Goodbye already

A nightmare this.

I have to say goodbye just as soon as I've got this blog going. You will see the reason if you scroll down the entries to Weekending.

All day and every day my mental energy is going into my blog. I didn't know it would be such heaven being a blogger. Better than writing a commonplace book (a thing I have been doing for decades and decades), but not that different.

However, I get paid to write academical books and articles, the damned stupid things. As if we haven't got enough books and articles. Can't we have a moratorium on new ones till we've read some of the old ones? The average academic article gets read by 5 people only.

Yet, our lumpen, ignorant government (yes, they govern us) awards university funding according to our "research output", and I can't let my colleagues in the department down in the ridiculous, asinine, excremental RAE (Research Assessment Exercise).

Goodbye, darling blog. I have to harden my heart to you until I have got that elusive "fourth item" in print for this moronic government. I have till the end of 2007.

Don't even ask what happens to the refusniks. They get flushed into the scummy sub-gutters of the university system. And even doing my lovely blogging wouldn't be fun from down there.

Next year in cyberspace. xxx

I don't get bullied. I am in a lovely department; but here is a link for those who don't know all this already:

http://bulliedacademics.blogspot.com/2007/01/high-stress-levels-in-colleges-and.html#links