Actually, his first message was just, "I need a math teacher." Then, two hours later, he sent one that said, "That came out wrong," and added that he thought my profile sounded cool, and asked some more about something I'd mentioned in it, and that he could use some help with math.
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'
Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Hil R. - Oct 03, 2014 5:42:08 am PDT #13551 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Rick - Oct 03, 2014 8:11:09 am PDT #13552 of 30002
So, I need one more teaching reference. Is it OK to ask a colleague,
Yes, certainly, as long as it is someone who would be expected to be in a position to judge. A senior lecturer would be better if one is available, but any experienced person would be ok. The important thing is that they be able to report directly on what they saw in the classroom.
Observations and letters by colleagues are standard in building a tenure case, because there really isn't anyone who qualifies as a supervisor of tenure track faculty.
Hil R. - Oct 03, 2014 9:17:28 am PDT #13553 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Thanks. I thought of someone better to ask -- the undergrad coordinator, who I know a bit, and who I think I can ask to come observe one of my classes. If he says no, then I'll ask the colleague I was thinking of (who is not a senior lecturer, but he runs the teaching discussion group that I've been a part of, and during the summers, he teaches at a teacher-training program, so he knows all the educational jargon and stuff.)
(I don't actually have any research references anymore, since I haven't done all that much research lately, but I have been supervising an undergrad student on a research project that's actually been getting some pretty cool results, and the person who runs the undergrad research program here is one of my references, so I'm keeping her up-to-date on how that's going, as a semi-research reference.)
Hil R. - Oct 03, 2014 9:24:14 am PDT #13554 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm not emailing the person until next week, though -- I don't want to get a "no" answer while I'm fasting, because I know that my brain will start panicking then. I can deal with a "no" if my blood sugar isn't plummeting at the same time.
omnis_audis - Oct 03, 2014 12:14:27 pm PDT #13555 of 30002
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
It's so cute when faculty discover old Google Easter eggs. One just discovered tilt. So cute.
Toddson - Oct 03, 2014 12:25:12 pm PDT #13556 of 30002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
OMG ... someone's made a family of taxidermied mouse vampire hunters.
Scrappy - Oct 03, 2014 12:46:42 pm PDT #13557 of 30002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Those are INCREDIBLE.
Toddson - Oct 03, 2014 12:50:45 pm PDT #13558 of 30002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I knew they'd appeal to my Buffistas! or at least impress you.
tommyrot - Oct 03, 2014 12:57:36 pm PDT #13559 of 30002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
My first reaction was to wonder if The Bloggess had seen those. Then I scrolled down....
erikaj - Oct 03, 2014 2:36:16 pm PDT #13560 of 30002
Always Anti-fascist!
I messaged a math major on there for a while...we talked about Numbers. That was cool. I'm not sure if it would have led to a bigger relationship, though.