I have a confession to make: In my real life, I'm a graduate student, just about to defend my dissertation plan and go into the long final year of collecting data, testing it, and writing about the results in a big, long book-length piece of work (and then, the job search, which is scary as hell right now in this economy when education and teaching and research are all being increasingly devalued - but that's another blog). In a word, I'm becoming a professional academic. As a result, my life...

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