Do the Faculty Dance

[lucretius]

So, finished new faculty orientation. Still can't get an ID card or get my official email running, but such is the nature of bureaucracy. I get the vague idea that someone in HR has a massive pile of Personnel Action Forms (the lifeblood of hiring, apparently), and have hoarded them, sitting on them like Gollum, and baring their teeth when people

Comments

[proprtyoftheman]

i think you should show up to class in leather chaps and a whip and tell your students you are going to serve them up pulp fiction style...that way they'll never leave.

[lucretius]

Among baboons, it's a popular way to assert dominance and cement social ties.

Among academics, not so much.

Well, maybe /some/ academics.