Spring Break time!
Well, OK, I'm going to do some work tomorrow. But I just taught my last class.
And, in "Are you kidding me?" news, I just got an email from national Hillel. (I ended up on their email list when I signed up for Yom Kippur services a few years ago.) The subject is "Help protect our students." I usually just delete these, but I figured that I'd see what the students need to be protected from.
Turns out, they need to be protected from people who don't agree with them about Israel.
Publications such as Inside Higher Ed, JTA and The Forward have all reported about incidents on campus:
* At San Jose State, the Israeli Consul General was forced to end his speech early due to heckling;
* At New York University and the University of Rochester, groups of students occupied campus buildings and demanded measures supportive of the Palestinians;
* At Cornell University, students involved with the Islamic Alliance for Justice lined pathways with 1,300 black flags to commemorate the violence in Gaza,
They have got to be kidding me. The first one, I can maybe see including in this. The second one had nothing whatsoever to do with Hillel. And I cannot see any possible way to view the third one as something that students need to be "protected" from.
So, yeah. It's an email appeal for money to protect students from little black flags commemorating people who were killed. I'm wavering between being outraged that they're actually asking for money like this and being furious that, since I'm a Jewish university student, they claim to represent me.
(And there actually was a fairly disturbing incident recently at York University in Canada, which would have made far more sense to include than the flags. Now I'm wondering why they didn't mention that.)
Well, today was a suckfest trifecta.
The only silver lining is that Mal seems to have gotten over
The Clone Wars,
and moved on to watching
Lilo and Stitch
over and over.
My wildlife calendar this month shows blue-footed boobies!
They are awesome boobies.
I've been given a desktop calendar of sorts, with Chinese sayings. I rather like Wednesday's: "The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names."
Last week it had "Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold." Apparently the Chinese also realise that girls only want boyfriends who have great skills.
Well, competence
is
sexy.
They are awesome boobies.
The caption on the picture informs me that it is a "booby pair performing courtship dance."
Waits for a jillion punchlines.
Last week it had "Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold." Apparently the Chinese also realise that girls only want boyfriends who have great skills.
Because if you give a man 1000 pieces of gold he will eat for
a day
probably somewhat longer than a day, but if you teach a man a skill, he can fish forever. Or something.
The caption on the picture informs me that it is a "booby pair performing courtship dance."
I hope it's the hokey pokey.
Because if you give a man 1000 pieces of gold he will eat for a day probably somewhat longer than a day, but if you teach a man a skill, he can fish forever. Or something.
I figure a guy with 1000 pieces of gold can probably afford to enrol in a class, learn some skills, and still have gold left over.
I hope it's the hokey pokey.
Because "courtship" is what it's all about?
I figure a guy with 1000 pieces of gold can probably afford to enrol in a class, learn some skills, and still have gold left over.
I dunno. I can't speak to Aussie Universities, but with the way tuition costs keep going up here...
the way tuition costs keep going up here...
The cost of gold has been going up, too. So it all comes down to the size of the pieces.
Sad, really, because if the piece are small you'll really need the skills you can't afford to learn.
Because "courtship" is what it's all about?
That, or shaking it all about.
