I'm boycotting CM until Angry Archie returns. That's right. You heard me. I refuse to be miserable in any kind of collegiate manner.
And I want to know if anyone met Archie in Boston. Did he seem evil? Was he happy? Was he drunk?
Q. What's going on?!?! Where is Angry Archie? Is he actually angry?
A. If I can't have my daily dose of Archie-esque anger, then... I don't know what I'll do!
I'm not kidding about this. You'll see.
I have had one fucking hell of a shitty week. And I'm not going to take it anymore.
Archie is still sleeping it off. That or he was stalked and murdered by the people that recognized him.
ReplyDeleteNow what was this you were saying about your bad week?
Or maybe he's on sabbatical, and has nothing to be angry about? I, too, miss him. But yes, please tell us about your week. We may not be Archie, but misery still loves company.
ReplyDeleteArchie doesn't sleep. He waits.
ReplyDelete{{{SBubba}}} *angrily*
ReplyDelete&*&*&* ATTENTION CONSPIRACY DOUBTERS!! (*&*&*^
ReplyDeleteIt is clear to me now that the ONE person who wrote Darla Keef, Yaro, Richard Pringle, and Leslie K is no longer on the blog. All of those "writers" stopped contributing about the same time.
Now, who's left?
Well, there's the Angy Archie / Southern Bubba / Strelnikov guy. He's so egotistical that he offers a shout out to himself in this note!!! DRAMA QUEEN.
Then the science guy writes Frankendick and Beaker Ben, although those styles are nicely and cleverly different.
Then there's ADJUNCT GUY, who writes all the whiny adjunct posts under a variety of names.
It's so sad to stop by and see this page JUST ABOUT out of business.
You can hit REFRESH until you hit 10 million, but the truth is NOBODY READS YOUR SHIT, and you should probably be focusing on your teaching instead of making a case for your brilliance on a page nobody reads.
Sad, sad, sad.
THE TRUTH IS HERE, my friends.
Oh, and ProfHacker is the best academic blog, and when you admit it, you'll improve your own teaching tenfold!
ReplyDeleteCheck this out:
http://twitter.com/profhacker
and
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/
You are welcome!
>anonymous said...
ReplyDelete>Oh, and ProfHacker is the best academic blog,
> and when you admit it, you'll improve your
> own teaching tenfold!
>Check this out:
>http://twitter.com/profhacker
>and
>http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/
>You are welcome!
It seems to me that anonymous just revealed his/her/its underlying motives, or at least committed a tactical error. I wasn't thinking of CM as any sort of direct competition to ProfHacker; now I'm wondering.
I'm assuming many regular contributors are either nursing the dregs of winter break, or overwhelmed by the beginning of the new semester (or perhaps, in some cases -- including, I hope, Darla -- busy juggling the demands of the new semester and campus visits). I suspect that reports of the resulting misery from regular contributors will be showing up in every-increasing numbers as the semester gets underway. In the meantime I'm enjoying the bulletins and questions from people like Naveen and Sam.
The only regular participant I'm a little worried about is Marcia Brady. She had mentioned a seriously-ill mother, if I'm remembering correctly, and she hasn't been around for a while. I hope she's just taking a break.
Oops; that should read "ever-increasing"
ReplyDeleteProf Hacker blows huge, smelly, unicorn-flavored chunks. But it is so fucking nicey-nice and sanctimonious that I can't believe we have a troll from there. Life is strange on the interwebs, I guess.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm still on break.
But to answer the specific question in the thirsty, no one showed up. Of course there were three hotels and five bars to choose from, so the odds of that happening were pretty long. For the record, I was in the Marriott bar with the giant screens showing non-stop sports, having lunch with a friend. I wasn't paying that much attention, but it didn't look like anyone was actively looking for me.
I love the paranoia of "anonymous"; I'm not either of those people, I'm just Strelnikov the fake Russian who despises `flake students.
ReplyDeleteI do hope that some of last year's regulars show up to screwam about the pinheads they are forced to teach and the blockheads in admin who are making things worse.
My finger slipped; "screwam" should be scream....speaking of the subject, we haven't had many posts about profs "screwaming" students.
ReplyDeleteIs "screwaming" about scre+waming or screw+aming? This is how my demented brain works.
ReplyDeleteI would have to say screw+aming because the student is aiming for a better grade by making love to their prof.
ReplyDeleteHow are you still on break???!!!
ReplyDeleteI will take being confused with Beaker Ben as a compliment. At least I'm not being confused with Kalamazoo Katie...
ReplyDelete@Stella & Contingent: It was just one of those weeks. It wasn't the students. It was my colleagues again. Kind of a variation on the theme that sometimes it's far easier to just do something yourself than to manage other people and hope that they get it done right. I spent ten hours last week doing things "by the book" instead of getting things done in the fifteen minutes it should have taken. What frustrates me (and also pleases me) is that I know that I did the best I could do last week.
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