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  • Reply to a comment on: You, Andrew Marvell by faculties
    Comment written 8 months ago
    Thanks! I'm always up for new poetry!
  • Reply to a comment on: Things I Have Learned Recently by faculties
    Comment written 1 years ago
    Thank you, Clemantine!
  • Reply to a comment on: The Sweet Afterlife of Stuff by faculties
    Comment written 2 years ago
    George Carlin's monologue is so brilliant. I may just have to plotz. And I don't even really know what plotz means. He said it all about Stuff.
  • Reply to a comment on: The Sweet Afterlife of Stuff by faculties
    Comment written 2 years ago
    But you still have to post 'em and arrange for people to come and get 'em, don't you? One by one?

    My strategy is a) huge carloads of mixed Stuff to Goodwill, b) friend comes over by arrangement and takes Stuff away and you don't ask what she does with it, but Goodwill is probably involved -- and if she sells it on eBay and makes a profit instead, more power to her, c) artful display cabinets of reflective tape
  • Reply to blog post: A Tale of Two Course Evaluations by faculties
    Comment written 2 years ago
    Well, not many turned up for classes -- the Magic class only got about 50% of the students on any given day. I should emphasize that it was a history/culture class, not a How-To -- maybe that was the problem... I think most universities have a Pass/Fail option -- the theory is that you might want to take something really daring, like "Neurosurgery for Beginners" or "The Literature of the Co-Sine," but you don't dare because you're worried that something so far from your area of expertise will mess up your excellent g.p.a. So you take it Pass/Fail and expand your horizons. Well, that's the theory, anyway. Hwaet!
  • Reply to blog post: In Which Morale Tanks by faculties
    Comment written 2 years ago
    Thank you, menhir. I will upgrade your paper to 100% rag content when you come visit me in the copy shop. Because at the rate I'm going, it's not as if I will be living the high life off the proceeds of my grant proposal...
  • Reply to blog post: Gripery by faculties
    Comment written 2 years ago
    I just want to give an update here. My housemate came back, I asked him how the movie was. He confessed that he had been unable to get into it much because he was worried about everything he had to do for Monday. Isn’t this a sad state of affairs? So we thought about this, and then we made some popcorn and sat down and watched the movie. Take that, study guide.
  • Reply to blog post: Canoodling With The Problem by faculties
    Comment written 2 years ago
    Thank you all. Of course if I told where I am, I'd blow my cover, and the next time I griped about administrators, I'd probably get an ominous little note ("We found your tenure to have been an error, you have one hour to vacate your office, and give back the Post-Its, too"). Here's a hint for those in the know: there's something medieval-ish about our library. I wasn't implying that Harrisburg was the city of dreams (nothing against Harrisburg!). It was just where the pigs achieved escape velocity. Something to do with a long stretch of flat ground, nothing to do with in-laws, or so they claim...
  • Reply to blog post: Bending The Universe To My Will by faculties
    Comment written 2 years ago
    Thank you, jungleray and snacks!

    I should add that I am not 100 years old (despite appearances!) -- I am just trying to preserve anonymity, because if my identity gets out, you know, administrators might figure out that I really am talking about them, the paparazzi would be at my door night and day, you know the kind of thing...

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