Caryn Riswold
- Starting a semester with three seminar classes full of energetic undergraduates.
- Including fifteen first-year students adjusting to college.
- With nineteen students learning about women’s studies via things like the Defined Lines feminist parody. (It’s a #sexcrime …)
- The numbers on these lists are arbitrary and meaningless.
- Coordinating three local agencies hosting said first-year students doing service-learning.
- My own related volunteer service at another local agency.
- Leading eleven students through the history of the Catholic Church’s arguments against ordaining women.
- Writing a list is lazier than constructing an argument or telling a story.
- Grading fifteen first-college-assignment writing assignments.
- Dining with said first-year students at the home of our new college president. (Pictured above!)
- Booking travel and lodging for four upcoming professional trips.
- Observing several colleagues’ teaching for purposes of formation and review.
- Writing lengthy detailed letters about said colleagues for institutional review processes. (Maybe I should write them in list form! No!!)
- Choosing to read an article based on the number of things in the list is even lazier than writing it in the first place.
- Drafting two conference papers for presentations later in the fall.
- Expanding a prospectus for a book chapter on vocation and undergraduate education.
- Writing an article on what justice for women means when the category of “woman” is contested.
- Some sites use those list articles to simply generate more page views.
- Faculty meetings, departmental conferences, and academic year opening ritual procession and events.
- A home computer with performance issues that is seeking help from local tech experts.
- Apparently, they’re called listicles.
- Stay tuned, dear readers. More is on the way. And not in list form.
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