection, one of us has decidd to leave academia tho not the cause of #omla! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/21/2012 14:20 it is not that their arent enough jobs (which there arent) or the humiliation of the job search but personal reasons & an awakening #mla13OccupyMLA 12/21/2012 14:35 climb out of the illusion of the Pile (Higher & Deeper) & youll see how the odds were stacked against you #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/21/2012 14:45 sometimes it just takes 1 person to push us out of that pile to see the trap we fell into by submitting our CVs for approval #mla13OccupyMLA 12/21/2012 15:00 You dont need anyones approval of the work you did, the time you put in, the theses you argued, the lit you love! #mla13 Join us!Comphaze 12/21/2012 15:06 there. that about sums it up. & i think a few more weeks of kickingass will be just what i need!OccupyMLA 12/21/2012 15:30 And stop feeling like a fool because you thought your adjuncting gig was a sign that the dept wanted to hire you for real #mla13ChangerCharles 12/21/2012 15:31 If you knew who I really was, would you still stand behind me? Or is the obscuring beaver of my helm what gives my words force?OccupyMLA 12/21/2012 15:45 those who made you feel less than a professor only reveal that they are unworthy of the name #MLA13 #OMLAComphaze 12/21/2012 15:50 and there are members of the profession who treat us like were part of a much older one (sorry i mean one person in particular)ChangerCharles 12/21/2012 16:55 Amazing how three little words can change your outlook on life & bring you an opportunity like you never dreamed: schedule your interview!OccupyMLA 12/21/2012 17:00 It is worth holding out for that academic dream job bc the dream itself is a sign of your destiny! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/21/2012 17:10 Answering the doubters: "This is my calling in life, & I would be unhappy if I didn't follow it." #mla13 http://t.co/8ITPOLrU http://ow.ly/ghh3COccupyMLA 12/21/2012 17:15 & if that job be in a diff country or corn' of the globe, what matters? What the WORLD needs now is lit, sweet lit! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/21/2012 19:51 RT @cobraforphd: Finally renewed my #MLA membership but can't afford the $60 @MLAConvention entry fee. Ah, well. It's in my city this ye ...juanahang 12/21/2012 20:37 Strange even to me, and no offense to my buds and yr pains/ecstasies right now, but I am diggin bein a lit prof right now.juanahang 12/21/2012 20:40 My lit delight is undoubtedly bcs my current post was unsought (sudden demise of predecessor) as was the sudden respect I enjoy.juanahang 12/21/2012 20:41 But I'll TAKE that unsought (and probly undeserved *laughs*) respect, thank you!juanahang 12/21/2012 20:43 And I'm rully rully eager to get back to good ol' Issac Bickerstaff and Sir Roger de Coverly and my noodly notions on Addison and SteeleOccupyMLA 12/21/2012 20:48 we don't demonize folks in hackademe whose decisions hurt us; we paint them like Addisons good foe Sir Roger de Coverly, an affable bumblerOccupyMLA 12/21/2012 20:50 But we continue to ask: How do you justify to yourself the unequal treatment of #adjuncts and tenured? #MLA13 #OMLA How can it be?OccupyMLA 12/21/2012 20:51 behold my official grading-is-done dance. Join us!ChangerCharles 12/21/2012 21:05 Just recevied an email missive frommy wife. The first I have received in ne arly 4 months. SHe wants to talk! #miracleChangerCharles 12/21/2012 21:10 That is what the email siad. That she wanted to talk. She is invoking the right of parlay. #miracleChangerCharles 12/21/2012 21:21 I do not want to raise my hopes, for too long have I borne them on my mizzenmast like a white flag #miracleChangerCharles 12/21/2012 21:25 But the posibility fills me w an excitement the likes of which I have only experienced when my children were born & when I won the interviewOccupyMLA 12/21/2012 21:30 Sometimes the missive you were waiting for, missiles through your door. Fills your sails with hope undreamt! #omla #mla13ChangerCharles 12/21/2012 22:15 Further exchanges & my wife & I will be talking in person in 2 days! #miracleOccupyMLA 12/21/2012 22:53 RT @gerrycanavan: Academic jobs in English have stabilized at the post-crisis rate rather than returning to their pre-crisis numbers. ht ...OccupyMLA 12/21/2012 23:11 RT @trentmkays: What funds? RT @MLAconvention: Have you asked your department for funds?OccupyMLA 12/22/2012 2:30 academia is designd to sustain itself *as is* not to be transformd from within -- everything from quals to diss prove this #mla13Comphaze 12/22/2012 3:10 yes, the time has come to leave academia. at least from the position of the bottom of the crab cage. time to attack the top!OccupyMLA 12/22/2012 3:50 RT @noeljackson: Well, that bullshit Penn State Dubois job ad is still up in the JIL I see: https://t.co/Z107bEyy https://secure.interfolio.com/apply/17591Comphaze 12/22/2012 3:58 RT @TheOnion: Shadows Meet The Clouds, Gray On Gray, Like Dusty Charcoal On An Ashen Brow, Nation's Poets Report http://t.co/7w3RFn6j #O ... http://onion.com/T777GGComphaze 12/22/2012 4:00 RT @anneperez: I love my mom, but no one can stress me as fast as she can.Comphaze 12/22/2012 4:12 RT @JanetSymmons: For Whom Is College Being Reinvented? http://t.co/kLhw5084 #highered #college #education http://ow.ly/ghb9WComphaze 12/22/2012 4:15 definitely doesnt apply to phds in English! RT @janetsymmons: Economic benefit of higher-ed. degrees released: http://t.co/jMaDUn29 http://ow.ly/ghb7LChangerCharles 12/22/2012 5:31 RT @HopeSteffen: #Medievaltrivia: Queen Philippa of Hainault was very fond of squirrels, kept them as pets and had squirrel embroideries ...OccupyMLA 12/22/2012 5:57 RT @MLAconvention: Some depts step up and give travel $$ to ALL faculty, as #MLA recommends. It should be norm. Let's work for it. @ncec ...ChangerCharles 12/22/2012 6:03 RT @HopeSteffen: #Medieval trivia: In 1309 the under-aged Elizabeth Luttrell was abducted by the young Thomas of Ellerker. He was later ...ChangerCharles 12/22/2012 6:04 RT @HopeSteffen: and Elizabeth was restored to her betrothed, the son of Sir Walter of Gloucester (World of the Luttrell Psalter 2006: 4 ...ChangerCharles 12/22/2012 13:15 Unbelievable. Tomorrow my wife & I shall meet to talk of my seeing the children again. Hope burns me so I drop it clattering to the floor.OccupyMLA 12/22/2012 13:16 RT @pannapacker: For some reason, Christmas and the MLA Convention feel like one big holiday event. What presents will there be at #MLA13?Comphaze 12/22/2012 13:20 RT @TheSingleWoman: Remember, silence cannot be quoted! Every comment doesn't warrant a response. ~@BishopJakes #TheSWComphaze 12/22/2012 13:21 RT @teachingwthsoul: Privacy Is Dead?Deal With It?. http://t.co/r3vV3DyY via @gingerconsult http://goo.gl/2aB3MComphaze 12/22/2012 13:21 RT @NSRiazat: "Please RT - the next live UK #phdchat will be first Wednesday in January 2013. Wishing everyone a lovely xmas break. :)"ChangerCharles 12/22/2012 13:26 RT @halbion: EMH Blog: Richard Cust in History Today on Charles I's decision to fight at Naseby in 1645: Richard Cust (Univer... http:// ...ChangerCharles 12/22/2012 13:26 RT @CathHanley: The lord's retainers might eat pies made from the bits of deer the nobles didn't want - the offal or 'humbles'. Hence th ...ChangerCharles 12/22/2012 13:27 RT @CathHanley: Time for a few more #C13Christmas tweets I reckon. Obviously your Christmas experience would vary widely according to yo ...ChangerCharles 12/22/2012 13:29 RT @Sarah_Peverley: Nativity from Tr?s belles Heures de Notre-Dame, Biblioth?que nationale de France, MS NAL 3093. #MedievalAdventCalend ...Comphaze 12/22/2012 13:30 lying in bed, dreaming my life as Les Miz: fantine or eponine? the jiltd single mom turnd prostitute or unrequitd lover with the whiny solo?ChangerCharles 12/22/2012 13:34 @HopeSteffen my pleasure!Comphaze 12/22/2012 13:35 There was a time when men were kind/When their voices were soft/And their words inviting/There was a time when love was blind #profdarcyComphaze 12/22/2012 13:35 @JanetSymmons yes!Comphaze 12/22/2012 13:40 And the world was a song/And the song was exciting/There was a time/Then it ALL WENT WRONG ... [cue intro]Comphaze 12/22/2012 13:45 I dreamed a dream in time gone by/When hope was high/And life WORTH living/I dreamed that love would never die...Comphaze 12/22/2012 13:50 I dreamd that God would be forgiving/Then I was young and unafraid/And dreams were made and used and wasted!/There was no ransom to be paidComphaze 12/22/2012 13:55 No song unsung, no wine untasted....

