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Out to dinner with my daughter and get a text:

"You look so handsome tonight. You should get dressed up more often."

Daughter: So.....?

Me: She's just being nice.

Daughter:

Winter of Our Disco Tent: Lounge LC Thread

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02-09-2024 , 07:01 PM

#227

mrbaseball

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Happy Friday! Drink 'em if you got 'em. Winters almost over (I hope?). Just got home earlier this week from my "break up winter" trip and it has been springlike here. 50's in february is always nice. The first half of January sucked with lots of snow and bitter cold. Only a couple of weeks until March so I am hoping the worst of it is in the rear view mirror.

02-09-2024 , 07:17 PM

#228

biggerboat

you're gonna need one

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Anniversary dinner for me.

02-09-2024 , 07:31 PM

#229

mrbaseball

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Happy Anniversary!

02-09-2024 , 07:44 PM

#230

lastcardcharlie

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It's the year of the Wood Dragon.

02-09-2024 , 08:27 PM

#231

John Cole

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Quote:

Originally Posted by biggerboat

Anniversary dinner for me.

Happy Anniversary

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02-09-2024 , 08:31 PM

#232

John Cole

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Just spent four hours in a Zoom meeting, the last hour trying to help a fairly new department chair.

More and more I believe that all English departments are full of crazy people. There's forty-five of us and probably fewer than ten are sane. Just to set the record straight, I am one of ten.

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02-09-2024 , 09:14 PM

#233

Dominic

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I agree completely. And the poets are the craziest.

02-09-2024 , 09:14 PM

#234

Dominic

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seriously, we always have fights between the poets, non-fiction, and creative writing profs. Mostly about money allocation and new hires.

02-09-2024 , 09:24 PM

#235

rickroll

oddly catty

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Quote:

Originally Posted by John Cole

Just to set the record straight, I am one of ten.

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your signature is strong evidence to the contrary

02-09-2024 , 09:28 PM

#236

REDeYeS00

always sloppy

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Quote:

Originally Posted by biggerboat

Anniversary dinner for me.

assuming marriage?
interesting choice lumping it within a week of valentines. i suppose you won't forget either.
now imagine if her birthday was on sunday

02-09-2024 , 10:02 PM

#237

John Cole

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Dominic

seriously, we always have fights between the poets, non-fiction, and creative writing profs. Mostly about money allocation and new hires.

Many of ours think they are incredibly gifted when we have over a hundred adjuncts with similar qualifications. Most of us, me included, are extraordinarily lucky.

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02-09-2024 , 10:03 PM

#238

John Cole

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Quote:

Originally Posted by rickroll

your signature is strong evidence to the contrary

Okay, I'll give you that.

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02-10-2024 , 01:05 AM

#239

Phat Mack

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Dominic

seriously, we always have fights between the poets, non-fiction, and creative writing profs. Mostly about money allocation and new hires.

What do the non-fiction people do?

02-10-2024 , 12:11 PM

#240

golddog

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Originally Posted by John Cole

Did you watch Lucky Hank ? Bob Odenkirk's post-Saul show, he's the chair of an English department at a small college in PA.

Think it had two seasons, not sure if going to return for more or if it's done.

02-10-2024 , 01:29 PM

#241

John Cole

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Originally Posted by golddog

I watched it, but I much, much prefer the novel it's based on, Straight Man by Richard Russo. The show does capture part of the insanity of an English department.

I've been both the English department chair and a dean, so I've seen my share of insanity. We had 54 full time faculty and over a hundred adjuncts when I was chair. When I was the dean (twice), we had around 150 full time faculty and 300 or so adjuncts in the division.

Hank was lucky. He only had to deal with a handful of faculty.

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02-10-2024 , 01:34 PM

#242

John Cole

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I just need to say that the phrase "we can agree to disagree" makes me unhinged. If I disagree with someone, I disagree and I ain't agreeing to anything.

Maybe I'm just getting cranky in my old age.

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02-10-2024 , 01:46 PM

#243

Zeno

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I thought the Faculty are there for the students benefit.

02-10-2024 , 01:49 PM

#244

Zeno

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Happy New Year. I think it is the year of the Dragon. A good omen.

02-10-2024 , 03:44 PM

#245

John Cole

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Zeno

I thought the Faculty are there for the students benefit.

Many are. Many are there for a job.

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02-10-2024 , 04:14 PM

#246

Dominic

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Phat Mack

What do the non-fiction people do?

lol they write non-ficton

02-10-2024 , 08:35 PM

#247

REDeYeS00

always sloppy

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are faculty there for themself or the student

02-10-2024 , 08:39 PM

#248

Phat Mack

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Dominic

lol they write non-ficton

OK. Confusing for me. I thought that maybe they taught writing non-fiction, which seems crazy to me. I haven't had to deal with an English department in 50 years and didn't know what they were up to. I know that John McPhee teaches non-fiction writing at Princeton, but that may be the only course like it in the States.

02-10-2024 , 08:46 PM

#249

John Cole

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Plenty of schools offer non-fiction. Frank Conroy taught at Iowa and wrote one of the great American memoirs, Stop-Time. You would love it.

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02-10-2024 , 08:51 PM

#250

John Cole

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I didn't feel like cooking tonight, so I'm at one of the local bars. The piano player always has people come up and sing with him (I did it once). Tonight Jack was singing. Jack is at least ninety and uses a walker, so it takes him a few minutes to get up to the front.

The world is a beautiful place.

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