Great news, Amy!
Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.
Giles ,'Get It Done'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Burrell - Sep 26, 2011 9:58:56 am PDT #28402 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
JZ - Sep 26, 2011 10:03:58 am PDT #28403 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Fantastic news, Amy! Congratulations to Stephen! Numfar, do the dance of joy!
meara - Sep 26, 2011 10:08:46 am PDT #28404 of 30001
Cash, interesting. I could see that if the prof was already a creepy guy, the first poster might creep me even more and dissuade ne from attending office hours. I can think of a few professors I know that would apply to. I can think of more who the poster would make me go "awesome, he's a firefly fan!". But the second one seems a rational response...
(note--my major was chem, so I had a lot of creepy poorly socialized professors)
Toddson - Sep 26, 2011 10:13:08 am PDT #28405 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
he he ... in seemingly creepy but not ...
One of the chemistry professors at my (women's) college would take the students into a dark supply closet and mix up some chemicals that would glow in the dark (don't ask me what the purpose was - other than GLOW IN THE DARK). One day he did this and, as a tour group of prospective students and their parents came by they heard squeals of girlish glee and "ooh! Dr. x! do it again!" He came out of the supply closet into the middle of a rather stunned - and suspicious - group, muttered "chemistry, ma'am, chemistry" and took off for the necessary chemicals.
megan walker - Sep 26, 2011 10:14:52 am PDT #28406 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
OK, just finished meeting with Big Boss who is here from MN to assure everyone that they are very committed to this office. He seemed more scared that I might start looking somewhere else than anything else.
On the upside, I had been wanting to approach my boss about his delegating more and letting me in on more things, which I guess will happen by default now.
aurelia - Sep 26, 2011 10:16:56 am PDT #28407 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Why would a "threat assessment team" be checking offices in the theatre department? The Prof probably should consider that schools are twitchy when it comes to security and maybe choose a different Firefly quote.
Amy - Sep 26, 2011 10:20:41 am PDT #28408 of 30001
Because books.
I had been wanting to approach my boss about his delegating more and letting me in on more things, which I guess will happen by default now.
Well, that's a yay! How was your vacation, by the way?
Jessica - Sep 26, 2011 10:22:16 am PDT #28409 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Honestly, if I saw that on a professor's door, I'd be pretty freaked out no matter what the context. Also pretty sure that "his" office door is property of the university and his first amendment rights do not extend to putting posters on it, therefore, not censorship.
Amy - Sep 26, 2011 10:25:18 am PDT #28410 of 30001
Because books.
It's a fantastic quote, but if I were him, I probably wouldn't hang it on my door. On my web page or something, sure, but not on college property.
aurelia - Sep 26, 2011 10:28:21 am PDT #28411 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Also pretty sure that "his" office door is property of the university and his first amendment rights do not extend to putting posters on it, therefore, not censorship.
While true, that's probably the approach that has his back up. If campus security had talked to him about why it was a concern instead of taking it down and censuring him then perhaps it wouldn't be a story today.