everyday stuff – Page 3 – Stories from A Closet of Errors

One of my Gaultier shirts has found a new home in New York. I guess it will be living where it’s supposed to. I all be going in two weeks. Not staying, though.

I do not appreciate normal life

I guess this says everything. I am not mastering the heart of becoming. Or that of understanding the context.

“back in the heart of normal life”

I work in higher education. I have worked in an university ever since I’ve graduated and I still believe it’s a special place. Not in the sense of the elitist ivory tower but as an institution with a special mission and a civic, therefore, inclusive role.

Today I am attending a public conference on the diagnosis of the Portuguese research and innovation system: a SWOT analysis on the path to 2020. No new and foreign sounding concepts and ideas, and yet I feel like the Emma Bovary of higher education. Staring reality in disbelief and clinging somewhat desperately to my own romantic ideas of the University.