Comphaze 12/22/2012 13:57 Feeling a little les miserable this mornin RT @JustMeloo21: Poetry in the morning soothes the night owl's savage beast. Thank you, @CompHazeOccupyMLA 12/22/2012 14:00 prostitution<-->adjuncting, same dif, except prostitutes get screwd for their jobs, adjuncts get screwd out of them! #mla13 #omlajuanahang 12/22/2012 14:00 ? But the TIGERS come at NIGHT! With their voices soft as thunder! ? :)Comphaze 12/22/2012 14:01 ok, fantine it is.Comphaze 12/22/2012 14:05 @juanahang as they tear your hope a part! As they turn your dream to SHAME!!ChangerCharles 12/22/2012 14:05 RT @irarchaeology: A reconstruction drawing of an early medieval ringfort (?Northern Ireland Environment Agency) http://t.co/56g4GZ7d http://twitter.com/irarchaeology/status/282436162214301696/photo/1juanahang 12/22/2012 14:10 My, you have a LOVELY voice, @CompHaze! You should really sing more often.Comphaze 12/22/2012 14:10 Thanks @juanahang I needed thatComphaze 12/22/2012 14:13 :-)RT @JustMeloo21: @CompHaze: What's life, if we can't find meaning in it? We're symbolically wired. xjuanahang 12/22/2012 14:15 @CompHaze No prob. I think a <hug> would be in order!ChangerCharles 12/22/2012 14:17 RT @kiplet: @studentactivism @OccupyWallStNYC First, they win. Then you fight them. Then you laugh at them. Then you ignore them...Comphaze 12/22/2012 14:20 a little rough patch right now but Im bound to pull out of it. first day its really settling in, no Writing Center/teaching to distractOccupyMLA 12/22/2012 14:21 RT @rgfeal: @pannapacker Well, there will be some #mlacommons swag, a free party after Pres Address....juanahang 12/22/2012 14:25 @CompHaze take the day off, relax, or go out for a little holiday retail therapy! :)ChangerCharles 12/22/2012 14:25 He slept a summer by my side! He filled my days with endless WON-DER!Comphaze 12/22/2012 14:30 ok @ChangerCharles that was a little weird.juanahang 12/22/2012 14:35 @ChangerCharles yeah, you're doing it wrong. But that's okay.Comphaze 12/22/2012 14:35 ive got to sign off. bye. probably be off all day. sorry.ChangerCharles 12/22/2012 14:35 @CompHaze @juanahang I was just trying to join in. I know I am persona non grata these days. Mea culpa.OccupyMLA 12/22/2012 14:39 RT @pannapacker: @rgfeal Can I have a special badge that entitles me to free drinks at all cash bars? #MLA13juanahang 12/22/2012 14:40 @changercharles Yeah, me, too. Got to run to the restaurant. Big holiday party for the staff this a.m. Later, gater.ChangerCharles 12/22/2012 14:45 I seem to have developed a knack for chasing those I love away; Good thing I have my endless pile of grading to keep me warm! sighChangerCharles 12/22/2012 14:50 Everyone is so easily offended! We quake in our botes, hiding, tremulous. I see no reason to hide, blameless as we are, a voice of Trewth!ChangerCharles 12/22/2012 14:55 Trewth ?at trespassed neuere ne transuersed a?eines his lawe, But lyueth as his lawe techethOccupyMLA 12/22/2012 15:00 Demoralized that your life's Lit. research earned you a life sentence correcting commasplices in an online course? Join us! #mla13 #omlaChangerCharles 12/22/2012 15:01 Demoralized that your life's Lit. research earned you a life sentence correcting commasplices in an online course? Join us! #mla13 #omlaChangerCharles 12/22/2012 15:05 Oh, dear, what have I gone & done now? That can hardly be a good thing. I guess I can't be trusted! Oh, well...ChangerCharles 12/22/2012 17:42 Cat & mouse as it as always been, eh? Perhaps now we can dance in the open by the light of that cashbar. :)ChangerCharles 12/22/2012 17:54 RT @LeVostreGC: Grumpy Catte Knighte hath a seate at the round table. On yt are lettres yn golde that spelle out the worde 'NO.'OccupyMLA 12/22/2012 19:01 RT @StrikeDebt: Help us build the #StrikeDebt People's Mic! Pledge one tweet or FB post per day here: http://t.co/ep0jMXmZ http://donateyouraccount.com/StrikeDebtOccupyMLA 12/22/2012 19:33 RT @rcoddington: Part 2 of our video documentary, Adjunct Voices, is the story of an optimistic adjunct on the economic edge: http://t.c ...OccupyMLA 12/22/2012 19:36 Bizzare! Further odd moment in an autumn of odd moments. One of our merry band may actually get a all-expns-paid trip to #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/22/2012 19:39 Phone rings this (Saturday!) morning. "Someone" says panicky dept head "needs to go to #mla13 to make a hire" He can't go.OccupyMLA 12/22/2012 19:42 Who better to go a-hirin' in Boston than lil ol mwah? Professional chef emergency substitute adjunct couldn't-be-more-contingent me! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/22/2012 19:45 A penny for your thoughts: chime in on the irony of an #adjunct on a search committee judging/hiring his/her elders/betters? #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/22/2012 19:47 And (we suddenly realize) it means one of us will be there to organize some kind of physical gesture in Boston. Join us fer sure! #omlaOccupyMLA 12/22/2012 19:50 Or *could* be there in Boston . . . it's not 100% sure I'll get to go. I told dept head I'm up 4 it. They treat ya sweet when they need yaOccupyMLA 12/22/2012 19:51 Maybe I'll just stand in conference hallway: "Hi! Penny for your thoughts! Why do tenures and adjuncts get treated so differently?" #mla13juanahang 12/22/2012 19:55 So my academic boss calls while I'm up to my elbows in Xmas pasta a the restaurant and yes actually asks if I would go to MLA to make a hirejuanahang 12/22/2012 19:56 @ChangerCharles @CompHaze I hope this doesn't make more waves for our rocky lil' boat. Especially since I don't give a fig for the hackademyjuanahang 12/22/2012 19:57 @ChangerCharles @CompHaze Think of me as your emissary your missionary, our man in Boston. At your service.juanahang 12/22/2012 19:59 @ChangerCharles @CompHaze It's not 100% for sure yet. I'll let you know when I know. Sorry if it upsets u or hurts your feelings Luv u guiseOccupyMLA 12/22/2012 20:07 And (irony upon irony) I actually have a bunch of questions I want to ask #mla13 scholars about Scriblerus Club & Addison+Steelejuanahang 12/22/2012 20:13 But kinda is like the universe WANTS me to finish my book on Addison and Steele and their character/avatars deCoverly, Will Honeycomb et aljuanahang 12/22/2012 20:16 Who in early 18th Brit will be at MLA? Imagine going there for the ideas, not the palm-sweat and resentment of the job search!OccupyMLA 12/22/2012 20:42 RT @noeljackson: .@occupyMLA Happy holidays, buddies :) http://t.co/dkCr8g5g http://twitter.com/noeljackson/status/282586103800819712/photo/1OccupyMLA 12/22/2012 20:55 Here's to you @noelJackson!! You are the man (the good one, standing up against the other sylmbolic man) #mla13ChangerCharles 12/22/2012 20:59 @juanahang @CompHaze It is only right that the one who brought back the account shall stand for the account!OccupyMLA 12/22/2012 21:02 RT @VCVaileNFM: History lesson anyone? The Status of Part-Time Faculty is an #AAUP report prepar...: History lesson anyone? The ... http ...OccupyMLA 12/22/2012 21:03 RT @VCVaileNFM: What's your take on the #Chronicle's new series #AdjunctVoices? http://chronicle...: What's your take on the #Ch... http ...OccupyMLA 12/22/2012 21:52 Looking for an end of the year donation? Consider strikedebt! Join us! #mla13 http://t.co/5bs7rkds (follow @noeljackson) http://strikedebt.org/OccupyMLA 12/22/2012 22:08 @noeljackson Have good ones your own self!OccupyMLA 12/22/2012 22:11 I'm liking this notion of standing in conference hallways at #mla13 opening sport coat to reveal #omla "penny for your thoughts" t shirtOccupyMLA 12/22/2012 22:13 and cheerily asking the tough asks. E.g. "Hands up those with healthcare! Now those without! See? Is that OK with everybody?" #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/22/2012 22:19 grading done. Now over river & thru woods to gf's grandmother's house. Hugs peace and healthcare to all #omla friendz! I'll twit when I canOccupyMLA 12/23/2012 5:02 RT @TrishP74: @StrikeDebt Karma is real. Donated to rolling jubilee and 1 month later received a letter that 2k of debt was no longer be ...ChangerCharles 12/23/2012 5:33 On the verge of getting everything that mattered in my life restored and achieved.ChangerCharles 12/23/2012 5:33 I am so emboldened. Yes.ChangerCharles 12/23/2012 5:39 And what would I do if I won it all?ChangerCharles 12/23/2012 5:40 And what will I do if I do not?OccupyMLA 12/23/2012 5:51 Your family will forgive you for following your literary dream! Join us. #mla13OccupyMLA 12/23/2012 14:09 RT @occupytheory: For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall http://t.co/bw5rD9PX @strikedebt @occupytheory #freeeducation http://nyti.ms/WFAYXIChangerCharles 12/23/2012 14:12 RT @qui_oui: The year in Canadian #HigherEd: #GGI, branding Canada internationally, student mental health & more! http://t.co/8laWCn ...ChangerCharles 12/23/2012 14:15 RT @SarahEBond: I suppose the upside of Americans naming winter storms is that now I have had no less than 5 people ask who Draco was. # ...ChangerCharles 12/23/2012 14:15 RT @erik_kwakkel: Excellent read for a lazy Sunday. ?@Sarah_Peverley: My final blog of the year: Christmas at the Medieval Court http:// ...ChangerCharles 12/23/2012 14:16 RT @HopeSteffen: #Medievaltrivia: In the first half of the 14thC Lambert of Thrikingham (of Holy Trinity Priory, York) served as rector ...ChangerCharles 12/23/2012 14:16 RT @Sarah_Peverley: Nativity from @blmedieval Sloane 2418 #MedievalAdventCalendar http://t.co/EHfuBfaF http://twitter.com/Sarah_Peverley/status/282772664622399489/photo/1ChangerCharles 12/23/2012 14:20 This is the day when months of silence will end, when I will finally have the chance to negotiate to see my beloved children once more.ChangerCharles 12/23/2012 14:22 We have agreed upon a place & time for the meeting, the emails civil, & I will face the one who left me because she lost hope in me.ChangerCharles 12/23/2012 14:23 Because ultimately my job propects, my chronic underemployment, had cost our family too much, had turned me into an unbearable spouse.ChangerCharles 12/23/2012 14:24 Now, with proof that I am employable, with a sense that I am worthy of my dreams, I dare let slip the word I once saw as a curse: hope.ChangerCharles 12/23/2012 14:25 So begins the day I know as #miracleOccupyMLA 12/23/2012 14:28 At this yuletide, after years of demeaning adjunct work, it is worthy of your high degree tho low esteem to wish for a #miracleOccupyMLA 12/23/2012 14:29 But perhaps we should leave the dreams to the children & resume discussions (in the gdoc) of an adjunct mutualaid @StrikeDebtChangerCharles 12/23/2012 14:32 Yet still the plague of doubts return like dogs as I recall failure on all fronts: wife, children, job apps, adjunct work #nomiraclesChangerCharles 12/23/2012 14:33 1 job intrvw/=a bankable future. She lost the ability to put stock or store in my prospects, became exhausted w the man labors loss made meChangerCharles 12/23/2012 14:36 And I am reminded how piles of letters of rejection, watching others tweet abt their opportunities (sorry), robbd naive belief #nomiraclesOccupyMLA 12/23/2012 14:39 For the majority of @newfacmajority, for the citizenry of @AdjunctNation, the tweets about a few job #miracles is an insult #mla13OccupyMLA 12/23/2012 14:44 @roopikarisam I believe yours is the type of tweet for which my colleague in #omla would find it