I'd like to take a page from Jay and Silent Bob here.

[bzarcher]

Fuck, fuck, mutha mutha fuck, mutha mutha fuck fuck, mutha fuck, mutha fuck, nooch nooch nooch. One two, one two three four, nooch, nooch, nooch! Shmokin weed, shmokin wizz, doin coke, drinking beers. Drinking Beers beers beers. Rollin fatties, smoking Blunts. Who smokes the blunts, who smoke the blunts. With all respect and honor given to Kevin Smith and the View Askew Crew

Okay, that was mostly just to get the urge to say "fuck" out. Plus, it's a fun song to say out loud.

Work sucked, mainly because a woman who is more important because of who her husband is than what she does never bothered to backup her -real- work, just her resumes, and when she blew up her computer, corrupted all her data, and I had to reimage it, she brought a lot of shit and heat down, as did her husband.

However, the department fought back, and went to bat for me, and I can't ask for more than that.

Classes: Not bad.

Thesis: Research design approved before I even left the Advisor's office. :D I even get to use Excel Saga as part of it. Neat, huh? 20 books ordered, more at the library already to go look for it.

D&D game starts next Wed., making a Shadowrun character for a game Monday. :D

Of course, lots of freshmen constantly coming for computer help is starting to get annoying, and Ben's noticing it too....I think an announcement will be made at G-board to not come by after certain hours, or if the door's closed.

Mmm...closed doors...

Anyhow.

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[lanthinel.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of Bettina, the German prof I had in the spring. She was hired 8-something years ago, on the pretense that her doctoral thesis would be done in 6 months (as the position required a PhD).

Oh, and the only reason she was considered was because her husband, tenured in the RTVF department with a different last name, wrote her letter of recommendation. At the interview, apparently, one of her references was some doctor somewhere who when asked what her thesis was about replied "Well, we haven't seen anything yet, but I'm sure it'll be great."

In the entirety of her 8 years at 'NT...she never finished the thesis. She "redefined the focus" of her thesis 4 years ago (apparently she was doing something about Berlin, and then changed it to something inanely specific about Berlin).

Her general attitude about class was "Hey, it's an easy paycheck -- all I have to do is show up, spack something, and give grades out." She was quoted at various points as to admitting that she came up with lesson plans 5 minutes before class. When she had her second kid in the spring, the department got a concise idea of what the hell she'd been doing up until that point when certain interested parties (*cough cough*) told other German profs what we were doing in her class so that they could figure out what the hell to do with her classes for a week that wouldn't result in entire sections marching to the dean's office to complain about her or the class.

After the kid, her attendence was sporadic...and she often brought him to her classes earlier in the day. Being an infant, said child would begin crying about half-way through class -- so she'd send the class down to the computer lab to look busy -- while also giving her a reasonable excuse to not bother with the banality of teaching.

Now she is gone, thankfully. No one in the department was really all that sad to see her go. Apparently she fled the state.

But yeah, another example, I guess, of something similar. UNT has a lot of married couples as profs in different departments with different last names.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Yeah, in this case, the husband used to be a Greek professor, then got made a Dean, then got made the VP of Academic Affairs.

The wife supposedly runs the international programs office, study abroad, etx.

But she's -very- good at backing up her resume.

[sugarymalice.livejournal.com]

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Well, we do aim to please, mm?