SA wins at life! And ponies.

Score! ::takes her pony::

Well, she is the person who doesn't like bacon too, right?

::moans:: bacon! omg. I haven't had a real breakfast since I was at home two weekends ago. I am dreaming now of bacon, and eggs, and hash brows, and biscuits and gravy. Sigh.

Bacon, if you are going to fold up shrift and pack her, you probably are going to want some bacon to placate her after unpacking.

Thanks for the support, guys.

Will you likely know more about the restructuring plans after?

Well, either that or the fact that I have no place in them or the company, I'm guessing.

This compounded with other annoyances/stress this week and I felt it necessary to self-medicate with blueberry pancakes and bacon this morning. I feel mildly better. It's going to be a long wait until 3pm, though.

Speaking of annoyances, I need to remember to call ComEd tonight and tell them I seem to have lost my bill for this month.

Yay, Jen.

Um, ma'am? Are you aware your luggage is snarling?

Okay, traffic map checked, flight schedule checked. I am off.

Thanks for the packing help. I will send the TSA to you guys when they want to know why I have bacon in my suitcase.

I will send the TSA to you guys when they want to know why I have bacon in my suitcase.

"Because it's bacon" isn't a valid reason?

Ah man, that sounds really stressful Kalshane. I hope things go as well as they can.

If that Canadian professor had tenure at a U.S. university there is no way that he would have been fired over that stuff. The idea of tenure is that academia is the place for orthodoxy to be challenged. It is the place where old ideas are supplanted by new, better ideas, and the only concern should be for the quality of the ideas. The process of overthrowing orthodoxy usually offends many powerful people, and tenure provides a protection for those who would dare to offend. It looks like a protection for professors, but it really is a protection for the ideas, who after all cannot speak for themselves.

Of course, for tenure to work it has to offer broad protection, which means that people will always find ways to exploit it for other purposes. A jerk with tenure is hard to control. But the basic idea is that in a community dedicated to a life of the mind, we will accept those unintended effects of tenure for the sake of the ideas. For the sake of progress.

I will send the TSA to you guys when they want to know why I have bacon in my suitcase.

I don't think bacon is generally considered a weapon. Although maybe there is some concern about the if-you-let-me-fly-the-plane-you-can-have-some-bacon scenario.

If that Canadian professor had tenure at a U.S. university there is no way that he would have been fired over that stuff.

not necessarily. one of the few things that tenured professors can be fired for is misconduct. they might not win, but they have a decent argument.