appropriate to tweet <hug>ChangerCharles 12/23/2012 14:47 Tomorrow (actually in just a few hours) we'll discover what God in heaven has in store. #miracle #nomiracles [A few hours] more!OccupyMLA 12/23/2012 14:48 RT @wynkenhimself: Both were first generation to go to college; both went on to grad school. They could afford it without devastating loans.OccupyMLA 12/23/2012 14:51 @roopikarisam I only wish we had more to offer, something more tangible, @StrikeDebt, or a miracle!OccupyMLA 12/23/2012 14:52 @roopikarisam but perhaps there is a strength, a solidarity in these <hugs> that tho twitterweak are twitterstrong!OccupyMLA 12/23/2012 14:54 @roopikarisam Though I suspect the #miracle of the hug is the instant recognition of the existance of sympathy from those who follow you.OccupyMLA 12/23/2012 14:55 @roopikarisam and for that reason, in the so-called spirit of the season, we offer a <hug> that will always signify: do not give up!OccupyMLA 12/23/2012 14:57 & Thus, #omla, can reach out arms stretched to exploited #adjuncts, lectureres, phd dreamers, & acknowledve the power of <hug> #mla13OccupyMLA 12/23/2012 14:58 @roopikarisam a sign of your wisdom, the crisis, & the crux -- our sense of self cannot rest in hiring committee handsOccupyMLA 12/23/2012 15:00 @roopikarisam Yes, though sometimes, those we love, who rely on our gainful employment, can make us feel that both are the same.ChangerCharles 12/23/2012 15:01 In the event you are out there, reading these tweets, & recognize my hand in that last one: I meant NO illwill toward you!ChangerCharles 12/23/2012 15:02 & mylove, in the event you are reading this, I have, at last, news #miracleChangerCharles 12/23/2012 15:03 News! News! of the kind for which you forgive a husband you supported in so many years of adjunct work & shattered banishd dreams!Comphaze 12/23/2012 16:33 I need more of this! RT @literarychica: Hot Off the Presses: my latest at Words Are My Game: "Do Not Be Afraid" http://t.co/Jt8oDtuZ http://wp.me/p1tNUD-c7OccupyMLA 12/23/2012 16:34 RT @valdes23: @literarychica generalization ahead) - all of us, as Ph.Ds, we're all a bunch of nerds who read a lot and cont'd doing wha ...OccupyMLA 12/23/2012 16:34 RT @valdes23: @literarychica good at doing... that doesn't necessarily encourage risk, in and off itself. Discomfort = risk, growth, evo ...OccupyMLA 12/23/2012 16:34 +#omla #mla13"@valdes23: @literarychica platitudes we hear at graduation and promptly ignore, until something lets us know to pay attention"ChangerCharles 12/23/2012 21:00 At the appointed time, we met, my wife & I, a favorite locale, a bookstore specializing in medieval tomes. Replicas. #miracleChangerCharles 12/23/2012 21:05 She wore that oversized handknitted cardigan I gave her as a gift when she earned her LIS degree, 3 years ago, if memory serves #miracleChangerCharles 12/23/2012 21:10 What it was like to see her, after months, the unforgivable forgiven, the eyes slammed closed, opening a crack #miracleChangerCharles 12/23/2012 21:15 Over a poor reproduction of ?rec et ?nide, she gave me updates about the boys. Told her right off about my job interview.ChangerCharles 12/23/2012 21:20 She congratulated me, looking down at my trembling hand & informed me she was ready for me to START seeing the children again! #miracleChangerCharles 12/23/2012 21:25 However then she added, if I were to take a job half a world away all bets were off & I nearly lost my grip on Chr?tien entirely #nomiraclesOccupyMLA 12/23/2012 21:30 For PhDs: job vs. family? The choice shouldn't be betwn exploitative adjunct/online teaching & dream jobs a world away #mla13 #nomiraclesComphaze 12/23/2012 21:35 I know theres only one choice you can make there @ChangerCharles, and thats the greatest measure of your character! <hug> #whoneedsmiraclesChangerCharles 12/23/2012 21:38 @CompHaze I need to take some time to process all of this. Nonetheless, I appreciate your support.Comphaze 12/24/2012 0:13 @ChangerCharles whats he talking about?ChangerCharles 12/24/2012 0:14 @comphaze To what are you referring? I have know idea. #speakplainComphaze 12/24/2012 0:15 @changercharles Look at your DMs for once! you saw his tweets, right? how is this possible???ChangerCharles 12/24/2012 0:16 @comphaze Calm down. Everything will be all right.juanahang 12/24/2012 0:22 @ChangerCharles @CompHaze Why aren't either of you looking at DMs? This would be a good time for the channel in the backOccupyMLA 12/24/2012 2:38 We are the 999 lines! We stand strong and will continue to fight for the contingent! Join us! #mla13 #omla

Comphaze 12/24/2012 2:43 asshole #excusemyfrancesComphaze 12/24/2012 13:15 so you think you know me now? Because you know one more thing about me. well, let me be clear: Im glad its out there. Im relieved.Comphaze 12/24/2012 13:20 being exposed last year changed my life. fine. this year I dont really have anything to lose anymoreComphaze 12/24/2012 13:25 and maybe if you know what happend to me, youll understand why we need a movemnt. cause it aint just me it happens to.OccupyMLA 12/24/2012 13:30 when in a vulnerable position, u should watch which inmates u partner w - but theyre all superior to those who locked you up! #mla13ChangerCharles 12/24/2012 14:15 Welcome new followers! :)ChangerCharles 12/24/2012 14:30 RT @David_Works: John (1167?1216), k of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy & of Aquitaine, count of Anjou, was born at #Oxfo ...ChangerCharles 12/24/2012 14:30 RT @medievalbook: Looking Back: Medieval French Romance and the Dynamics of Seeing: This dissertation builds u... http://t.co/xdlZv3s5 ... http://bit.ly/TjGkXFChangerCharles 12/24/2012 19:05 Received another email today with the date and time of my Skype interview! Jan 28th! Might even buy a new webcam!ChangerCharles 12/24/2012 19:10 As I told my wife on Sunday, I need to at least go through with the interview to see what they are offering, what they are like.ChangerCharles 12/24/2012 19:20 As I told my wife, as I told my wife, as I told my wife. I LOVE typing that. But I still feel a little sick. Sick to dream. Now that's sick!OccupyMLA 12/24/2012 20:26 RT @readywriting: Essay on why candidates for academic jobs can't just be themselves | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/O02yFrQp @jessifer - ... http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2012/01/30/essay-why-candidates-academic-jobs-cant-just-be-themselves#.UNi4i9VylVA.twitterOccupyMLA 12/24/2012 20:28 @noeljackson Merry Xmas.OccupyMLA 12/24/2012 20:28 RT @palumboliu: Occupy Wall Street Forgives $100,000 Of Medical Debt (And Counting!) http://t.co/TQa5tJMQ http://truth-out.org/news/item/13508-occupy-wall-street-forgives-100000-of-medical-debt-and-countingOccupyMLA 12/24/2012 22:27 RT @pannapacker: Something about a retrospective issue of the MLA's Profession feels right: a moment of stock-taking, and asking how we ...ChangerCharles 12/25/2012 2:20 Can we all get back to working toward transforming #highered now?juanahang 12/25/2012 7:37 Feliz navidad everybody! <hugs> to you all!!ChangerCharles 12/25/2012 7:48 I am in the process of repurposing Unichange for OMLA. Hopefully, that will create a platform that enables further conversation.ChangerCharles 12/25/2012 7:48 That will also finally answer the longstanding critique of the movement, that we do not have a anything but a Twitter account.OccupyMLA 12/25/2012 7:50 RT @celloandbow: Dear Santa, I would like an #MLA13 interview for Christmas. Thanks. And a unicorn too. I know which one is more likely. ...ChangerCharles 12/25/2012 13:07 RT @Quadrivium_VII: Wishing Season's Greetings to everyone, and to all our followers who celebrate it, a very Merry Christmas, too! http ...OccupyMLA 12/25/2012 13:11 RT @DirkvonderHorst: Is anyone actually surprised Occupy was investigated by FBI? Seriously, you had to have known that was part of the ...Comphaze 12/25/2012 13:16 RT @TheSingleWoman: To all hopeful single women out there, brave enough to believe in love & magic & Happy Endings...Merry Chris ...Comphaze 12/25/2012 13:17 RT @TheSingleWoman: Happy endings, much like Christmas, push us to believe & hope & trust in something much bigger than ourselve ...OccupyMLA 12/25/2012 13:30 Holiday <hugs> to all the friends of #omla esp. all the contingent faculty out there & PhDs dreaming of teaching plums! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/25/2012 13:45 And to all the Scrooges who say: Are there no adjunct positions? Are there no #altac positions? We offer <hugs> as well! #mla13 #omlaComphaze 12/25/2012 14:07 snow outside, hoping to see my sister today. a few hours of sitting, chatting will do me wonders.ChangerCharles 12/25/2012 14:23 When I consider which present I would rather see this Xmas, I see not a job but two boys opening their gifts with wonder in their eyes.ChangerCharles 12/25/2012 16:04 Wishing I could exchange white elephant misfortunes for those of Abelard!ChangerCharles 12/25/2012 18:12 RT @SusanAbernethy2: On this day in 800 AD, Charlemagne is crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome. http://t.co/f9OC90C7 http://fb.me/1MgWJUDCgChangerCharles 12/25/2012 19:22 RT @Medievalists: Christmas in the Middle Ages http://t.co/mJlmHp5h http://ow.ly/gln7BOccupyMLA 12/25/2012 19:23 RT @hummingbird604: This Christmas I am thinking of all who didn?t get to spend the holidays with family and loved ones. Also those dise ...OccupyMLA 12/25/2012 19:23 @savasavasava. Bah <hug> bug :-)ChangerCharles 12/26/2012 2:28 RT @Medievalists: Did not get what you want for Christmas? This Cathar Castle is still for sale! http://t.co/FTdZQmiw http://ow.ly/glnoPChangerCharles 12/26/2012 2:30 RT @KelliMarshall: Well, I only laughed at Russell Crowe once. That?s something, right? #LesMiserablesChangerCharles 12/26/2012 2:31 RT @blmedieval: Happy Christmas! http://t.co/k0J6YD6T http://bit.ly/V1WMInComphaze 12/26/2012 4:05 he called me today #profdarcy. calld me out of the blue. said Xmas was a wash with his X, kids, & all. Wantd to chat abt what happend.Comphaze 12/26/2012 4:10 he wantd to splain what happned with my position, why HE made sure I was drained from the applic. pool. +Before I hung up, Him: WAITWAITWAITComphaze 12/26/2012 4:15 Me: Go! fine. listening. he says he said nothng but good things abt me as everyone did but then he realizd he had to change his position.Comphaze 12/26/2012 4:20 Me: why? did the house of asses realize they were short of holes? Him: No, waitwait, stop! Me: Speak. Him: I HAD to change my position +Comphaze 12/26/2012 4:25 Him: because I realized how dysfunctional our dept really is, how petty, how screwd up and I JUST couldnt subject you to thatComphaze 12/26/2012 4:30 ME: oh thankyou than kyou thank you thankyou. youre awesome, i adore you, please what can i do to thank you for saving me from a job?Comphaze 12/26/2012 4:35 Or maybe I hung up. yeah, wait, that sounds a little more like what #profucksake deserved!Comphaze 12/26/2012 4:40 Now I think on it, yeah, i actually did hang up on him, & I made up that line abt the "house of a's" to be clever in my recap fml

