angry_noodle
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« Reply #60 on: February 23, 2011, 11:31:41 PM » |
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I go up for tenure soon.
The stress is really getting to me. If someone else asks me how my tenure prospects are going I'm going to pop like a big meat balloon.
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« Reply #61 on: February 23, 2011, 11:45:28 PM » |
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I am sorry that you are being pestered by dolts. But dolts are still going to be dolts, drinking or sober. Who the hell asks about tenure prospects, anyway? Gah! What idiots! Hang in there, pal. <passing you a delicious cuppa chai, since that's what I am drinking at the moment> |
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Systeme_D is right. <rah rah RESEARCH!> |
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angry_noodle
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« Reply #62 on: February 24, 2011, 12:00:29 AM » |
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Thanks Systeme_D_ !
I was out at my former job a while ago. I'm working with them on a few things, and I admit that I was beset by a strong sense of nostalgia. Then upon my return I'm being pummeled (or so it seems) by tenured faculty asking me what my chances are for tenure. "How many publications? How much research funding?" etcetcetc. Invariably upon telling them, they would, to a person, go "Hmm" and walk away. Until now I've not had any sort of indication that I was doing anything other than well. I'm not even sure they are actually being mean or negative when they do that when I tell them. I have no idea.
Still, this I don't need.
Anyway - thanks again for the chai. Very tasty.
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msparticularity
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« Reply #63 on: February 24, 2011, 12:45:36 AM » |
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As I posted on another thread (in response to all of the poor candidates trying to deal with the "So, have you gotten a job yet?" questions), this kind of stupid inquiry seems to be endemic. It is closely related to two common inquiries of pregnant women: "How much weight have you gained?" and "Haven't you had that baby yet?"
I like to think that, karmically speaking, these folks will get to spend some time (a few hundred years) in their next lives being asked these questions endlessly.
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"Once admit that the sole verifiable or fruitful object of knowledge is the particular set of changes that generate the object of study...and no intelligible question can be asked about what, by assumption, lies outside." John Dewey
"Be particular." Jill Conner Browne
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angry_noodle
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« Reply #64 on: March 05, 2011, 04:27:05 AM » |
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Oh God.
Please. Let it stop.
I'm not sure I can take much more...
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sunny_side_up
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« Reply #65 on: March 05, 2011, 07:54:34 AM » |
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Oh God.
Please. Let it stop.
I'm not sure I can take much more...
What's up, annoyed_pasta? |
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msparticularity
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« Reply #66 on: March 05, 2011, 03:31:19 PM » |
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Oh God.
Please. Let it stop.
I'm not sure I can take much more...
What's up, annoyed_pasta? You are definitely among friends and fellow sufferers on these Fora, too--these last few weeks have seen a remarkable escalation in general suckitude. |
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"Once admit that the sole verifiable or fruitful object of knowledge is the particular set of changes that generate the object of study...and no intelligible question can be asked about what, by assumption, lies outside." John Dewey
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angry_noodle
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« Reply #67 on: April 18, 2011, 11:21:09 PM » |
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Don't mistake the rapid inhaling and exhaling for hyperventilating. I'm just trying to get centered.
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zarathustra
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« Reply #68 on: April 18, 2011, 11:27:11 PM » |
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Don't mistake the rapid inhaling and exhaling for hyperventilating. I'm just trying to get centered.
Everything relatively OK? |
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angry_noodle
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« Reply #69 on: April 18, 2011, 11:29:04 PM » |
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Don't mistake the rapid inhaling and exhaling for hyperventilating. I'm just trying to get centered.
Everything relatively OK? Oh, more or less. Doing ok. I really should have bought a punching bag for my office, but I brought some disused couch cushions so I'm ok. Just venting. Thanks, Zarathustra! |
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msparticularity
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« Reply #70 on: April 19, 2011, 11:16:16 AM » |
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Don't mistake the rapid inhaling and exhaling for hyperventilating. I'm just trying to get centered.
Everything relatively OK? Oh, more or less. Doing ok. I really should have bought a punching bag for my office, but I brought some disused couch cushions so I'm ok. Just venting. Thanks, Zarathustra! My brother bought me a very lovely pink plastic baseball bat to use on sofa cushions several years ago when I was going through a particularly difficult time. That and "silent screaming" got me through. (One does the scream without vocal cords, but with all of the air movement and bodily and facial expressiveness. It can be done in restroom stalls for those without a private office space.) |
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