Monday has been oddly quiet. (Accordingly, I expect the apocalypse around 9pm.) Interview was, well, quiet. What do you do when the person interviewing you is so reserved, she doesn't actually have any questions for you? I rambled on about the social model and emancipatory research. She wants me to make a lot of changes to my proposal. It will only be worth it if they're giving me money in return. Which I'll find about in August. Great department, though - they're doing fascinating work on young people, religion and identity.

I agree with Shir. First thing I thought when I read it was "Tagline! That has to be a tagline!"

Done.

What is the purpose of this, other than to drive people who haven't had enough coffee batshit with frustration trying to tear precisely along the perforation without mess ups?

Sounds like you need more coffee. Great to hear that you're enjoying your new hometown!

I also had a huge damn epiphany

Those are so cool. I'm having a recurring dream that I'm sure is about something important. Unfortunately, it always gets interjected with pointless dream crap. The other night it was overshadowed by images of my PA getting swallowed up by a tent she was trying to put up.

How's the library and the studying, Shir?

ETA: Huge job~ma, Nora.

On Table Talk, NATLBSB(Not A Tagline But Should Be) was a common usage. Not for me, because the months I spent on TT, I spent trying to perfect my impression of a potted palm.

Nah, the private sector wouldn't know "assonance" if it bit them...on the ass...I guess. Way too much of a 50 cent word. Bartlett's senior staff was all way erudite (except when they were playing exposition fairy). Unless you're talking about academia, which would be very bad for Josh for a lot of reasons. Toby would enjoy harassing the undergrads, though.

Someone is wrong on the Internet. I should just let it go, right? Even if it's a professional listserv and people might, you know, give advice based on this other's guy's "well, that never happened to me!" reasoning. (Actually, I volunteered the right answer and this guy said I was wrong. But I should just let it go because I know I'm right and my answer had a source.)

How's the library and the studying, Shir?

Mount Scopus library is sexy, yet simple. You'll have to trust me on that.

Studying what I don't need to study went excellent.

Studying what I needed to study went less than excellent - I'm 30 pages behind what I thought I'll do.

My mom doesn't understand why I make a fuss about something that's "very close" to what I wanted her to buy for me. Help.

Can you compare it to something that she cares about? Like the right blouse in the wrong size, or a CD by an artist with the right first name, but wrong last name?

Can you compare it to something that she cares about? Like the right blouse in the wrong size, or a CD by an artist with the right first name, but wrong last name?

Good idea. Plants metaphors, here I come.

My mom's a big gardener too. And, Cash, she also says if you hear anymore from Crazy Hair Mom, F-bombs are appropriate(bearing in mind we might be secret Danish Emanuels.) But my mom cares about hair a lot and even she thinks CHM is completely off the hook.

Hivemind question:

Does anyone else experience the fear of saying something that could get interpreted wrong or accidentally reveal something about yourself when speaking with people who studied psychology for years and don't know you so well yet you're in some kind of touch with each other? Or is it just me?

Signed,
Talked too much in email while being dead tired last night

Me? Make a Joke To Cut The Tension Girl? With the diagnosis? Oh, just a couple million times. Especially since other people don't make jokes about their mother surviving cancer in order to get run down by a car full of clowns.