ChangerCharles 12/26/2012 7:16 http://bit.ly/YKXnDqChangerCharles 12/26/2012 7:17 RT @VCVaileNFM: Teaching conditions got you down? Cynicism? Psychic bureaucratization? Just say...: Teaching conditions got you ... http ...Comphaze 12/26/2012 10:35 i wonder if all of this isnt just the final sign that i should pack it up and find different line of workComphaze 12/26/2012 10:40 i think id be good at lots of things: law, politics, construction, piracy, real estate, dentistry -- why not?ChangerCharles 12/26/2012 13:20 Finished converting Unichange to its new form -- looks like the old URL will no longer function. I will share the new URL imminently.OccupyMLA 12/26/2012 13:30 Occupy MLA has finally created a platform for us to express more than just a tweet at a time. Still in rough draft, though. #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/26/2012 13:35 Hopefully, this will serve as a grounds for deepening and widening the discussion as well as a place to develop new strategies #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/26/2012 13:40 Please take a look at the first draft of a site for Occupy MLA! http://t.co/Eg50b9To #mla13 #omla http://occupymla.tumblr.com/ChangerCharles 12/26/2012 14:38 RT @MedievalArchive: 2012 Medieval Year in Review: Books: http://t.co/FF1O4JIw http://www.medievalarchives.com/?p=7253Comphaze 12/26/2012 14:51 self-critique free would be great too RT @roopikarisam: .@literarychica I think it might be time to start the Guilt-Free Academic Movement.Comphaze 12/26/2012 14:56 RT @literarychica: @pannapacker @roopikarisam I actually blogged earlier this year about what I called at the time "Grad Student Guilt": ...Comphaze 12/26/2012 15:02 of course the guilt is even worse if you droppd your academic writing when you started adjuncting in a life that hardly encourges schlrshipOccupyMLA 12/26/2012 15:07 dont let guilt or other peoples view of your work or stark job prospects cast you in an academic Les Miserables! Join us! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/26/2012 15:15 Or realize you are Jean Valjean! Somewhere beyond the hiring committee is there a world you long to see? #omla #mla13ChangerCharles 12/26/2012 15:19 @CompHaze You seem to be on a Les Mis kick. Was the film any good? I read that it was awful.Comphaze 12/26/2012 15:20 @ChangerCharles havent seen it. But I have lots of memories of listening to the sound track back in happier days.ChangerCharles 12/26/2012 16:29 Yes, they tell us our dream is ill logical after they nurtured that dream in us.OccupyMLA 12/26/2012 16:37 You planted the dream, and now you think us crazy for wanting it fulfilled! Inception-deception #ml13Comphaze 12/26/2012 16:39 I dreamed a dream my life would be...ChangerCharles 12/26/2012 16:41 @CompHaze all right. I think that is enough.Comphaze 12/26/2012 16:41 @ChangerCharles what? It fits.ChangerCharles 12/26/2012 16:43 @CompHaze have you become impoverished? Turned to a life of prostitution, returned to a hovel in 18th cent France?Comphaze 12/26/2012 16:44 @ChangerCharles Prostitution more or less. #adjuncthellChangerCharles 12/26/2012 16:45 @CompHaze It does not fit. Please get ahold of yourself.Comphaze 12/26/2012 16:47 @ChangerCharles you know what ive been through. youve been through the same! worse!ChangerCharles 12/26/2012 16:48 @CompHaze This selfpity is becoming pathetic, unproductive. Leave off it.Comphaze 12/26/2012 16:49 @ChangerCharles you are intolerableChangerCharles 12/26/2012 16:50 @CompHaze Self-indulgentComphaze 12/26/2012 16:54 Oh I am? Really? RT @ChangerCharles: @CompHaze Self-indulgentComphaze 12/26/2012 16:54 Oh i am the one, really?! RT @ChangerCharles: @CompHaze Self-indulgentChangerCharles 12/26/2012 16:55 @CompHaze If shoe=fits...Comphaze 12/26/2012 16:56 @ChangerCharles have you been following what ive been throough? do you have ANY idea?ChangerCharles 12/26/2012 16:59 @CompHaze Sigh. Yes. I have ready EVERY tweet. You know that. I am sorry. But my dear, the time has come to end your wallowing.Comphaze 12/26/2012 17:02 @ChangerCharles and YOU DONT WALLOW?ChangerCharles 12/26/2012 17:05 @CompHaze Whom do you think I am addressing? We have known loss, we have suffered much, but the time has come to move on. Us both!Comphaze 12/26/2012 17:06 @ChangerCharles have you heard anything more? about getting to see the boys?ChangerCharles 12/26/2012 17:06 @CompHaze noComphaze 12/26/2012 17:08 @ChangerCharles but it sounds hopeful, might get to see your family soon, right?ChangerCharles 12/26/2012 17:09 @CompHaze I don't knowChangerCharles 12/26/2012 17:11 @CompHaze however, if there is anything this holiday has proven to me,spending most of it glued to twitter feeds it's that...OccupyMLA 12/26/2012 17:13 Because we have fought on together, youre my family. #mla13 #OMLA!Comphaze 12/26/2012 17:14 @ChangerCharles you forgot an apostrophe. :)Comphaze 12/26/2012 17:15 @ChangerCharles I know you dont accept these eaily, but <hug>ChangerCharles 12/26/2012 17:16 @CompHaze You are my colleague, my friend, & my family. So buck up! Be calm and occupy! :)Comphaze 12/26/2012 17:17 @ChangerCharles :)Comphaze 12/26/2012 17:47 @rgfeal :(ChangerCharles 12/26/2012 19:20 Many Boxing Day memories of snowplay with my boys...OccupyMLA 12/26/2012 21:28 RT @drkassorla: @occupymla I think some time soon all the writing teachers in America need to walk out and demand living wages. #underpa ...OccupyMLA 12/26/2012 21:55 RT @drkassorla: @occupymla We are paid less because our job "doesn't exist in the real world?" Try to run a university without us! We ne ...OccupyMLA 12/26/2012 22:18 @drkassorla You are a kindred spirit! Keep up the fight!OccupyMLA 12/26/2012 23:43 RT @StrikeDebt: 1 in 7 Americans being pursued by a debt collector. Fix that debt, @Starbucks. #fixthedebtOccupyMLA 12/26/2012 23:43 RT @StrikeDebt: what are you doing for boxing day? We're boxing debt. Knock it out, strike it down!OccupyMLA 12/26/2012 23:44 RT @ProfessorIsIn: Hope everyone's enjoying their break! Don't forget--Interview Bootcamp Webinar tomorrow, 1:30 PM Pacific/4:30... htt ...OccupyMLA 12/27/2012 3:00 RT @BendProf: Read this The End of the Community College English Profession by Keith Kroll and let's discuss at #mla13: http://t.co/bTe11OGh http://bit.ly/Yh0i1Rjuanahang 12/27/2012 4:10 RT @chefjeffdc: Who's it going to be?? #TopChef @ChrisCrary @Bravotv @BravoTopChefjuanahang 12/27/2012 4:13 Hey @CompHaze & @ChangerCharles we should totally pick a sesh at the big M to O -- or gather supporters, rallyChangerCharles 12/27/2012 4:14 @juanahang Backchannel that shit.juanahang 12/27/2012 4:15 @changercharles LMAO, no seriosly, I'm actually thinking the feedback from the crowd would be helpful.ChangerCharles 12/27/2012 4:16 @juanahang the crowd that is following these tweets is not a supportive crowd (no offense, folks)Comphaze 12/27/2012 4:17 @changercharles what *is* that? Are you performing for someone?ChangerCharles 12/27/2012 4:17 @comphaze Always. Always. This *is* Twitter after all.Comphaze 12/27/2012 4:18 @changercharles oh, rt, sure. yawn. someone in particular? Or just john and I?ChangerCharles 12/27/2012 4:19 @comphaze I'm sure they know. I am absolutely certain. [waves]Comphaze 12/27/2012 4:20 @changercharles and you wonder why people seem out to get you. OR actually, you probably don't wonder.juanahang 12/27/2012 4:22 @CompHaze @ChangerCharles Can't we just pick a sesh? I know it's just me -- but if we strategize, we can announce. How about Th. or Fri?

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ChangerCharles 12/27/2012 4:23 @comphaze Can't I have any fun?Comphaze 12/27/2012 4:24 @changercharles you tell me. youre the one that wants this all to be taken so seriously, rt?juanahang 12/27/2012 4:26 @ChangerCharles @CompHaze Guys! Come ON! HELLO! You can see my tweets. I know you can.ChangerCharles 12/27/2012 4:27 @comphaze Believe me, we ARE being taken seriously.juanahang 12/27/2012 4:28 @CompHaze @ChangerCharles HEEEELLLLLOOOOO! Yoo--hoo! HeLLLOO!Comphaze 12/27/2012 4:30 @changercharles why do you even @ me?! you are so CLEARLY addressing somebody else. i just want to know who???juanahang 12/27/2012 4:31 La La LA LAAAA LA LA La La! Do you HEAR the PEOPLE SING? LA LA LA!ChangerCharles 12/27/2012 4:32 @comphaze But Hazel, you know as well as I do, no tweet is addressed to just one person.juanahang 12/27/2012 4:33 @changercharles @CompHaze Deep, oh, so deep. Now can we please choose a sesh? I gotta get goin.Comphaze 12/27/2012 4:35 @juanahang just pick one. youre the one going. whatevers easiest looks best to you.juanahang 12/27/2012 4:36 @comphaze fine. I'm going to ask through the account. #whatevaOccupyMLA 12/27/2012 4:40 Looking for sessions open to #OMLA supporters 4 possible gathering spot. We promise not to occupy your QA period! We're polite. #mla13OccupyMLA 12/27/2012 5:00 RT @ChristelLenore: I'm leaving the #adjunct faculty life, but this is for my friends and colleagues still living it: http://t.co/8nQ3pi ...OccupyMLA 12/27/2012 5:04 RT @hanzimano: adjunct project tells all #mla13 http://t.co/2JSdOZIz adjuncts work for $1600 per class. Add that up. http://www.adjunctproject.com/us/OccupyMLA 12/27/2012 5:31 RT @noeljackson: I added what I know about my home unit's hiring/labor practices to http://t.co/6628EZmo. Do you the same, mofos. http://www.adjunctproject.com/OccupyMLA 12/27/2012 5:32 RT @BenRobertson: @hanzimano i had a friend get offered $800 for a class once. he didn't get the job b/c he did a literal spit takeChangerCharles 12/27/2012 5:36 RT @medievalbook: Top 10 Medieval News Stories of 2012: The year 2011 was one of fascinating discoveries, some ... http://t.co/4kv3LuxA ... http://bit.ly/YOy2srComphaze 12/27/2012 12:52 RT @JustMeloo21: Recovering from an upsetting split is not unlike getting over a hangover and praying to the porcelain god.Comphaze 12/27/2012 12:52 RT @JustMeloo21: You just have to wait it out and hold your hair back.OccupyMLA 12/27/2012 14:20 Don't miss the new site for #OMLA organizing: http://t.co/KtISFLwb #mla13 #omla http://occupymla.tumblr.comComphaze 12/27/2012 15:31 Just got an email, opportunity to sub for a friend on maternity who teaches AP English at a local high school -- cozygigComphaze 12/27/2012 15:35 Looks like it might be during the winter short-mester at the college -- friend needs me to help -- just had adorbs twins!Comphaze 12/27/2012 15:40 Oh and the pay -- even for subbing would in a month equal 1 course ajuncting at the collegeComphaze 12/27/2012 15:45 Could get me away from #profdarcy for a while, just what I need. But HS? I have some cousins that age, cant really see myself doing itOccupyMLA 12/27/2012 16:29 RT @brendabethman: @DonnaBickford Also, current issue of @MLAnews Profession just came. Might be useful to us.ChangerCharles 12/27/2012 16:36 RT @SusanAbernethy2: From the archives: Aethelflaed, Lady of Mercia was the daughter of Alfred the Great of England. She fought the... ...ChangerCharles 12/27/2012 16:38 @CompHaze Hormones and snotty cliques?? I would think twice, thrice, or not at all.ChangerCharles 12/27/2012 16:51 Although in academia, the cliques don't exactly go away.OccupyMLA 12/27/2012 18:55 There are MORE options for your degrees overseas! Seize, Louise! