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I have a terrible, ugly, dirty type confession: I think Katy Perry is really pretty damn hot.
To be clear, I don't think her music is any good. She's just super cute, and - for lack of a better term - she's pretty fantastically "boobtacular."
(this is prolly my fave one btw)
I mean, seriously guys, she's got really nice eyes. And stuff.
I'll do my best to hide my shame.
To be clear, I don't think her music is any good. She's just super cute, and - for lack of a better term - she's pretty fantastically "boobtacular."
(this is prolly my fave one btw)
I mean, seriously guys, she's got really nice eyes. And stuff.
I'll do my best to hide my shame.
I am a magnet for disease this fall. I had just kicked one cold to the curb, and a week later - here I am stuffy and hacking again. For some reason, when I get sick - I'm a hot mess. It's not just the sniffles and a sore throat for a few days. Oh no. It's fully on congestion, sinus pressure, runny nose. It's aches, coughing, and phlegm. It's *nasty* basically. So I'm all doped up on Advil and Mucinex, then at bedtime it's two pillows, VapoRub, and NyQuil. (Seriously, I probably owe my life to the Vicks company.)
I think I'm through the worst of it. This shit be lame!
I think I'm through the worst of it. This shit be lame!
Today, E said that my sample chapter for job interviews was "pretty good and much improved." He also added that he thought I would be able to wrack up a few good job talks.
This made me so happy, it's almost embarrassing. It's kind of weird to be almost 30 and so reliant on someone else's approval for your own happiness.
(No matter how much I try to pretend it *doesn't* matter...)
This made me so happy, it's almost embarrassing. It's kind of weird to be almost 30 and so reliant on someone else's approval for your own happiness.
(No matter how much I try to pretend it *doesn't* matter...)
Enough of that job crap.
Just wanted to note: I totally love the hell out Sandman Mystery Theater. I seriously miss good old school Vertigo comics like that.
Just wanted to note: I totally love the hell out Sandman Mystery Theater. I seriously miss good old school Vertigo comics like that.
Serious question time!
So, next year - God willing - I'll be an assistant professor at some fine institution of higher learning. And I sort of right away wonder: what does that mean about me and SG? I'm looking for advice, basically, from you other professional types out there.
The thing is, I'm not worried about my colleagues especially. Like they care that I have a journal on an alt-porn site? Whatevs. I would suppose that most of them don't even know what this place is. Fine enough. So this is not an "endangering your tenure" kind of concern. We're talking about liberal (or libertarian) academics after all. (Unless I end up at some creepy Christian school .. and that's a whole OTHER bag of worms.)
My bigger concern is with *students.* If you look at my journals and my profile, and then do a few quick Google searches, it's not too hard to figure out who I am, where I went to school, and who the various cast of characters I occasionally refer to are. So I am hardly anonymous.
If I'm at a big school, there are almost certain to be students who are on the site. There's less of a chance at that at a small school - but I'd be much more likely to *run into* students who are members then. So each has its problems. Of course, the site itself is a pretty big place itself anymore.
It's not like I'm advertising that I'm a member, but it's not *implausible* that I would join the regional group of wherever I ended up - and so on and so forth. This is all a long way of saying: what's a professional person to do? It's not that my journal is *that* salacious, but it's reasonably personal - and with things that my students have no business knowing. Do I leave the site, go anonymous? The latter seems silly to me: I think it's either go or stay. I don't use the site as much as I did, so leaving wouldn't be that big of a deal - though I'd miss you all of course. So I dunno .... thoughts out there?
So, next year - God willing - I'll be an assistant professor at some fine institution of higher learning. And I sort of right away wonder: what does that mean about me and SG? I'm looking for advice, basically, from you other professional types out there.
The thing is, I'm not worried about my colleagues especially. Like they care that I have a journal on an alt-porn site? Whatevs. I would suppose that most of them don't even know what this place is. Fine enough. So this is not an "endangering your tenure" kind of concern. We're talking about liberal (or libertarian) academics after all. (Unless I end up at some creepy Christian school .. and that's a whole OTHER bag of worms.)
My bigger concern is with *students.* If you look at my journals and my profile, and then do a few quick Google searches, it's not too hard to figure out who I am, where I went to school, and who the various cast of characters I occasionally refer to are. So I am hardly anonymous.
If I'm at a big school, there are almost certain to be students who are on the site. There's less of a chance at that at a small school - but I'd be much more likely to *run into* students who are members then. So each has its problems. Of course, the site itself is a pretty big place itself anymore.
It's not like I'm advertising that I'm a member, but it's not *implausible* that I would join the regional group of wherever I ended up - and so on and so forth. This is all a long way of saying: what's a professional person to do? It's not that my journal is *that* salacious, but it's reasonably personal - and with things that my students have no business knowing. Do I leave the site, go anonymous? The latter seems silly to me: I think it's either go or stay. I don't use the site as much as I did, so leaving wouldn't be that big of a deal - though I'd miss you all of course. So I dunno .... thoughts out there?
So, fall just *showed up* here in Chicago - and I think it's here to stay? The hell?
i actually like fall a lot: jackets and brisk mornings are all right by me. The only down side is that fall leads to winter - and that's just a goddamn mess. But for real: I could have gone for a couple more weeks of nice warm weather, instead it's going to hit the 40s this week and it's rained all day *twice* in the last week. Ugh.
i actually like fall a lot: jackets and brisk mornings are all right by me. The only down side is that fall leads to winter - and that's just a goddamn mess. But for real: I could have gone for a couple more weeks of nice warm weather, instead it's going to hit the 40s this week and it's rained all day *twice* in the last week. Ugh.
