<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>warmed-over soapboxes</title>
	<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox</link>
	<description>clever would be nice</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:20:11 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	<!-- generator="WordPress/3.2.1" -->

	<item>
		<title>Ugh, with a twist: Teaching, racism, and adjuncting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ugh. Ugh, ugh, ugh. Apparently the &#8220;white people pride&#8221; discussion did NOT go well, because now I have a student who wants to write about National Socialism and how racism &#8220;isn&#8217;t necessarily a bad thing,&#8221; that the preservation of the white race is &#8220;just like&#8221; the preservation of a rare species of songbird. Oh, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2012/04/ugh-with-a-twist-teaching-racism-and-adjuncting/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>On &#8220;white people pride&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight in my penitentiary class we were talking about audience. I stumbled verbally trying to decide whether to call readers of the magazine Ebony &#8220;black&#8221; or &#8220;African-American.&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s okay, you can say it,&#8221; one of the white students said. There&#8217;s no hiding in this class. &#8220;Well, what do you prefer?&#8221; I asked the black student [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2012/03/on-white-people-pride/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Meditations on race and music taste</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Student: Well, I like rap, but I don&#8217;t know how to write a research paper about rap. Me: You know, I once had a student write a really good paper about Tupac and&#8230; Student: It&#8217;s &#8220;too-pock.&#8221; Me: Not &#8220;two-pack&#8221;? Like&#8230;six-pack? Student: No. Me: Oh. Sorry, I&#8217;m just really white. Student: That&#8217;s okay. Me: &#8230;Anyway, you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2012/03/meditations-on-race-and-music/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>On why it is so hard to change the world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I seriously toyed with the idea of updating my Facebook timeline to reflect today as The Day I Lost All Faith in Humanity. Here&#8217;s why. Generally, I like to think that though I have little power and agency, I can do small things to make the world a little better. I can introduce students to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2012/03/on-why-it-is-so-hard-to-change-the-world/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Potential course in rhetoric of politics and argumentation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally a writing assignment comes to me and it is SO GREAT OMG I LOVE IT and then I wonder how, exactly, I&#8217;m going to justify it in an ENGLISH class. Especially when my lighting bolt is about politics, and I do not teach political science, or American studies, or anything of that ilk. But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2012/02/potential-course-in-rhetoric-of-politics-and-argumentation/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Facebook discussion, redux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You guys, I&#8217;m going to post something really controversial, okay? But I don&#8217;t want anyone to disagree with me. This isn&#8217;t up for debate. This is just how I feel, okay? And I&#8217;m just saying it because that&#8217;s how I feel. And I don&#8217;t want a discussion, which is why I&#8217;m putting it out in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2012/02/facebook-discussion-redux/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>2011-2012 Broncos prediction update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So here&#8217;s what I predicted back whenever. And here&#8217;s what actually happened. Oakland at Denver: predicted Denver. Wrong. Cincinnati at Denver: Predicted Cincinnati. Wrong. @Tennessee: Predicted Denver. Wrong. @Green Bay: Predicted Green Bay. Correct. San Diego at Denver: Predicted San Diego. Correct. Bye @Miami: Predicted Denver win. Correct. Detroit: Predicted Denver win. Wrong. @Oakland: Predicted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2012/01/2011-2012-broncos-prediction-update/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>On being perpetually 15 minutes late</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ugh. Long story short, we are in Honolulu. We&#8217;re supposed to be in Maui, but owing to a fog delay, we missed our connection (by fifteen minutes), made what seemed like a lucky standby coincidental connection to Honolulu but have not yet managed, in spite of a billion phone calls and customer service reps and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2011/11/on-being-perpetually-15-minutes-late/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>On NaBloPoMo failure and canine conception</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ugh. Internets, I suck. Besides missing the very first day of NaBloPoMo, I missed another. And now, another. It&#8217;s like a metaphor, for my life. But like a smoker, I can start to quit anew every day&#8230;hmm, wait. Anyway. Today, November 19, 2011, is the day we attempted to get my poor dog knocked up. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2011/11/on-nablopomo-failure-and-canine-conception/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>On tonight&#8217;s Broncos game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow. I mean, WOW. Slow start, wild finish. I hate Tebow&#8217;s arm, hate the fact that he&#8217;s being lauded for winning a game when he CAN&#8217;T THROW THE DAMN BALL, but I love his legs and I love Broncos wins, and I love seeing Rex Ryan look like he&#8217;s trying to shit a turtle.]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2011/11/on-tonights-broncos-game/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>On going back to work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Childcare crisis averted; we&#8217;ve found a daycare. This means I return to the workforce in January. Not that I&#8217;m not in it now, but my few hours of freelance writing aren&#8217;t exactly raking in the big bucks (nor, as it turns out, are my unpaid hours of editing for friends and family). However, if the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2011/11/on-going-back-to-work/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>On sorting things out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Day 2 of The Husband Is Being More Productive Than Me, and his cleaning and organizing the storage room can only mean one thing: he&#8217;s avoiding something. What that is, I couldn&#8217;t say. But why else would he spend all evening sorting through boxes and asking me what I want done with old magazines, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2011/11/on-sorting/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>On layabouting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You  know what the worst thing is about one&#8217;s husband being productive all day? He raked most of the leaves the tree shat on the lawn and spent the entire evening sorting through and filing away old papers, looking, vainly, for Boy Genius&#8217;s birth certificate. So what&#8217;s bad, you ask, about a productive husband? HE&#8217;S [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2011/11/on-layabouting/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>To quote Rick Perry, &#8220;Oops&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I missed a day of NaBloPoMo. I blame The Child Who Will Not Go the Fuck to Sleep.]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2011/11/to-quote-rick-perry-oops/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>In which my liberal card is revoked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I believe that everyone with income should pay federal income tax. This is a pretty unpopular opinion in liberal circles, and a wildly popular opinion in conservative ones, so I will explain, so as to make both camps unhappy with me. (Ah, well.) According to the Tax Policy Center, there are 151 million tax units [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2011/11/liberal-card/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>On leaving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think this is not in the spirit of NaBloPoMo, but I&#8217;m off to the Wallowas this evening and nearly forgot to post before I left. As for the timing of my departure, well, who doesn&#8217;t live driving windy, forested, possibly snowy roads in the dark with a screaming toddler?]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2011/11/on-leaving/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>On nothing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NaBloPoMo, Day 7 I have almost nothing to say. It&#8217;s election day, one best spent in bed on a deserted island with a book and no internet. Unfortunately that is not how I spent it, and now I&#8217;m medicating with Haggen-Dazs and will resume Game of Thrones, the book, shortly.]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2011/11/on-nothing/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>On time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have spent nearly all day trying to finish one of my articles so my editor won&#8217;t regret hiring me, but a certain Boy Genius is making it difficult. First, and in spite of our patient explanations, he didn&#8217;t care for the time change and awoke at 5:20. Then he decided two short naps wasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2011/11/on-time/</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>