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/27/2012 20:19 RT @OccupyColleges: Lavish infrastructure is a fascade to mask the poverty wages and immense debt within academia. http://t.co/UMQzBltF http://fb.me/1RsOXxwMAOccupyMLA 12/27/2012 20:20 Rt @StrikeDebt: Help us build the #StrikeDebt People's Mic! Pledge one tweet or FB post per day here: http://t.co/0JQW3y2w |#mla13 #omla http://donateyouraccount.com/StrikeDebtOccupyMLA 12/27/2012 23:10 RT @StrikeDebt: Tuition has gone up 500% in recent years. Who will #fixthedebt for student debtors? #fiscalcliffChangerCharles 12/28/2012 6:35 Just finished my Skype interview. My excitement runneth over. I cannot contain it, this job is more than just FT teaching!!!ChangerCharles 12/28/2012 6:40 In addition to teaching survey, every other year, I can teach the author of my choice -- even as far back as -- Wait for it! -- Chr?tien!ChangerCharles 12/28/2012 6:45 They actually said Chr?tien would be "perfectly acceptable"! I am positively out of my gourd! #miracleChangerCharles 12/28/2012 6:50 They did not no when, exactly, but said they would have to make a decision soon. Offers would be forthcoming as early as a week! #miracle?Comphaze 12/28/2012 12:34 RT @TheSingleWoman: It's not okay to hide behind self-love in order to avoid self-improvement. Be content without being complacent. #TheSWComphaze 12/28/2012 12:38 RT @readywriting: If there's one thing growing up in Quebec and seeing the Printemps d'erables taught me, it's that massive mobilization ...Comphaze 12/28/2012 12:38 RT @Jessifer: @readywriting @pannapacker Adjuncts are big and powerful. Many universities would come to a screeching halt without them...OccupyMLA 12/28/2012 12:45 RT @prof_anne: The world is too much with us; late and soon,/ Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers @georgey_girlOccupyMLA 12/28/2012 12:52 RT @Jessifer: Higher education pushes out the exact wrong people. Those wrong people are about to rise up. We need more right leaders of ...OccupyMLA 12/28/2012 12:52 RT @readywriting: @Jessifer Yup. But those who could lead either leave or are too exhausted.OccupyMLA 12/28/2012 12:52 RT @readywriting: @Jessifer I dream of the day when we bring the university to a screeching halt for a day. We all just walk away.OccupyMLA 12/28/2012 12:52 RT @readywriting: @Jessifer You'd need to reach critical mass for it to make a difference. And, most adjuncts are (rightfully) afraid.OccupyMLA 12/28/2012 12:53 RT @Jessifer: @readywriting @pannapacker Adjuncts are big and powerful. Many universities would come to a screeching halt without them...OccupyMLA 12/28/2012 12:53 RT @Jessifer: @readywriting @pannapacker I have this strong desire to create a patronage system for good teachers.OccupyMLA 12/28/2012 13:08 Still looking for more #omla-friendly panels. We cont. to build our guide to Occupy #mla13 Thnx for the ones you've sent so far!OccupyMLA 12/28/2012 13:15 Hate waking up with that not-so-fresh PhD feeling? Could it really go stale?? Join us! #mla13 #omlaComphaze 12/28/2012 13:20 @readywriting yes, what can we be but afraid? its a vulnerable place. Tho we can speak out! Keep it up, Lee. you speak for us!ChangerCharles 12/28/2012 13:23 @SarahEBond @chronicle That sounds reprehensibly irresponsible.ChangerCharles 12/28/2012 13:25 @CompHaze I may have to request that you stop retweeting the sickening selfhelp of @TheSingWomanComphaze 12/28/2012 13:26 @ChangerCharles oh, really? But I mean those tweets for you, CharlesChangerCharles 12/28/2012 13:27 @CompHaze How flattering that you would think of me so.ChangerCharles 12/28/2012 13:29 @SarahEBond @chronicle Ah, I see. I was not aware. They would flourish on Twitter! IMHO.Comphaze 12/28/2012 13:30 @ChangerCharles if shoe=fits... ;)ChangerCharles 12/28/2012 13:31 @CompHaze Those selfpatronizing tweets send me into fits!ChangerCharles 12/28/2012 13:32 @CompHaze My dear Chretien has FAR more to offer on all these accounts, and he wraps them in shrouds of most encompassing fiction!Comphaze 12/28/2012 13:34 @ChangerCharles who needs shrouds of fiction? Really. i prefer my advice 4 living served straight upChangerCharles 12/28/2012 13:35 Touche RT @CompHaze: @ChangerCharles who needs shrouds of fiction? Really. i prefer my advice 4 living served straight upComphaze 12/28/2012 15:35 found out more abt HS job: its not your typical overcrowded factory high school but a pricey college prepy kind, grads go to iviesComphaze 12/28/2012 15:40 Sub position would mostly b during winter interterm at the college - could might run over into the semester. but its a shot to get awayComphaze 12/28/2012 15:45 could mean footinthedoor at that school and a taste of something that could mean a footoutofthedoor at #profdarcy's school!Comphaze 12/28/2012 15:50 And -- am I really married to teaching college? not even dating it! Im like the wannabe lover of teaching college. hanging on. eponine.Comphaze 12/28/2012 15:55 If you leave college teaching -- its really hard to get back into it -- from what Ive seen -- the friend with the twins has a PhDOccupyMLA 12/28/2012 15:55 @brendabethman Only that you want #omla and OMLA supporters to come! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/28/2012 16:00 So backwards: there r more opps for PhDs who want to teach those who want to get into the college where they adjunct! #mla13Comphaze 12/28/2012 16:10 dont want to end up like eponine, do I now, whiny and pathetic. maybe I'll pick a new role model. from Cats!Comphaze 12/28/2012 16:15 I could actually teach Cats! at the HS -- teach Lit! Not just how to write paragrphs! Lit! They read like crazy AP classes, pretty amzng!OccupyMLA 12/28/2012 16:30 This year, to show you stand with #OMLA, put a penny in your badge holder. 1 cent to symbolize the 99% #mla13OccupyMLA 12/28/2012 16:45 99 pennies might be more fitting, but that might make for a very uncomfortable badge. #mla13ChangerCharles 12/28/2012 18:30 The time has come to stop making nice with everyone. I do not want to be altac. I do not want some other position. I. Want. To. Teach. Lit.OccupyMLA 12/28/2012 18:35 Do you dream of teaching literature in college? Keep dreaming! Join us! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/28/2012 20:25 See the new #OMLA website! A site for those who wish to change the profession! http://t.co/KtISFLwb #mla13 #omla http://occupymla.tumblr.comOccupyMLA 12/29/2012 0:55 Okay #altac, the wedding's off! Sorry, my heart is with another lover with unmetered locks and blushing prose, lit, lit, Lit! #mla13 #omlaComphaze 12/29/2012 2:28 RT @TheSingleWoman: Some days aren't about leaps & bounds. Some days are just one foot in front of the other. And that's okay. #TheSWComphaze 12/29/2012 2:28 RT @BendProf: Interested in community colleges? Sessions related to community colleges at #mla13--all are welcome: http://t.co/JIRETVqc http://bit.ly/Vm6VlgOccupyMLA 12/29/2012 2:30 #adjuncts are like girls crushing, making mountains out of occasional smiles, listening for the ring tone, strung along #mla13 #omlaChangerCharles 12/29/2012 4:02 @SusanAbernethy2 @FurnessHistory @BeingBess @BuffHistory Happiest of New Year's to you. May your days be illuminated!juanahang 12/29/2012 7:17 RT @CaliIndia: @TylerFlorence Your recipes are always a hit at my gatherings! Can't wait to get your new book tomorrow!OccupyMLA 12/29/2012 7:19 @celloandbow its actually full of self-loathing of sorts -- not meant to indict anyone but myselfOccupyMLA 12/29/2012 14:00 Announcing the #OMLA Session Guide to #MLA13 Recommendations for those who support our movement! http://t.co/YSF5HOTt http://occupymla.tumblr.com/scheduleOccupyMLA 12/29/2012 14:10 Be sure to place 1 penny in your badge if you support the goals of #OMLA for highered reform, adjunct rights, etc. #mla13Comphaze 12/29/2012 14:11 the face of the snow outside my window is stark and blank and smooth and i have to close my eyes to dream of coffee black & brightOccupyMLA 12/29/2012 14:20 We invite ALL #OMLA supporters to attend #s270 #mla13 as we have been invited by the organizer @brendabethmanOccupyMLA 12/29/2012 14:29 @brendabethman We bring disobedience at its most civil! Accommodating MLA #mla13 #s270Comphaze 12/29/2012 14:44 @changercharles must you ALWAYS antagonize? And we should TALK b4 u decide to relaunch an assault on alt!ChangerCharles 12/29/2012 14:48 @CompHaze I am so utterly tired of making nice. We must stand for SOMETHING.Comphaze 12/29/2012 14:50 @ChangerCharles standing up and needling are NOT the same thing. we need all the allies we can get!ChangerCharles 12/29/2012 14:52 @CompHaze And where has that gotten us? We are still the object of scorn and derision, & the socalled profession is entirely unaltered.OccupyMLA 12/29/2012 15:30 RT @literarychica: @occupymla Here is a description of our session, #s270 #MLA13 http://t.co/Xmsw9eCB @brendabethman http://mla13.org/270OccupyMLA 12/29/2012 16:03 "@celloandbow: @occupymla Set an expiration date for adjuncting. We deserve employment with dignity and a living wage." #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/29/2012 19:59 @noeljackson it's a big program. Which ones should we add?juanahang 12/29/2012 20:40 Man, thinking about my own dumb luck, just can't figure how the hackademy got to be so mean.juanahang 12/29/2012 20:43 Not mean, just, all exploity, tragic really. But were unis ever really a place for social change or just reinforcement of status quotus?OccupyMLA 12/29/2012 20:44 Were unis ever places of social change/justice or always just bulwarks to protect the status quote-us? #mla13 #omlaChangerCharles 12/29/2012 20:59 @readywriting No, heavens, no, no, dear girl, please, no.juanahang 12/29/2012 21:00 @evbee Oooooh! Me! Me! [Waves hand!]ChangerCharles 12/29/2012 21:01 @readywriting God bless you. You will be repaid in presenter heaven -- rather than than being reborn as a Prezi projector!OccupyMLA 12/29/2012 21:30 "A College Christmas Carol" by @NewFacMajority http://t.co/JO1MtbIz #mla13 #omla http://ow.ly/gqtkLOccupyMLA 12/29/2012 21:38 @noeljackson Oh, those are good finds. I or one of the others will add them to the list this evening.OccupyMLA 12/29/2012 22:05 RT @pannapacker: Isn't the rhetoric of "love" in academe (i.e., "you must love it") similar to its use for other kinds of uncompensated ...OccupyMLA 12/29/2012 22:10 RT @pannapacker: So, as the humanities have become more "feminized," and wages/conditions deteriorate, the rhetoric of "love" becomes mo ...Comphaze 12/29/2012 22:12 the cold makes me curl up from my head to my soul, a long year recedes into numbness, a sense of missed opportunities disperses in the quietOccupyMLA 12/30/2012 0:05 "How Do I Ask If There Is An Inside Candidate?" @professorisin http://t.co/nmDCObgi but being an "inside adjunct" can be a blackmark #mla13 http://ow.ly/gqtotOccupyMLA 12/30/2012 2:04 RT @brendabethman: @pannapacker @readywriting @ChuckRybak @qui_oui @normasalim Let me put it this way I think I deserve a raise. But I t ...OccupyMLA 12/30/2012 2:05 RT @brendabethman: @pannapacker @readywriting @ChuckRybak @qui_oui @normasalim one more. So I?d advocate for them first. Because I?m oka ...OccupyMLA 12/30/2012 2:05 RT @readywriting: @brendabethman @pannapacker @chuckrybak @qui_oui @normasalim I love and believe in what I do, but I won't let them exp ...OccupyMLA 12/30/2012 2:40 RT @pannapacker: @ChuckRybak @brendabethman @qui_oui @readywriting @normasalim The "could be worse"rhetoric is always contra labor inter ...OccupyMLA 12/30/2012 3:00 #omla supporters: please be gracious and frame the BIG questions as questions rather than as essay-length comments! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/30/2012 7:14 RT @cobraforphd: @MLAconvention @normasalim @readywriting @brendabethman - I think it's high time for a conversation about class in acad ...

