Feeding the soul

I'm sitting in my cubicle this morning getting ready for the 2nd bout of microteaching. Since the School of Information (used to be Library and Information Science) teaches a core undergraduate education course (children's lit) and pays for the professors the Education Dept have GRACIOUSLY allowed the TA (me) to have one of 115 herman miller cubicles in this vast (mostly empty) room on the education wing. It really is lovely and quiet a lot of the time.

Recently they have informed our Dean that I need to vacate by the end of August. I'm pretty sure they just don't want to share their space anymore and that it has nothing to do with my behavior....pretty sure.....
And so i am mourning the soon-to-be loss of a nice space where I can store all my crap.

In a somewhat nostalgic state, I got to looking at the quotes tacked up on my bulletin board. They are a few of the things that have struck me and so I stuck them.

Censorship causes blindness READ! -- American Library
Association bookmark (printed like an eye-chart with READ! really big at the bottom)

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. --Eleanor Roosevelt. bumper sticker with her sweet face on it. http://www.peaceproject.com/stickers/genstickers.htm

Keep the faith Baby! (and)
Ann- Feed your Soul! You can't do this on your own. -- two handwritten notes from my friend Bob. He gave them to me in FL when my job was so bad.

She is too fond of books and it has turned her brain. -- postcard with wistfull girl looking off to the left. http://www.stellamarrs.com/catalog/detail.php?product_id=223&type=category&cat=5&offset=0

a handpainted rainbow from my son (then 2 1/2)

"If we don't beleive in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all" - Noam Chomsky
"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeate us." - William O. Douglas (both on an ALA bookmark)

"Not rich enough for a tax break" - political button

hegemonic = predominant influence -- my own handwritten note so I would remember what the hell it meant.

"So committed are some survey researchers to the principle of consistency that they often assume that inconsistent responses undermine the "validity" of respondents' replies. But how can people respond consistently in a complex social order that is itself rent by contradictory expectations?" -- Sjoberg, William, Vaughn & Sjoberg, 1991 I copied this out of a paper for my SOC class. Apparently it spoke to me...perhaps in the context of the quantitative vs qualitative scuffles that go on here.

A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men. - Roald Dahl
a quote from my Zen a Day calendar from 2 years ago. The only one worth keeping. Boy was that a bad calendar choice.

What do these say about me?
I think they reflect some of my passions, some of my political leanings, some of my sentimentality. I'll try not to pack up the concepts when I pack up the scraps of paper for the move.