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mayhapTaking a break from my regularly-scheduled wibbling, sleeping, and lurching about incoherently to present you with this fine icon. I am, at any rate, rather fond of it. The writing ... and the sexy ... and the writing .... I didn't bother to watch more than the first fifteen minutes or so of the film when it was on, but I do love the image. Combine writing and sex, and I am there.
Almost certainly, tomorrow my university will be picketed by striking adjuncts, which should be interesting, to say the least. Especially since almost certainly, tomorrow it will rain. In one of my classes, we voted to meet with our small groups about our source paper in the student center in lieu of holding class. My other class wanted to meet in the park, although certainly everyone would be doing that if it were fair and no one can do it if it's foul, so it seems that the Gallatin administration has found alternate accommodations for us at Our Lady of Pompeii.
I'm pretty damn certain there will be a strike, since our administration shows nothing but scorn for their adjuncts (which is not to say that they do not scorn their full-time faculty, and it should go without saying that they scorn their students, and come to think of it I do not know whom they do not scorn). Their defense of their position in the matter seems to be nothing more than "everyone else is doing it". Well, obviously, you complete dolts. That's why your workers are organizing, because individually you can easily dump them for cheaper labor from a desperate market. I know you have a history department, but do you actually know anything about history?
Almost certainly, tomorrow my university will be picketed by striking adjuncts, which should be interesting, to say the least. Especially since almost certainly, tomorrow it will rain. In one of my classes, we voted to meet with our small groups about our source paper in the student center in lieu of holding class. My other class wanted to meet in the park, although certainly everyone would be doing that if it were fair and no one can do it if it's foul, so it seems that the Gallatin administration has found alternate accommodations for us at Our Lady of Pompeii.
I'm pretty damn certain there will be a strike, since our administration shows nothing but scorn for their adjuncts (which is not to say that they do not scorn their full-time faculty, and it should go without saying that they scorn their students, and come to think of it I do not know whom they do not scorn). Their defense of their position in the matter seems to be nothing more than "everyone else is doing it". Well, obviously, you complete dolts. That's why your workers are organizing, because individually you can easily dump them for cheaper labor from a desperate market. I know you have a history department, but do you actually know anything about history?
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Date: 2004-05-02 10:22 pm (UTC)Hope the strike wasn't too disruptive. I sympathize with adjuncts, but it's students who're affected most. (...I say this having struck alongside fellow GSIs, with the usual crisis of conscience as well as having had classes moved / rescheduled / canceled when I was an undergrad. Sucks to be anyone in this sort of situation, really.)
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Date: 2004-05-04 05:12 pm (UTC)