ChangerCharles 12/30/2012 12:13 RT @Medievalists: Article: The manufacture of chain-mail http://t.co/dGhII1r3 #AllRequestSunday http://ow.ly/gqIPEChangerCharles 12/30/2012 12:15 RT @Medievalists: Article: Papal Intervention In England in the Thirteenth Century http://t.co/wDvNFIhD #AllRequestSunday http://ow.ly/gqIZEChangerCharles 12/30/2012 12:16 RT @PostFilm: Media - Interactive World: 11 Laws of Viral Video - Part 1 http://t.co/D8OnlgMV #edtech #video4change #ict4dev #nonprofit http://cmactivist.blogspot.com/2011/11/11-laws-of-viral-video-part-1.html?spref=twComphaze 12/30/2012 13:54 RT @warrenellis: I see no reason to get out of bed today, or, indeed, this week.OccupyMLA 12/30/2012 13:55 RT @MLAconvention: Feedback or comments you post when using http://t.co/FYI2GaF6 can be remarks on content of presentation, links to res ... http://mla13.orgComphaze 12/30/2012 14:05 there was a time when i used to wake up, dreaming new paragraphs for my dissertation, revising in my sleepComphaze 12/30/2012 14:10 visions of faculty slots danced in my head.Comphaze 12/30/2012 14:15 i was of course comparatively younger, not exactly innocent, but, as far as the profession goes, naive. its easy to beComphaze 12/30/2012 14:20 20 wrinkles & 30 pounds ago, giver take. although i think i have improved my hair -- finally cut that shitComphaze 12/30/2012 14:25 i mean, why did we get in this? not for money not for fame or glamor or vanity, but because we loved to read books & talk about them andChangerCharles 12/30/2012 14:30 RT @CompHaze: i mean, why did we get in this? not for money not for fame or glamor or vanity, but because we loved to read books & t ...Comphaze 12/30/2012 14:30 i dont speak for everyone of course -- academia is probably evry kind of vice and hiding place and geeksupport clubComphaze 12/30/2012 14:30 & we were good at it, better than theothers, we could find things, the meaning of things, the meaning of things in our worldComphaze 12/30/2012 14:35 & literature was EVERYTHING, explained everything: psychology, sociology, politics, economics, history, religion, belief, human natureChangerCharles 12/30/2012 14:35 RT @CompHaze: & we were good at it, better than theothers, we could find things, the meaning of things, the meaning of things in our ...Comphaze 12/30/2012 14:40 we excelld past our peers and learned we could cont. in grad school where they fed us theory & showed us dance moves seeming swift&boldComphaze 12/30/2012 14:45 &then began the seasons of abuse that wld condition of us for the job market: quals/comps, prospectus, dissertation chairs & committeesChangerCharles 12/30/2012 14:45 @CompHaze dance moves? More like a complete distraction from the pursuit of literature and all its delights!Comphaze 12/30/2012 14:50 people who workd as obstacles, whose pedagogical approach was to obstruct our progress, diminish our self esttemComphaze 12/30/2012 14:55 so when the first rejection lettrs came in we were setback but not surprised. we had acquired a taste for rejection and failureComphaze 12/30/2012 15:01 i am sorry i am sorry idont mean to whine -- #migrainetimeComphaze 12/30/2012 15:05 i shouldve stopped typing when the spots first appeared, when the carpet beside my bed turned to water, waves in myvisionComphaze 12/30/2012 15:10 but this morning the shit is piled to highest around me & i would like to bury some old ambitions because my feet vebeen stuck in it 2longComphaze 12/30/2012 15:15 & #profdarcy is an ass wrapped in an assholeOccupyMLA 12/30/2012 15:20 people have lied to you abt the prospects for your prospectus but its okay because you love literature. join us #mla13 #omlaComphaze 12/30/2012 15:25 &Im tired of wanting something that is so very unreasonable and that has suckd every drop of love i had for the thing i lovd most of allComphaze 12/30/2012 15:30 language, literature, poetry, interpretation, storyOccupyMLA 12/30/2012 15:35 Speech after long silence; it is right,/All other lovers being estranged or dead,/Unfriendly lamplight hid under its shade #mla13OccupyMLA 12/30/2012 15:40 The curtains drawn upon unfriendly night,/That we descant and yet again descant/Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song #mla13Comphaze 12/30/2012 15:45 Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young/We loved each other and were ignorant.OccupyMLA 12/30/2012 17:00 Please see the *updated* OMLA guide to #MLA13: http://t.co/YSF5HOTt (thnx @noeljackson) Join us! http://occupymla.tumblr.com/scheduleOccupyMLA 12/30/2012 17:15 Don't miss the #OMLA gathering for session #s270 on Friday to which we have received a special invitation. #mla13OccupyMLA 12/30/2012 19:50 Remember, to signify your support of Occupy MLA, adjunct rights, highered reform, place one penny in your #mla13 name badge.OccupyMLA 12/31/2012 1:02 @stopdavidbrooks oh, why not?ChangerCharles 12/31/2012 1:05 No more the shadow of the waxwing slain, it is time to step into the light.ChangerCharles 12/31/2012 1:10 As a new year begins, a hope for the future of the profession is in our hands #omla Join us!ChangerCharles 12/31/2012 1:20 Yes, for those of you who know #OMLA, but do not know me, I am one of the members of Occupy MLA.ChangerCharles 12/31/2012 1:23 @noeljackson You are one of the heroes. Thank you for your support AND defense!ChangerCharles 12/31/2012 1:25 For too long, I have hid behind that fiction, what some would call a hoax, but I call a public demonstration! #omlaChangerCharles 12/31/2012 1:28 @readywriting And, my dear, you are also one, one whose leadership we have followed for years! #omlaChangerCharles 12/31/2012 1:30 So I tweet before you those two magical words: Join us! #omlaChangerCharles 12/31/2012 1:35 Of course, my declaration is not exactly a mark of bravery, as a number of those in the know already know & have even contacted me directly.ChangerCharles 12/31/2012 1:35 @roopikarisam Thank you, and thank you for also coming to the defense of our anonymity.OccupyMLA 12/31/2012 2:10 @teacheronradio Excellent. What more can you tell is about your session? #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 12/31/2012 5:21 @readywriting We have some suggestions for you! http://t.co/YSF5HOTt (of course, your sessions are here, too!) #mla13 http://occupymla.tumblr.com/scheduleComphaze 12/31/2012 5:25 okay, so its just a matter of time before people figure out who we are, and a few have already, but not quite sure i will announceComphaze 12/31/2012 5:26 whats the advantage of making a formal proclamation? & once we announce, we announce, its more than just the stalkers whod knowComphaze 12/31/2012 5:27 but maybe it would take the stigma off it, & people would be forced to confront us directly rather than what happened last yearComphaze 12/31/2012 5:29 & if youve no idea what Im tweeting about, its not worth bothering 2 find out but maybe the fact that im tweeting means i dont give a fckOccupyMLA 12/31/2012 5:38 RT @phdsisters: The Abysmal State of #Adjunct Pay | http://t.co/9aGH3keU | #phd #academia #education http://ow.ly/g7vXJOccupyMLA 12/31/2012 5:38 RT @KempWrites: @jwnychange @MHarrisPerry #Adjunct profs make less than many NYC fast-food workers. #college #tuition #fees #pti #busine ...OccupyMLA 12/31/2012 5:39 RT @jimgrenier: I love teaching, but it's getting harder and harder to do the wandering #Adjunct thing. For me, it's time to punt: http: ...Comphaze 12/31/2012 9:23 migrain=receded, body=beat, mind=numbChangerCharles 12/31/2012 9:53 @CompHaze dear girl, good fortune is likely to wend its way to you in 2013! Sending cheer.ChangerCharles 12/31/2012 9:55 Though I predict my future of cold, beery, sneery responses from the cliquacademy has only begun.Comphaze 12/31/2012 10:01 @ChangerCharles does it feel anybetter to walk out into the open? i can tell theyve already found me w/o me making an announcementChangerCharles 12/31/2012 10:02 @CompHaze Yes. Absolutely. You should try it.Comphaze 12/31/2012 10:04 @ChangerCharles like i said, im not sure what difference it makes. theyve already found me. my fate is sealed.ChangerCharles 12/31/2012 10:06 @CompHaze It will make a difference to you and how you see yourself & even how others esteem your courage. You are courageous!OccupyMLA 12/31/2012 10:08 We must have the courage to own our dreams of a better profession, one that delivers on promises or stops leading us on. #mla13 #omlaComphaze 12/31/2012 10:10 @ChangerCharles but i wasnt led on by any1 othr than myself writing myself into a romance i forgot was the stuff of fiction & seminar papersChangerCharles 12/31/2012 10:16 @CompHaze Take heart, my Jeanne d'Arc, take heart!ChangerCharles 12/31/2012 11:53 RT @EnglishTreasure: In March 1675, Sir John Flamsteed became the first 'Astronomer Royal', an appointment made by King Charles II...OccupyMLA 12/31/2012 11:54 RT @rgfeal: I will be live-tweeting #MLA13 starting on Jan 2. Follow @rgfeal for the executive director's perspective--fourth year now!ChangerCharles 12/31/2012 12:01 Twitter quite possibly skews the convention in a way that is damaging to the majority of scholars and the profession.OccupyMLA 12/31/2012 12:11 Place just one penny in your #mla13 badge to signify your support for those less fortunate than you in the profession #omlaOccupyMLA 12/31/2012 12:13 In part the penny marks the 99% who make up the @newfacmajority #omlaOccupyMLA 12/31/2012 12:21 But it would be silly to put 99 pennies or even 999 in your badge.Comphaze 12/31/2012 14:25 More on the HS job -- saw my friends syllabus -- its MORE advanced than what I put on my writing class at the college! More lit!Comphaze 12/31/2012 14:40 But heres the screwd part --if I dont sign on to teach my courses at the college & do the WC again, I might lose my fake adjunct seniorityComphaze 12/31/2012 14:45 gotta be a name for these. theyre not golden handcuffs -- more like handcuffs made of paper macheOccupyMLA 12/31/2012 14:50 Instead of golden handcuffs, the handcuffs used to keep adjuncts tied to their measly positions are made out of paper mache IOUs #mla13Comphaze 12/31/2012 15:08 RT @Emily_Isaacson: This blog post is about as much public reflection as I'd like to do. I'm hoping for a better year in 2013: http://t. ...ChangerCharles 12/31/2012 15:25 RT @SusanAbernethy2: Photo of the Burgundy Ducal castle in the town of Semur en Auxois, Burgundy, France. From our friends Les... http: ...OccupyMLA 12/31/2012 15:30 Reminder: the #OMLA guide to #MLA13 is out! We've carved out a conference from the formless mound http://t.co/YSF5HOTt http://occupymla.tumblr.com/scheduleChangerCharles 12/31/2012 15:50 RT @SusanAbernethy2: Photo of the Palace of Westminster in the 1860's. http://t.co/7aERI962 http://fb.me/1hF6mrSayOccupyMLA 12/31/2012 15:57 The future of university teaching is bright as a Coursera video. Who needs tenure? Just signup for Paypal. Maybe you should join us! #mla13Comphaze 12/31/2012 16:11 RT @nancyflanagan: Ed reform naivete: idea that good people couldn?t be co-opted by not-so-good people should be part of conversation. h ...OccupyMLA 12/31/2012 16:28 RT @profology: Is your institution getting top-heavy? Administrative Bloat at America?s #Colleges and #Universities http://t.co/y2hNGbYd ... http://ow.ly/grXX4OccupyMLA 12/31/2012 17:20 #s270 is the Official Occupy MLA meeting session. Please attend! & Put a penny in your badge to signal your support! #mla13OccupyMLA 12/31/2012 18:50 RT @AdjunctNation: AdjunctNation wishes all of our absolutely awesome Tweeps a safe, happy and healthy #2013!OccupyMLA 12/31/2012 18:51 @AdjunctNation right back at ya!ChangerCharles 12/31/2012 19:20 Dreamed your PhD would lead to more than an adjunct slot or PT-teaching? Join us! #omla #MLA13OccupyMLA 12/31/2012 20:23 RT @readywriting: And the second one is done. Check out my Storify page to see my two "talks." http://t.co/XSvHD6ou #mla13 http://storify.com/readywritingComphaze 12/31/2012 20:25 RT @TheSingleWoman: Today we are celebrating a "New Year. New Chapter. New YOU." Check it out --> http://t.co/KeUy1OBv http://TheSingleWoman.netChangerCharles 12/31/2012 20:32 RT @DustyProfessor: @Medievalists I never knew anything about Vikings or the Battle of