So I am reading You Can't Fight City Hall, but You Can See How Much Everyone There Makes - New York Times and I am getting all mad and jealous because a blog that is not this one broke the story of the NYC employees' pay scale published in the Civil List.
Then, as I read more, I am getting more incensed. The aticle reads like many New York Times articles of late : It mentions obliquely (if at all) the blog from whence the idea for the article (or the whole article) came from and then in Grey Lady fashion, it goes on NOT to link to the people that basically are making it possible for the journaleech to get a paycheck.
The blog in question is Backroom Deal Breaker. The original artcile is at Backroom Deal Breaker: Let Your Fingers Do the Talking! It is a good blog, go check it out.
Well, so I now go to the list and download it. To give it a whirl, I decide to look for all and any employees with the last name Sabater. Well what do you know? Yours truly is on the list (at the bottom):
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WOW! I am almost at $100 /hr? So this means I can go back to CUNY to teach? Awesome.
For those of you who do not know, mamacita used to be an adjunct instructor of Spanish language and literature at CUNY. I taught in the system for a few years while working on a PhD in Latin American Literature at New York University. Mamacita though enjoyed exploring the web and working as a net art producer more than teaching the difference between ser y estar or writing articles about the neobaroque aesthetics in the work of contemporary Latin American writers like Reinaldo Arenas. So I packed the few belongings I still had at 19 University, took the ABD (or MPhil or whatever they call it these days) and gave up writing a thesis along with almost 10 years of teaching for having a baby and exploring the world wide web.
Yes, mamacita is a nerda who became the blogdiva she is today.
As an aside though, I miss teaching horribly. I would love to go back to it but not as a Spanish instructor. Hire me for a citizen journalism class, an online communications strategies and technologies lecturer or a real-life philosopher exploring the neobaroque aesthetics of online creative work and you've got yourself a deal ... for $87.62 an hour.
