I've been in the faculty, staff and the hybrid position as a librarian. (Now, I am considered administration, which is basically high-ranking staff, and I'm fine with that - I don't need to go through tenure/peer review or publish or perish at this point in my career, thankyouverymuch.) They all have pros/cons, but it is very much university-dependent.
o-a, how much wiggle room they will have will depend not only on the department, but also on the union contract, etc. You have the most power while you are negotiating. After you take the job, you may have to stay in lockstep (advancement, review, pay, other working conditions) with your colleagues.
Hil, your advisor is insane. We should have a count down clock to when you'll never have to deal with him again.
Hil, sorry about the pain. FYI, the Brookville in Cleveland Park delivers - don't know if they'd come to your neighborhood, but they usually have nice produce. They're small, so the selection isn't as good as some places, but I've seen the manager going through the store on the phone with someone picking up stuff and putting it in a cart.
Teppy, my dad is an and teaches OT, and uses Felden...however you spell it in class, as well as theraputically.
my acting teacher, Kristin Linklater, based some of her techniques on Feldenkrais methodology, for whatever that's worth.
Linklater is a big believer in developing the physicality of the acting process.
Oooh. You got to study with Linklater? Sweet.
Steph, I had a few sessions with a Feldenkrais specialist about my hip pain. She could watch me walk, have me lie down, reposition my body gently, and when I got back up my walk was totally different. I couldn't afford to keep seeing her, unfortunately, but I still use some of what she taught me about how I walk.
Hil, I hope today is better for you.
Yeah, she taught at Emerson while I was there- I had her for at least 2 semesters and was under her coaching during our mainstage production of The Birds.
She was AWESOME.
He also told me to stop leaving "angry notes" on his door. I have, twice (I think), left a post-it on his office door saying something like, "Can you please let me know when you can meet with me this week?" It was generally when he hadn't responded to an email for over a week, and I figured that having something that he'd see immediately might work better than an email. (And it did -- he responded to both those notes right away.) I was definitely angry when I wrote them, but I was very careful to make sure the notes themselves were polite.
"O my Advisor and O the delight of my academic career, may you live forever! When will it be your pleasure to allow this abject, humble petitioner to bring her most unworthy queries regarding her lowly thesis to your exalted attention, so that she may bring it a tiny step closer to completion, generally bask in the glory of your wisdom, and properly add to your reputation as a most learned and puissant professor?" probably wouldn't go over quite as well as one might hope, either.