Maldon until I was 27! Just think of the fun I co ...ChangerCharles 12/31/2012 20:38 RT @pannapacker: What I want from #MLA13: the feeling that we (grad students, contingents, tenured, admins) are all in this together and ...ChangerCharles 1/1/2013 2:10 Several unreturned calls from my wife, hopes flagging, memories of New Year's past add little comfort.ChangerCharles 1/1/2013 2:25 As the year comes to a close, my pessimism kicks in, I suspect I will neither win the job nor my family back. My old sour acquaintance.ChangerCharles 1/1/2013 6:19 Crease stains on my face from the book I fell asleep on, the only way to commence a year. Ges?lig Niw Gear!ChangerCharles 1/1/2013 6:20 May 2013 bring you to your dreams of both family AND career!OccupyMLA 1/1/2013 6:26 RT @pannapacker: What I want from #MLA13: the feeling that we (grad students, contingents, tenured, admins) are all in this together and ...OccupyMLA 1/1/2013 7:17 RT @VCVaileNFM: 2012 was an important transitional year for us?2013 promises even more progress?...: 2012 was an important trans... http ...ChangerCharles 1/1/2013 7:47 Why is it that my hope retreats the moment I spy out of my peripheral vision or off in the distance a glimmer of a change in fortune?OccupyMLA 1/1/2013 7:59 @savasavasava <hugs> for 2013OccupyMLA 1/1/2013 11:10 Here's to real and meaningful change to the plight of contingent faculty and unemployed PhDs in 2013! Happy New Year! #omla #mla13OccupyMLA 1/1/2013 15:16 RT @BenRobertson: And when the publications finally run dry, all tenure will be denied. #mla13ChangerCharles 1/1/2013 15:23 RT @OccupAnthro: "Given a harmless chance to make a quick euro by telling a white lie, budding economists and corporate executives... ht ...ChangerCharles 1/1/2013 15:24 RT @jeffreyjcohen: It is possible that my essay for Speculative Medievalisms is my most obscure and vatic yet. I adopted an alien style ...ChangerCharles 1/1/2013 15:26 RT @SusanAbernethy2: Photo of Princess Maria 'Missy' of Edinburgh, later Queen of Romania http://t.co/tlhB3sGy http://fb.me/25OLv8B7IComphaze 1/1/2013 15:26 RT @TheSingleWoman: There have been highs & lows this year..there will be highs & lows next year..but guess what? We're still st ...OccupyMLA 1/1/2013 15:33 Welcome to 2013: Year of the Adjunct! Rise! Join us! #omla #mla13 @AdjunctHulk @NewFacMajority @VCVaileNFMOccupyMLA 1/1/2013 15:37 Should thoughts of tenure be forgot & never brought to bind, let's drink a cup of empty dreams & exploitive contracts sign #mla13ChangerCharles 1/1/2013 15:41 Perhaps you should invite @adjunctnation rather than @adjuncthulk. I believe the latter has found an #altac career!OccupyMLA 1/1/2013 16:00 If you support the least powerful in the academy, join us for session #s270 #mla13 (We have been invited to attend -- so lets rally!)Comphaze 1/1/2013 17:05 This is a special HAppy New YEars FML! #2013begignsComphaze 1/1/2013 17:10 Was at the grocery store to pick up some cornbeef & cabbage for new years day. Saw 2 of the fac from the college chatting next aisle over.Comphaze 1/1/2013 17:15 they didnt see me. but I could hear them talking, gossiping.Comphaze 1/1/2013 17:20 OH: we dodged a bullet with that Hazel. Did you see the way he looked when we voted her down? [they scoff together]Comphaze 1/1/2013 17:25 OH: Its a hiring committee not a dating service. And isnt he getting back with [his exwife] anyway? #profdarcy #redacted

Comphaze 1/1/2013 17:30 OH: who knows. I hear hes been hanging out with the studens. tutoring, office hours, oncampus, offcampus. #profdarcyComphaze 1/1/2013 17:40 so I hid behind shelves of soup and cereal and waitd till they left and and waited till i wasnt shaking andfmlOccupyMLA 1/1/2013 19:00 Still making plans for #MLA13? See our session guide: http://t.co/YSF5HOTt #omla Join us! http://occupymla.tumblr.com/schedulejuanahang 1/1/2013 19:59 Back in the tweet-o-verse after cooking up a storm (professionally, mind u) for private NewYears party at the restau They let me do the menujuanahang 1/1/2013 20:01 the restau is such a great counter -balance -point to the cliquademy . . . recharges my fighting spirit for #omlajuanahang 1/1/2013 20:03 before getting all practical, let me get all philosophical. So bizarre I'm handed academy privlge only AFTER not wanting it! I gave up!juanahang 1/1/2013 20:04 I turned my back on professoring and embraced cooking and LOOK who's offering me delicacies on a silver platter now! Ha, the Highrony!juanahang 1/1/2013 20:07 So now tomorrow I'm off to see the blizzard, the wonderful blizzard of Boz ton. I'll be on the other side of the table, hiring, at #mla13juanahang 1/1/2013 20:39 I am ever so tempted to live-tweet the interview process from the hiring side in the next couple of days. Hear that? It's HR folks howwwlingjuanahang 1/1/2013 20:40 I know I shouldn't live-tweet interviews . . . but I want somehow to show the sham of it all. I'm just some doof, just like all the hirers!OccupyMLA 1/1/2013 20:42 If the Senate can do it, we can do it! Let's get to the table with admin and make good things happen for #adjuncts Join us! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 1/1/2013 23:01 RT @StrikeDebt: As we greet 2013, we have a long road ahead. But we have our friends, our families, and our comrades in debt resistance.OccupyMLA 1/1/2013 23:05 @readywriting noon on Friday. that doesnt conflict with any of the panels youre on, does it?OccupyMLA 1/1/2013 23:06 @VCVaileNFM yes, at least one of us should be there to live tweet #s270 #mla13OccupyMLA 1/1/2013 23:08 @GracieG @AdjunctHulk @NewFacMajority @VCVaileNFM thats awful! Follow the twitstream & make your voice heard on the hashtag #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 1/1/2013 23:09 @occupymla @GracieG @AdjunctHulk @NewFacMajority @VCVaileNFM have you contact @MLAconvention abt a refund? #mla13OccupyMLA 1/1/2013 23:37 @GracieG might be worth contacting them. @MLAconvention has stated a goal to help stand for those less fortunate, no? #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 1/2/2013 0:05 Updated #OMLA schedule for #MLA13 with added session by @teacheronradio, #s644 "Invisible Professors"OccupyMLA 1/2/2013 5:59 @chrisjudetaylor Correct! 1 penny in the badge is the sign of #OMLA support this year! #mla13OccupyMLA 1/2/2013 8:49 RT @AdjunctNation: What we're hoping in the New Year: To DOUBLE our Twitter followers. Give us a hand, huh? Recommend us to #adjunct fac ...OccupyMLA 1/2/2013 14:20 Adjuncts! <hug> the tenured & the TT and say, "I don't blame you; I blame the system that denies & uses me." #mla13OccupyMLA 1/2/2013 15:00 Reminder: the Occupy MLA guide to #mla13 is here: http://t.co/YSF5HOTt #omla http://occupymla.tumblr.com/scheduleOccupyMLA 1/2/2013 16:07 @jeffhort @kfitz @LibSkrat Our cause, of course, and our values and dreams for the profession! #mla13OccupyMLA 1/2/2013 18:30 If you stand for those with no standing, put a single penny in your #mla13 name badge! #omlaOccupyMLA 1/2/2013 21:32 @briancroxall do you prefer it? #mla13OccupyMLA 1/2/2013 22:15 RT @noeljackson: Does MLA pay adjuncts to serve as bouncers at #MLA13 #justwonderinOccupyMLA 1/2/2013 23:10 Wheels down in BOSton and ready to offer #mla13 a penny for its thoughts. How DO you rationalize the inequality of adjunct/TT? Join us #omlajuanahang 1/2/2013 23:11 BOS ton airport SO much swankier than when I flew in and out years ago. Still the same grumpball cabdriver culture, though. I'd miss thatjuanahang 1/2/2013 23:25 Cabbing in now . . . I'm eager to gauge the swank factor of my hotel digs. God bless Department Secretaries who can make late reservations!juanahang 1/2/2013 23:27 Asst. Chef or Asst. Prof? That is a really, really tough decision. But the choice makes me feel downright reckless brave about #omla !juanahang 1/2/2013 23:30 In fact, god bless Department Secretaries altogether. Let's remember how much they help all of us, and work so much more and harder than weOccupyMLA 1/2/2013 23:32 Remember: put a penny in your #mla13 badge to show solidarity with #omla and our question: In what exact way are adjncts unequal to TT?juanahang 1/2/2013 23:40 "Ironic" doesn't begin to cover my situation: free cab, free hotel room, free conference, good academic gig, after I'd given it all up.OccupyMLA 1/2/2013 23:43 @jeffhort We will be wearing nothing but a look of fierce intelligence and an insouciant smile. Be ready to pixellate us for broadcast.juanahang 1/2/2013 23:45 Don't hate me but When it rains it pours. Because of the menus I created for NewYears catering at the restau they want to promote mejuanahang 1/2/2013 23:50 I truly get to choose now, in some way, between Assistant Chef de Cuisine and Assistant Professeur de la Literature (Lits et ratures)ChangerCharles 1/3/2013 1:10 Wonder of Wonders! #miracleChangerCharles 1/3/2013 1:21 I have negotiated an opportunity to see my children through a stream of email correspondences with my wife. #miracleChangerCharles 1/3/2013 1:25 I do not want to elevate my hopes or to become caught up in the spell of sentimentality. However, the meeting seems likely.ChangerCharles 1/3/2013 1:31 The meeting will be this Saturday, the time & place & details need to be arranged. Yet she has consented that it WILL happen #miraclejuanahang 1/3/2013 1:35 @ChangerCharles Here's a hug for you my man. You'll be fine no matter how things break . . . but have my fingers X.ed for a #miracleChangerCharles 1/3/2013 1:40 It is all that I can do, I have summoned every ounce of resolve, not to break down weeping evry moment abt the possibility #miracleOccupyMLA 1/3/2013 1:45 All that was lost, can be regained. The fight is not in vain! #mla13 #omla Join us!ChangerCharles 1/3/2013 1:50 @juanahang I am shaking, quaking, fearing that the slightest move could trip a wire, bring the whole fragile framework down #domiraclesexistComphaze 1/3/2013 7:30 just afew glasses of a cheap Syrah tonight. Syrah and shirza re the same, I never new thatComphaze 1/3/2013 7:35 soooo o I think hteres a lesson from otday i dont want to miss. its no th that you should stay away from romances with the hiring comiteeComphaze 1/3/2013 7:40 its that if you have aromanc with someone on the hiring commit, meaek sure hes well liked by the other membrs - oh, or that you atleast haveComphaze 1/3/2013 7:40 a roamnze to begin wit!!@#Comphaze 1/3/2013 7:50 dont get infatuatedd wihth the profesoiriate =. Join us! #mla13 #omla itsnottworth itjuanahang 1/3/2013 7:52 @comphaze uh, you ok there Hazel? You don't sound too good.Comphaze 1/3/2013 7:55 yes iam a memer of Occupymal. MLA Joinusjuanahang 1/3/2013 8:07 @comphaze there you go. Welp, that's that.juanahang 1/3/2013 8:12 @comphaze Kinda like vomiting, eh? Makes you feel much better once you get that bile up and out!juanahang 1/3/2013 8:53 @CompHaze You're going to be okay. We're going to be okay. All of us. <hug> Just get some sleep!Comphaze 1/3/2013 13:20 ugh, sorry about those tweets last night.ChangerCharles 1/3/2013 13:25 This morning I received an email subject: RE Full-Time Lectureship. It had that cheap promise look of spam. #miracleComphaze 1/3/2013 13:31 time to come clean. i am a member of Occupy MLA aka #omla #mla13 join us.ChangerCharles 1/3/2013 13:31 Upon opening, I encountered words through tearfilled eyes, the job offer, the position, they are offering it to me! #miracleComphaze 1/3/2013 13:35 though i couldnt actually go to the convention, i have been and will continue to support adjunct rights through it. #omla #mla13ChangerCharles 1/3/2013 13:35 I accidentally deleted the message bc I was reading it on my phone, thumbs clumsy, had to undo the delete! #miracleChangerCharles 1/3/2013 13:41 I impulsively dialed my wife, not thinking, just hit buttons & when she picked up with an irritated "yes" I just sat there open mouthed.ChangerCharles 1/3/2013 13:46 And on the otherend, I could hear her saying, What? What? Hello? Charles? And still could not get my mouth to form any wordsComphaze 1/3/2013 13:46 thx to all those who supported me (albeit anonymously) last yr. it was a tough experience but your notes helpd. #mla13 #omlaChangerCharles 1/3/2013 13:50 And I hung up the phone, or she did, & now I am sharing it with all of you, who do not know me, cannot see me, did not suffer me as a spouseChangerCharles 1/3/2013 14:06 And most of all, you take your news one tweet at a time, celebrating what is good, leaving consequences and cost for later on in the feedOccupyMLA 1/3/2013 14:10 We are a family formed of tweets & our bond, no less real 4 the brevity of our exchanges, is reified by our follows. Join us! #mla13OccupyMLA 1/3/2013 15:05 Welcome to #MLA13! The #OMLA guide can be found here: http://t.co/YSF5HOTt http://occupymla.tumblr.com/scheduleOccupyMLA 1/3/2013 15:10 #s270 is the official gathering place for #omla supporters to rally. 