Monday, August 13, 2007

asa rulz

I started today with the $28 (plus tax/tip) breakfast buffet, and am ending it now with a $26 (plus tax/tip) room service pizza.

BTW, I don't know if Fabio has this in his "grad school rulz", but while it's good to be able to describe your dissertation to another person in 2-3 sentences, those sentences should be delivered without using air quotation marks 5 or more times.

Also, the outgoing chair at Wisconsin came up to me and said people had been mentioning to her how I had linked to a couple of selections from her webpage in saying she should start a blog. She said, "You should have linked to my Hoops and Hurdles memo, that's my favorite one." We then discussed our favorite memos that she had sent out as chair, hers being the annual memo she send out regarding sexual harassment, mine being the memo she sent out to rally collective support for normative restraint as a solution to unsustainable growth in the cost of the free printing offered to graduate students (an approach was has basically worked; I thought about posting her memo along with a detailed rational choice analysis of the rhetorical strategy by which it worked).

I have enjoyed ASA, but I have not spent as much time interacting with several of those I would consider in my "most cherished circle" of sociology friends as I would have liked. Of course, every time I text Sal trying to get his whereabouts, his first response is always that he's out loitering in the parking lot.

6 comments:

dorotha said...

am i the only one for whom these links aren't working? just the blogger ones...

Ken Houghton said...

Hoops and Hurdles worked for me.

Did the blogger link ask you to sign in, too?

dorotha said...

yeah, i signed in, but it is still not working. well, the only one that doesn't work is the link about sal, but it sounds creepy anyway. whatevs. i will just go on with my life.

jeremy said...

I made a mistake with the link. Fixed.

dorotha said...

thank you for fixing that. was much less disturbing than i had thought it would be.

sal said...

now i'm loitering in a DC parking lot. :-)

yes, i too am sorry we didn't hang out and/or engaged in some blog-worthy asinine activity. ;-)

anyhow, i did learn an important lesson however, *you* are worth staying for my friend, everyone else not so much. lesson learned.