Re: Can't a Girl Get Any Privacy?

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I have the same regrets about not getting a degree in Chaucer -- or, rather, not getting admitted to such a degree program. I often think whistfully about how I could be teaching four sections of freshman comp while desperately trying to finish my dissertation and pad my CV so as to be a good candidate for one of the three lit jobs that would open up next year.

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Adam, isn't that more or less your actual plan?

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I finally have to ask. Who the hell is Chaucer?

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Well, it's the same except for no freshman comp, and I'd be looking for either the 2 cont phil jobs or the 4 theology jobs. I'm thinking that theology is ultimately a safer bet, career-wise.

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I'm thinking that theology is ultimately a safer bet, career-wise.

You're totally right there. It's going to be the new safety net: pray your ass off. Has a nice medieval flavor, and you're wise to get in on the ground floor.

Bitch should pay attention, this may suggest some pessimistic investing scenarios she'd be interested in.

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I finally have to ask. Who the hell is Chaucer?

http://www.librarius.com/cantales.htm

Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote

The droghte of March hath perced to the roote

And bathed every veyne in swich licour,

Of which vertu engendred is the flour;

Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth

Inspired hath in every holt and heeth

The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne

Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,

And smale foweles maken melodye,

That slepen al the nyght with open eye-

(So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);

Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages

And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes

To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;

And specially from every shires ende

Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,

The hooly blisful martir for to seke

That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seeke.

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Walter,

That's it?! Some freaking five year old playing around with invented spelling? Well, for . . .

What with PHDs and such this blog is getting a little too uppity for my taste.

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Investing scenarios are purely theoretical for me. Remember? My big money-making plan was whoring. Allow me to amend Adam's synopsis of academia: "teaching three boring-ass courses including an overloaded service course while desperately trying to publish something and pad my CV so as to be a good candidate for one of the two jobs that might open up next year if I'm lucky. In the meantime, begging for spare change in order to pay the bills."

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Oh, I forgot "juggling medications." That needs to fit in there somewhere too.

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But what I really meant to say was, privacy? For girls? Ya gotta be kidding.

(BTW, not to get all libertarian or anything, but since when is it the school's duty to limit drug and alcohol abuse?)

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You apparantly don't remember (or didn't experience) just how violent some guys in HS got when drunk and/or stoned.

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Drug and alcohol USE. On campus. Yes. Abuse, as in habits, no.

And yeah, I did have a guy maul me a bit in college, and it scared the crap out of me, frankly. But it never occurred to me that it was the college's responsibility. Always figured it was the guy's.

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I thought we were talking about HS, which is a different situation, no? Forced encounters between people, a relatively small environment, ect.. Also, I'm going to take a rather Platonic view that one should maintain an environment productive to learning, Alameida as a counterexample notwithstanding.

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too since no one was looking at him twice play blackjack Hey! Whats going on there.

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