1 of us will be there but will prolly have to keep anonymous. #mla13Comphaze 1/3/2013 16:32 of course ill go.juanahang 1/3/2013 19:03 I'm in a suite. At the hotel. There, I said it. And I thought my situation couldn't get more ironic. It's for the interviews, they say.juanahang 1/3/2013 19:04 I guess it wouldn't do to have applicants for a better job than mine risk seeing my underwear peeking out of my open suitcase.juanahang 1/3/2013 19:06 Because it's my first time in a suite I sat in each and every chair and couch-position before I went to sleep last night. Suanque, eh?juanahang 1/3/2013 19:07 But now the irony is on the other foot. I'm nervous as hell. My first interviewee is due in minutes. More nervous than when I'm interviewed!OccupyMLA 1/3/2013 19:11 Saw my first badge-penny in the elevator! Too stunned and shy to speak. It's an #omla family reunion! Join us! #mla13OccupyMLA 1/3/2013 19:14 What, exactly, are we occupying? A moment of your time A corner of your mind We give permission to see clearly and act kindly Join us! #omlajuanahang 1/3/2013 19:17 A knock at the door! Look at me in my suit being all official and everything. Here we goooooo!OccupyMLA 1/3/2013 20:58 RT @ssenier: #mla13 had forgotten what a (charming) freakshow we all makeOccupyMLA 1/3/2013 20:59 RT @emilyhegarty: Profession is not structured to reward or promote teaching #67 #mla13OccupyMLA 1/3/2013 21:03 @NewFacMajority too many sessions to keep track. Pls. Recommend additions!!! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 1/3/2013 21:04 RT @friede: @occupymla contemplating Starbucks run just to make change that hopefully includes a penny.OccupyMLA 1/3/2013 21:04 @friede or consider a better use for the latte $ and draw a penny on your badge! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 1/3/2013 21:09 @rcbatp see http://t.co/KtISFLwb #mla13 #omla for talking points. Who is the conservative media? http://occupymla.tumblr.comComphaze 1/3/2013 23:20 when i got there he was all apologies and thanks for seeing mes. #profdarcyComphaze 1/3/2013 23:26 lookd like he was WAY ahead of me on the drinking front. i promisd myself i wouldnt & im glad i didntOccupyMLA 1/3/2013 23:30 Contingent did I hear? Contingent? Contingent, my Royal Irish Ars Gratia Artis! Join us!Comphaze 1/3/2013 23:31 #profdarcy: hazel, i missd you, whats new? So I told him abt the HS job, that it could lead to something permanent.Comphaze 1/3/2013 23:36 Him: oh great good for you. [hes falling over himself with dodgedbullet fffew] Theres a lot of great work to be done in HS by good teachersComphaze 1/3/2013 23:40 Him: & you know, one of the candidates we?re intrviewing came from HS. [says her name] Me: yeah but really fuck you (didnt actlly say it)OccupyMLA 1/3/2013 23:43 RT @briancroxall: Landers: Most important work on NTT will happen at local level. The MLA can only create resources. Members put them to ...OccupyMLA 1/3/2013 23:44 RT @readywriting: We needs to reward good teaching, not just pay lip-service #mla13 #s112OccupyMLA 1/3/2013 23:44 RT @rogerwhitson: MT @readywriting: Most of the things that higher ed says makes money for the uni? Doesn't make $ at all (sports, resea ...Comphaze 1/3/2013 23:45 he mentiond who it was like it was a secret like it was a sign of us being intimate that he was revealing search cmte secrets but its all BSComphaze 1/3/2013 23:50 Me: Yes, actually, I know her &her husband -- taught with both of them yrs ago. Really amazing couple. But is SHE up for this job?Comphaze 1/3/2013 23:55 Me: I mean is she interviewing for my job, can she handle it? seems like youd want someone with experience, whod done it already [BS ahead]Comphaze 1/4/2013 0:01 but then i had 2 smile bc I rememberd where I had seen her name recently, it was the academic jobs wiki +Comphaze 1/4/2013 0:05 she had postd abt anothr job shed interviewd for & was planning to accept! Ha! Of course, I protected HER privacy & didnt say a wordComphaze 1/4/2013 0:10 #profdarcy has this way of staring at you, rt through you, as tho thats enough of an answer to a question, but i deflectd by coughing, alotComphaze 1/4/2013 0:10 i walkd away from #profdarcy & thought to myself i dont care if i evr come back to teach college again or evr have to see himComphaze 1/4/2013 0:16 its been a long string of people & profs leading me on & i nevr once had a moment where I cld be happy where i wasComphaze 1/4/2013 0:20 so HS, you are not a compromise, not settling, im trying you out, & if I enjoy my time w you, ill stick around, no promisesOccupyMLA 1/4/2013 0:25 No more promises! Stop dangling tenure! Put up or shut up! We have MANY options. We are #OMLA! Join us! #MLA13Comphaze 1/4/2013 0:26 No more promises! Stop dangling tenure! Put up or shut up! We have MANY options. We are #OMLA! Join us! #MLA13OccupyMLA 1/4/2013 4:39 RT @sshingavi: thinking happy thoughts for all of my friends at the MLA: when in doubt @occupymla #occupyMLAOccupyMLA 1/4/2013 14:53 Yes. Join us! "@aabeaton: Oh man, remember @OccupyMLA? #mla13"OccupyMLA 1/4/2013 14:56 Remember #s270 is the official #omla #mla13 session. See also the guide http://t.co/YSF5HOTt http://occupymla.tumblr.com/scheduleComphaze 1/4/2013 15:04 Join us! #omla #mla13OccupyMLA 1/4/2013 15:06 RT @VCVaileNFM: @occupymla besides #270 + #112 #354 #438 #794?ez search #mla13 online program 4 #adjunct #contingent #NonTenureTrack?no ...OccupyMLA 1/4/2013 17:04 Here in sesh #s270 Yay. We have been joined! Huge room. #mla13 #omla Exciting.ChangerCharles 1/4/2013 17:06 I have emailed my decision to the university. #mla13OccupyMLA 1/4/2013 17:06 Storytelling session in #270 about to begin. Occupying our minds. #mla13 #omla

juanahang 1/4/2013 17:06 Sitting here in session 270 looking around trying to identify #omla folk. Exciting.OccupyMLA 1/4/2013 17:08 #altac Meister @braincroxall leading off session #270 #mla13 great to hear his voice (sharp, cogent) after reading his sharp, cogent writingOccupyMLA 1/4/2013 17:10 @briancroxall session #270 Yay, http://t.co/i4EB88zs ! @mlajobs http://mlajobs.tumblr.comChangerCharles 1/4/2013 17:11 The opportunity to teach the literature I love is too great a draw to ever pass up. A dream I have long since given up. #mla13OccupyMLA 1/4/2013 17:12 @briancroxall 's stick drawings cracking 'em up #mla13 #omla session #270OccupyMLA 1/4/2013 17:14 @briancroxall Fun presentation. Howevvah . . . all the altacs and non-TT I know do fully as much rsch as TT folks, night, morn, weekendsChangerCharles 1/4/2013 17:16 But reuniting with my family, the opportunity to be a part of my boys' lives, the gossamer hope of healing my family #mla13juanahang 1/4/2013 17:17 I rarely tweet from the audience (kinda ethically opposed) so hoping I don't look too nerdly hunched over my fone #omlaOccupyMLA 1/4/2013 17:19 Session #270 #mla13 Yes, altac jobs demand budgeting and different skills. My work in a restau kitchen has broadened my mind 'normouslyChangerCharles 1/4/2013 17:25 Is a dream to precious for me ever to release.OccupyMLA 1/4/2013 17:27 @wynkenhimself Wonderful essay/story on altac jobs "not by luck" #mla13 #omla Yay, career agility. Yay, open, balanced attitude. Yay, humor.ChangerCharles 1/4/2013 17:31 I will stay where I am and let this golden opportunity set in the East, and stare at the horizon for my family to arise in the West. #mla13OccupyMLA 1/4/2013 17:33 #mla13 #s270 Plucky resourcefulness on the grassroots side of altac still does not compensate nor excuse institutionalized abuse. Just sayinOccupyMLA 1/4/2013 17:37 #mla13 #s270 Skills *within* teaching positions need to be transferable as well. e.g. electronic literature c.f. Addison & Steele's agilityOccupyMLA 1/4/2013 17:39 @briancroxall What price is paid when altacs want to move back into teaching? Is it "lost time?"ChangerCharles 1/4/2013 17:40 Chr?tien: Erec l?aimait d?un si grand amour que les armes le laissaient indiff?rent, et qu?il ne participait plus aux tournois. #mla13OccupyMLA 1/4/2013 17:45 RT @readywriting: Need to speak out that altac's like their jobs and are proud of their jobs #mla13 #s270OccupyMLA 1/4/2013 17:50 @briancroxall #s270 #mla13 There should be a resource for altacs to share abt the research/creative work they do in the margins. So many do.ChangerCharles 1/4/2013 17:51 Time to set aside tourneys, time to lay to rest old grievances, time to pursue the first folio of my heart and let sentimentality reign.OccupyMLA 1/4/2013 17:59 RT @briancroxall: @occupymla There's this section of the #altac project: http://t.co/QEnyY1YY #s270 #mla13 http://bit.ly/ULkjipjuanahang 1/4/2013 18:04 My academic mothership just contacted me. Have to do an unscheduled interview. May have to bail on this session soon. Darn!OccupyMLA 1/4/2013 18:07 The weird ironies continue. I have to scamper to conduct an unscheduled interview with candidate. Will look for transferable skills, I guessjuanahang 1/4/2013 18:25 @ChangerCharles @CompHaze Had to dash back to my suite before session s270 finished wish you could be here to feel the #omla luvjuanahang 1/4/2013 21:19 RT @Jessifer: What motivates who we do & don't follow in social media? How are traditional power relations reconstituted in digital ...OccupyMLA 1/4/2013 21:23 What, exactly, are we occupying? A moment of your time A corner of your mind We give permission to see clearly and act kindly Join us! #omlaOccupyMLA 1/4/2013 21:24 Remember: put a penny in your #mla13 badge to show solidarity with #omla and our question: In what precise way are adjncts unequal to TT?OccupyMLA 1/4/2013 21:25 RT @IHEhumanities: Lee Bessette on contingent faculty working conditions and impact on student learning http://t.co/3INp6FSt #MLA13 #adjunct http://bit.ly/XqXT9wOccupyMLA 1/4/2013 21:27 If you can't fathom what could possibly merit the unequal treatment of #adjunct and TT, Join us! #omla #mla13OccupyMLA 1/4/2013 21:28 If you believe adjunct/contingent time served should be counted officially in the plus column on TT searches, Join us! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 1/4/2013 21:29 If you stand against age discrimination, and "outside of hackademe" job experience discrimination, Join us! #mla13 #omlaOccupyMLA 1/4/2013 21:30 If you support a Strike Debt project to aid contingent/NTT/ #adjunct faculty, Join us!OccupyMLA 1/4/2013 21:34 If you want to prevent shabby treatment & raw workloads of those who teach online, Join us! #mla13 #omla Hug an adjunct We r the 1,998 linesOccupyMLA 1/4/2013 21:59 Heading out for drinks. Join us! #mla13 #omlaComphaze 1/4/2013 22:00 Wish I were there, @occupymla! Wasnt in the cards.OccupyMLA 1/5/2013 1:22 Major announcement forthcoming. #mla13 #omla Though maybe not through us.OccupyMLA 1/5/2013 1:23 RT @rcbatp: #mla13 #MLA_adjunct_action @occupymla -- transparent strategic planning here -- together -- go :)OccupyMLA 1/5/2013 2:24 Join us!juanahang 1/5/2013 3:45 Exhausting couple of days. Feeling kinda unearthly and unreal. Where's #mla13 's coolest bar?!OccupyMLA 1/5/2013 5:00 @rogerwhitson @markcmarino sorry, I'm with twitterholic @samplereality. What do you expect?OccupyMLA 1/5/2013 13:16 @S_Insley_H are you referring to just the main @occupymla accnt or @CompHaze's as well? Not sure hers wld change ur mind.OccupyMLA 1/8/2013 16:00 @JenHoward @amandafrench Ah-ha.OccupyMLA 1/14/2013 14:43 New article in ProfHacker: reflections on Occupy MLA http://t.co/ZlkC4obV #omla #mla13 #mla12 http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/occupying-mla/45357?viewMobile=0