Happy Birthday, Lysana!
Sorry, Captain. I'm real sorry. I shoulda kept better care of her. Usually she lets me know when something's wrong. Maybe she did, I just wasn't paying attention...
Kaylee ,'Out Of Gas'
Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Fred Pete - Feb 23, 2006 3:33:38 am PST #8873 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
DXMachina - Feb 23, 2006 3:43:34 am PST #8874 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Happy Birthday, Lysana!
Jesse - Feb 23, 2006 3:49:12 am PST #8875 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Good luck, Kalshane.
Ugh, ita -- job tension is seriously the last thing you need.
I am semi-prepared for the informational-interview-by-phone I'm about to have. I hate phone interviews!
§ ita § - Feb 23, 2006 4:04:02 am PST #8876 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'd totally do your interview, Jesse. I oddly like them.
Why would this guy want his job back? I mean, aside from the difficulty he's going to have getting employ anywhere else. Talk about a hostile work environment.
DXMachina - Feb 23, 2006 4:13:24 am PST #8877 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Why would this guy want his job back?
More to the point, why would the faculty association, whose members he trashed, want to help him keep it?
Jesse - Feb 23, 2006 4:19:23 am PST #8878 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So, that was slightly weird. I don't know how to do informational interviews, I think. Anyway, I made the contact, so that can't hurt.
Nora Deirdre - Feb 23, 2006 4:20:36 am PST #8879 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
More to the point, why would the faculty association, whose members he trashed, want to help him keep it?
Academia is a funny place. I wonder if the faculty association is/was trying to keep him in that job in order to discourage termination for cause, which would erode rights of tenure? It can be a slippery slope (from their point of view) t /simplistic
Note: I am not a member of the professorate, I merely study it in school.
vw bug - Feb 23, 2006 4:26:26 am PST #8880 of 10002
Mostly lurking...
Nilly, backflung.
Happy Birthday, Lysana!
Frankenbuddha - Feb 23, 2006 4:26:43 am PST #8881 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Ugh, I spent all day yesterday thinking it was Friday. Same thing today. This is NOT. GOOD.
Timelies. Surprisingly no gronklies, but my internal calendar is on the fritz apparently.
DXMachina - Feb 23, 2006 4:28:10 am PST #8882 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I wonder if the faculty association is/was trying to keep him in that job in order to discourage termination for cause, which would erode rights of tenure?
Yeah, I suspect that's it, but in this case, protecting the right of one of their members to sabotage their other members seems silly.