7/9/2020
Amateur Hour: A Prologue
“I’ve already gone through all of my fierce objections with her, and she’s resisted them.”
7/9/2020
Grad School Gothic
“There is always darkness, there is always the threat of falling through a trap door or finding one’s self in a lower level.”
7/16/2020
Invalidation and the Education of Emily St. Aubert
“He was responding with intense anger, as if I had done something to provoke his anger? As if I was responsible for his anger? And all I did was submit a document that I was supposed to submit.”
7/30/2020
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Lift Master (part two)
“Was the paper I turned in good? No. It was not good. It was an unholy Frankenstein monster of different methodologies that I had sewn together in like the dark of the night because I was trying to do both the thing that I wanted to do and the thing that I suspected that she wanted me to do.”
8/6/2020
On the Edge of a Moral Volcano
“My heart rate is escalating because we’re getting close to the classroom where my students abused me last Wednesday.”
8/27/2020
Epilogue: The Defense
“I think I felt the need to... semi-self-destructively set off a bomb. So that there was no turning back.”