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	<description>hitting the academic big time</description>
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		<title>Up Next: Aliens.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, Noel and I received these slips in our fortune cookies: The software developer, of course, was affirmed with the declaration that his financial future was secure. Me? Facing a new semester with a new batch of freshmen and the always combustible departmental politics, I am told: &#8220;An alien of some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Superbia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got my diploma from WashU in the mail a few days ago. I had sort of forgotten that I had actually finished a degree program and now possessed some useless letters that could but probably never will follow my name. It&#8217;s a fancier diploma than I expected, all engraving-on-silk-inset-in-leather-folio. This is all well and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resting, Resting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things I am not doing this summer include: taking a language class, writing a chapter, and spending inordinate amounts of time in the library. Things I am doing this summer include: helping plan two weddings and execute four, watering my garden, remembering why I love contemporary art, traveling, assembling friends&#8217; Ikea dresser, getting a piercing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pow. Pau.</title>
		<link>http://www.elissa.weichbrodt.org/2008/04/13/pow-pau/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few trees later, my thesis has bee submitted to my committee. I am defending this week Wednesday at 12:30. Shortly, I will be nervous about my defense, anxious about talking to three really excellent professors about this half book that I just wrote. But right now, I am triumphant.]]></description>
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		<title>An Eva Hesse Kind of Week</title>
		<link>http://www.elissa.weichbrodt.org/2008/03/11/an-eva-hesse-kind-of-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is telling of my weakness that brief, punchy criticism directed towards my abilities in a none-too-important quadrant of my life can swiftly debilitate me. The specifics of the criticism were really immaterial; all I took away was a panicking sense of self-doubt, a questioning of my calling, and the impulse to cry any time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An All-Over Hue</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Paul Morton ranks among my favorite professors at Covenant. Besides being a tremendous history teacher, speaking in eminently quotable phrases, and dealing with college politics exclusively through the lens of sarcasm, Dr. Morton also had a remarkably specific code of dress. On the days when he wasn&#8217;t wearing a sweater vest, he would stride [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Writing on the Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday night I saw the writing on the wall&#8230; and it was mine. It is a strange sensation to walk into a museum &#8212; a real museum, not Covenant&#8217;s Art Barn &#8212; and see one&#8217;s own words plastered on the wall. It is even stranger to see well-appointed museum donors, art history department professors, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Thesis in Pieces</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Huzzah! I am 58 pages closer to a graduate degree in Contemporary Art and Theory. Four days ago, my dining room floor looked like this: When I taught writing at Cov, I would occasionally frighten hapless students by whipping out a pair of scissors and announcing that we were going to cut up their essays. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PSA: The Names of Old Masters Are Not Interchangeable</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 04:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Blogging between rounds of grading has proved difficult. My thesis research is consuming, and as I struggle to put thoughts into sentences coherent by academic standards, I have little desire to re-translate into summary or self-critical form for my reading public. But, lucky for you, faithful, returning reader of this blog&#8230;the second exam is in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Salt of Grading</title>
		<link>http://www.elissa.weichbrodt.org/2007/10/16/the-salt-of-grading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As previously mentioned, I currently TAing for Intro to Western Art. The first quiz has come and gone, leaving a trail of special moments in its wake. In anticipation of the students submitting their midterm essays on Thursday, I look back, fondly, at what I learned during the initial round of grading: Best first sentences: [...]]]></description>
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