tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post1170459541975021583..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: live blogging the HDC, day 2Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-15023518905384306112013-01-07T03:14:58.794-05:002013-01-07T03:14:58.794-05:00I submit that the key to a good academic marriage ...I submit that the key to a good academic marriage is to pursue a match that's outside (way, way outside) your own discipline. Dr. Hubs and I are polar opposites in terms of field, which gives each of us a very, VERY different experience of academia overall. <br /><br />Sometimes I go to his conferences, but he has yet to accompany me to mine, mostly because he prefers European associations Edna Expathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11438002061912782295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-36391514506679786632013-01-06T03:29:35.472-05:002013-01-06T03:29:35.472-05:00I thought every discipline had the SAME one. I thought every discipline had the SAME one. Merely Academichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452389428113097744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-89849938353644002802013-01-06T03:28:28.668-05:002013-01-06T03:28:28.668-05:00I remember those conferences...I remember those conferences...Merely Academichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452389428113097744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-81009572999490222322013-01-05T21:34:02.355-05:002013-01-05T21:34:02.355-05:00It's amazing how applicable Merely Academic...It's amazing how applicable Merely Academic's observations are to my own HDCs from 20 years ago, when I went annually (pre-TT at a CC). It was neither the AHA nor the MLA, but the panels, parties, and other details are remarkably apt. The only thing we didn't have then was the texting.<br /><br />MA, I particularly liked this: "Someone quotes the only sentence from Famous Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02906546940408742913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-55865234321422656942013-01-05T21:27:02.015-05:002013-01-05T21:27:02.015-05:00Dick Tingle rocks!Dick Tingle rocks!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02906546940408742913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-26458676490413084952013-01-05T21:03:03.843-05:002013-01-05T21:03:03.843-05:00My non-academic spouse loves conferences. She say...My non-academic spouse loves conferences. She says they're just like science fiction conventions only more nerdy and with less interesting costumes.New England Nataliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01035798065496710431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-41172136122466813772013-01-05T20:42:16.764-05:002013-01-05T20:42:16.764-05:0013. Tried to return the panties
I found on the TV....13. Tried to return the panties<br />I found on the TV.<br />Chagrined to find,<br />that they wouldn't fit me.Richard Tingle, PhDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15290520040846370364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-2052266031611785632013-01-05T17:51:49.074-05:002013-01-05T17:51:49.074-05:00I only go to HDC when it's in the city where I...I only go to HDC when it's in the city where I live, or if it's in a city where my wife and I would like to travel, generally Boston or New York City. Then we make it part of a vacation. My wife goes site-seeing while I'm in sessions and we spend the evening together. And she's not an academic. Good thing, because she makes more than twice what I do! Middle-Aged and Morosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04046076243513948921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-392614965652822122013-01-05T17:20:58.803-05:002013-01-05T17:20:58.803-05:00Instead of children, we academic couples breed con...Instead of children, we academic couples breed contempt. :)The Contemplative Cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02088570661592922436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-15893946306853020672013-01-05T15:53:08.935-05:002013-01-05T15:53:08.935-05:00You take your wife? In all of my years at various ...You take your wife? In all of my years at various conferences, I've never met a spouse.<br /><br />Oh, do you have an academic spouse? That would make sense.<br /><br />But I don't know how academics marry other academics. That's a mystery to me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-88353939398231084582013-01-05T13:36:48.890-05:002013-01-05T13:36:48.890-05:00As a grad student at HDC I always just went to bed...As a grad student at HDC I always just went to bed with a stack of new books to read. I obviously was doing something wrong. <br /><br />Now when I go to HDC I wake up with my wife, and a stack of new books, which really is the best of both worlds! Middle-Aged and Morosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04046076243513948921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-49431832886439579442013-01-05T13:34:27.878-05:002013-01-05T13:34:27.878-05:00well, the East German judge did give it a "10...well, the East German judge did give it a "10".Middle-Aged and Morosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04046076243513948921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-2327942934480192772013-01-05T13:01:06.664-05:002013-01-05T13:01:06.664-05:00Bombay neat.Bombay neat.Pat from Peoriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10005657976057072299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-47063053520187639032013-01-05T12:15:35.303-05:002013-01-05T12:15:35.303-05:00No love for the East German Anthem, I see.
I find...No love for the East German Anthem, I see.<br /><br />I find it less lugubrious than "Deutchland Ueber Alles."Strelnikovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660962615198939441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-32100942864027583842013-01-05T12:13:30.249-05:002013-01-05T12:13:30.249-05:0012. I wake up in someone else's room. He says ...12. I wake up in someone else's room. He says he's a grad student in Polymorphous Anthropology and Witchcraft. We're eating bagels that he stole from the people at Pearson.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-47962043757125149892013-01-05T12:02:59.935-05:002013-01-05T12:02:59.935-05:00You are an excellent conferencer...my occasional v...You are an excellent conferencer...my occasional visits to those things are much more debauched.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-13007637594817612602013-01-05T11:23:58.855-05:002013-01-05T11:23:58.855-05:00Also, thank you, Metropolis police department, for...Also, thank you, Metropolis police department, for the six-car sirenfest outside between 3 & 3:30 last night. I''m sure none of us needed the sleep.Merely Academichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452389428113097744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-33378140077321467082013-01-05T11:09:52.765-05:002013-01-05T11:09:52.765-05:00What is an "unmixed pleasure"?What is an "unmixed pleasure"?Cindyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815313561677464295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-90815885502792217632013-01-05T04:21:38.410-05:002013-01-05T04:21:38.410-05:00Auferstanden aus Ruinen
und der Zukunft zugewandt,...Auferstanden aus Ruinen<br />und der Zukunft zugewandt,<br />laßt uns Dir zum Guten dienen,<br />Deutschland, einig Vaterland.<br />Alte Not gilt es zu zwingen,<br />und wir zwingen sie vereint,<br />denn es muß uns doch gelingen,<br />daß die Sonne schön wie nie<br />über Deutschland scheint,<br />über Deutschland scheint.<br /><br />Glück und Friede sei beschieden<br />Deutschland, unserm Strelnikovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660962615198939441noreply@blogger.com