Updating a CV is terribly boring and time-consuming. I already wasted precious afternoon hours, which I usually keep for writing a dissertation chapter, by excavating old files and folders (physical and electronic, stored in a local laptop…

Need Your Help! I have severe pain around the back of the neck these three days. I'm okay for half a day. But after five or six hours of reading and writing, the neck begins to pain, so painful that sometimes I couldn't even sit or stand u…

Perhaps this happens to everyone of us who's writing a dissertation, but doesn't it make you somewhat mentally unstable to sit for a quarter of a day, copying texts you're hoping to comment on, typing and deleting, drinking cups of coffee,…

Every 15 to 20 mins afternoon nap I take these solitary months results in terror. An alarm rings, I stop it, and intense sensations assail me; it's like an interrupted sleep condenses and compresses the whole dream content in a few seconds…

"...texts are designed to "speak" to us, and so, provided we know how to listen, they always end up telling us something; but archives are not messages that were meant to address us, and so they say absolutely nothing until one asks the ri…

This is probably the third time that a lady, that middle-aged white lady, gave me a brochure, the same brochure I believe, which reads "TOMORROW May Be Too Late!" It says that tomorrow is too late, because you may die today and therefore n…

"And precisely because the so-called utopian possibilities are not at all utopian but rather the determinate socio-historical negation of what exists, a very real and very pragmatic opposition is required of us if we are to make ourselves …

To which extent do we imitate our parents' writing style? Reading my father's blog, I was struck to find that my tone and diction was exactly his. Yes, we worked together for more than half a decade. I translated, he edited my drafts, and …