Rallying from the kitchen table
Today is the perfect day to take a drive down to San Francisco: the sky is blue, the air is crisp, and a tiny bit of snow (the first in 30 years) dusted the City this morning. But while my friends and colleagues rally today in San Francisco (and across the country) for our fellow workers in Wisconsin, I am at home, working. I would rather be in San Francisco — I am an activist and protestor at heart — but my work, as it so often does, has crept into my weekend. And so this is what I will be doing today as I rally from my kitchen table:
1. Grading papers. No, I don’t mean the “right/wrong,” “true/false,” “noun/verb” kind of correcting. Instead of “grading papers,” I really should say “responding to papers,” but most people wouldn’t know what that means. I