Below are some photos of Leslie K's first day in the new office space. I know it looks deserted, but we're going to try to hire some crack grad students to fill those empty desks, read the insane mail that comes in, and to eventually take over the blurring of photos and the endless font fixing that takes up so much of our days.
Of course it's not the same as the old RYS compound in the desert, or the two shed affair we had in Oxford OH, but it's home. Sure, there will be some adjusting. Leslie K said, in fact, "I'm not fucking moving to fucking Utah. Can't I telecommute?" But once I took her downtown for some caramel bread pudding at the Union Grill, she was coming around.
If you're ever on campus, you'll be welcome to come and visit.
Room 211 in the Tech Ed Building at Weber State. Nobody knows we're here yet. |
Ogden UT, the new home of College Misery. |
Cal showing Leslie K the new digs, and then, apparently, going out dancing. |
I once had an amazing summer with a young man from Ogden! It was pre-hubby and completely appropriate for our age. (And it was...uh...naughty.)
ReplyDeleteFor that reason, Ogden has always seemed like such a sexy place, although I'm betting the Mormonism tempers it some. But maybe not. All those kids, right?
But, I'm off topic. Ogden! Good luck at the new compound.
Utah? UTAH!? You found the one place more boring than Oxford Ohio! And I bet The Duck hates it...
ReplyDeleteI tea-partying love Cal. And yay for a new Compound that makes the old one look glamorous. May the ghosts of the eaten alpacas find your new digs.
ReplyDeleteThe new message in the header mentions alpaci. What is an alpaci? Is it like ennui, part of the RYS slogan? More importantly, does it taste better fried or grilled?
ReplyDeleteAlpaci? Like the plural? Jesus, I'm always learning here.
ReplyDeleteLove the new location! It somehow seems more subversive than ever. It truly is the Oxford of the intermountain states.
Apparently it is a plural, formed along Latin rules (I think; I'm going by alumna/alumnus/alumni). The question is what language "alpaca" originally derives from, and, assuming it's not Latin (or at least a Romance language), whether it's fair game to form the plural of a non-latinate word on the Latin model.
DeleteI dabble a bit in the camelid fiber arts in my position, and am fairly certain that the name is derived from the Quechua, the Incan language still spoken by Andean herders.
DeleteI am not fluent in the language, but I'll bet a duck it doesn't use Latinate plurals.
Alpacæ. And Cassandra, it's only "alumni" if there's at least one man involved. Don't ask us why, we didn't invent Latin grammar, we were only forced to learn all of it.
Delete@Faris: that's what I suspected. If "alpaca" is some sort of Spanish adaptation/reworking of the original word, then I suppose one might argue for some sort of Latin connection, but it's a stretch.
Delete@Aethelfrith: as a graduate of a girls' high school (and a then-vestigial and now-vanished women's college), I'm aware of that; I belong to several alumnae as well as several alumni associations.
Is there a good chinese place nearby?
ReplyDeleteHmm. . .Utah. Mountains; desert; proximity to Yaro -- sounds good. Caramel bread pudding, too. And there are some other-than-Mormon church choices, right? Maybe even some Christians (Mormon or otherwise) of the more progressive sort? However, the architecture at Weber State looks rather like that of my own campus (though perhaps a bit more interesting. What's that round thing?). I think I'll take the telecommute option, at least until grades are in.
ReplyDeleteAnd I've been wondering/worrying about The Duck, which/who hasn't been mentioned lately. But a couple of turtles have apparently joined the menagerie. Perhaps at least one of them is a snapping turtle, and ate the duck? Or did we eat the duck to celebrate 4 million hits? My memory of that party is a bit hazy.
Have a great time in your new digs! You can also go on some great day trips from there. Aren't you closer to Vegas now, too?
ReplyDeleteWhat happens in Ogden, stays in Ogden. Thank God.
ReplyDeleteThis new office doesn't have that old burnt-coyote smell of the old one.
ReplyDeleteNot yet, anyway.
We should have a CM semi formal!
ReplyDeleteHow long has Wilfred Brimley run the page?
ReplyDeleteThank you, Cal!!! Are you still going to make our awesome graphics?
ReplyDeleteJust over two hours away, on I-80 West, lies West Wendover, Nevada--the nearest portal to debauchery from the new CM digs. But don't stop until you cross the state line. Wendover, Utah doesn't tolerate your kind. They have a lovely 4th of July parade, however. But you've got to stake out your spot along the parade route a couple of days early--they fill up fast.
ReplyDeleteLeslie and Cal, you both clean up real purdy.
There is no decent Chinese restaurant in Ogden. Head to SLC. You've put Leslie in the one of the oldest, most run down buildings, and as a primarily undergrad institution you're going to be hard pressed to find grad students. Also, we're a pretty small campus, we would have noticed someone moving in, and the round building is the planetarium. Still: welcome to Ogden? Oh, for the record, there are a million geese hanging out on campus so a duck or two would go unnoticed.
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