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.
I don't give a good gorram about relevant, Wash. Or objective. And I ain't so afraid of losing something that I ain't gonna try to have it. You and I would make one beautiful baby. And I want to meet that child one day. Period.
Zoe ,'Heart Of Gold'
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.
Jesse - Feb 23, 2006 4:19:23 am PST #8878 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
Nora Deirdre - Feb 23, 2006 4:30:43 am PST #8883 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
oh, I won't argue the silliness.
sumi - Feb 23, 2006 4:31:41 am PST #8884 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
PR: I thought that Guadalupe was giving some pre-planned message to a friend -- i.e., she was going to say that no matter what she was asked. (She is very very odd.) I wanted more of what the eliminated ones were up to. I loved the musical!
Jesse - Feb 23, 2006 4:44:51 am PST #8885 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Good news, Jen! I was just thinking about you last night. Take care of yourself.
§ ita § - Feb 23, 2006 4:46:21 am PST #8886 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Excellent, Jen! Take it easy, eh?
Theodosia - Feb 23, 2006 4:52:36 am PST #8887 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Yay, Jen!
Thinking it's Friday on a Wednesday is Bad, but thinking it's Friday on a Wednesday when you had a Monday holiday is Double-Plus Ungood.