What a place!My hat is off to you all. I found you via Twitter 2 days ago, and I can barely believe you've been here all this time.
I've read hundreds of posts (in a sort of reading orgy) in the past 2 days and am amazed at your humor and insight. A colleague told me it was an insular place, too many inside jokes, too much animus. But I disagree. I feel totally acculturated, and I only wish I'd found you sooner. I only wish you'd existed 10 years ago when I was first coming to the profession.
The standard "bits" on here are fantastic, the whole series of myths and heroes and heroines, and the occasional villain.
I know some of you better than I know some of my own colleagues! Bravo for sharing the misery so deliciously.
There are some pieces on here that every faculty member should read, and many which we should share with our snowflakes.
I greet you (wildly and happily) from the blue skies of Oklahoma. I'm a tenure profie in Economics, and I'm happy and miserable all at the same time. I feel as if I'm home!
Welcome, Orville!
ReplyDelete"There are some pieces on here that every faculty member should read, and many which we should share with our snowflakes."
Which posts would you nominate? Maybe we should have a "Required Reading" section, or a Hall of Fame, or both.
Chiming in with a "welcome" to OK Orville and a loud SECOND to the creation of a Required Reading / Greatest Hits section for the sidebar!
DeleteI love the "it wears off" tag. Still, welcome!
ReplyDeletePlease make sure you pay close attention to Yaro. And on the other end of the spectrum, Strel. It is somewhere in that netherworld of in-between that the rest of us here reside.
ReplyDeleteOrville,
ReplyDeleteWelcome!
Welcome (wildly and exuberantly!) Orville. We are always excited to add new readers to the community because, let's face it, even WE don't get our "inside" jokes. And anyone who knows what a reading orgy is, is by all means, needed here.
ReplyDelete... or an orgy of any kind, come to think of it. I hope to read about your misery soon.
Delete"Fresh from an Orgy"
DeleteAnyone who can be fresh after an orgy sounds pretty awesome