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« on: November 02, 2011, 02:15:26 AM » |
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As a chronic, pushy interrupter who knows more than anyone else, I love this piece. I feel sure that some, perhaps all, Forumites will recognize themselves. It is about you. You know it is. http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Are-Some-Academics/129554/The Fiona |
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The Fiona or perhaps La Fiona
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The Right Reverend Fiona, PhD, Bishop of the Fora
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« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2011, 03:22:34 AM » |
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I love it too. I often like Toor's writing, though I know she's nearly universally reviled around here.
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« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2011, 01:51:14 PM » |
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I love it too. I often like Toor's writing, though I know she's nearly universally reviled around here.
If she's reviled, it's probably jealousy from those who can't/won't write as clearly and as interestingly as she does and get published and paid. The Fiona, not a reviler |
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« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2011, 02:02:03 PM » |
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I wish she would've presented that article as an oral report, because then I could've interrupted her.
<some interthreaduality>
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« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2011, 04:38:40 PM » |
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BTW, difficulty in waiting for until your conversation partner is finished before you start talking is a symptom of ADD/ADHD (also interthreaduality, though the thread was from a month or so ago).
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In the midst of the word he was trying to say,
In the midst of his laughter and glee,
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For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.
Lewis Carroll
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« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2011, 05:43:12 PM » |
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BTW, difficulty in waiting for until your conversation partner is finished before you start talking is a symptom of ADD/ADHD (also interthreaduality, though the thread was from a month or so ago).
And also of being a jerk. VP |
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« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2011, 07:24:57 PM » |
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Eh, if I didn't interrupt my colleagues, then I would never get to talk. Seriously, I did the experiment soon after I arrived to see how long I could nod and say, "Uh-huh", before the conversational ball was passed back to me. I once sat in an office for two hours (I kid you not), before I excused myself to go teach a class. For two hours, that guy talked at me about nothing in particular. I now interrupt him freely every few minutes as the story arcs change.
I have also written somewhere here recently that I am considered shy and quiet among the women in my family. Again, (by direct test), if I do not interrupt, then I don't get to talk for hour upon hour.
Sometimes, interrupting is a learned behavior because other people won't play nice and pass the freakin' ball. Other times, yeah, I'm just playing the "masculine" game of "I'm smarter, shut up and listen", as a direct result of my engineering training. Again, if you wait until it's your turn, then you ain't getting a turn.
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If you haven't got either the anatomical or metaphorical balls to post your own question on a pseudonymous internet forum, then academia is the wrong job for you.
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« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2011, 09:33:23 PM » |
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BTW, difficulty in waiting for until your conversation partner is finished before you start talking is a symptom of ADD/ADHD (also interthreaduality, though the thread was from a month or so ago).
And also of being a jerk. VP Well, I guess that it's the difference between "cannot" and "doesn't want to". |
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