"Jeremy's the best sociologist in the world." --Ann Althousebut, now:
"Jeremy is the Italy of academia: unstable and seemingly chaotic governance structure; mysteriously still the seventh largest economy in the world." -- Kieran Healy
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
you can be 'it', but i get to be 'italy'
Here I was thinking potential blurbs about myself would never get any better than:
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Does this mean that, in H-ll, you will be President?
That's an awesome comment. So right on, for both!
congratulations on your new job
Funny, but when I was looking at graduate programs, Kieran's quote is almost EXACTLY how UChicago was described to me.
I wonder, Jeremy, if you actually worked in more stable/less chaotic way if your productivity would actually go up or down!
Then again, I think your standard of "unstable/seemingly chaotic" (not your words, I know!) is one that the rest of us might think of as incredibly hard working and disciplined. Hard to imagine? Think of what life is like in MY head!
I thought it was a sly reference to the Diplomacy board game...
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