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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:39 pm
by _Doctor Steuss
Blixa wrote:I'll be back West this summer. Since I'll need to be in Southern Utah part of the time, maybe I can just go the extra coupla miles to Vegas...
If you make it, I have (
have) to take you to the Artisan. But, if you're in Southern Utah, I'm sure I can hop up your direction... I've traveled to Zion for lesser things.
moksha wrote:liz3564 wrote:You two are made for each other. We need to take up a collection to get Blixa and Steuss in the same room.
;)
You are such a wonderful Yenta. Maybe a nice room close to the library stacks of UNLV.
I like the Flamingo Library much better. In the basement is a largely unknown room where they sell used books.
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:07 pm
by _Blixa
Libraries rule.
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:11 pm
by _Doctor Steuss
Blixa wrote:Libraries rule.
Google drools.
(I have a friend who told me yesterday she is going to go to school to be a librarian. It made me wonder if being a librarian is like working at KFC. You love the product when you start, but you eventually end up hating it... what a tragedy to end up hating books the way that I hate fried chicken.)
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:50 pm
by _Bond...James Bond
Doctor Steuss wrote:Blixa wrote:Libraries rule.
Google drools.
(I have a friend who told me yesterday she is going to go to school to be a librarian. It made me wonder if being a librarian is like working at KFC. You love the product when you start, but you eventually end up hating it... what a tragedy to end up hating books the way that I hate fried chicken.)
I wonder the same thing. Seems like a shame to end up disliking something that originally was very important to oneself.
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:09 pm
by _Moniker
Bond...James Bond wrote:
I wonder the same thing. Seems like a shame to end up disliking something that originally was very important to oneself.
Ditto.....
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:46 pm
by _TrashcanMan79
Bond...James Bond wrote:Doctor Steuss wrote:Blixa wrote:Libraries rule.
Google drools.
(I have a friend who told me yesterday she is going to go to school to be a librarian. It made me wonder if being a librarian is like working at KFC. You love the product when you start, but you eventually end up hating it... what a tragedy to end up hating books the way that I hate fried chicken.)
I wonder the same thing. Seems like a shame to end up disliking something that originally was very important to oneself.
Precisely why I will never become a gynecologist.
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:06 am
by _Doctor Steuss
TrashcanMan79 wrote:Precisely why I will never become a gynecologist.
Can't... breathe...
Brilliant.
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:19 am
by _asbestosman
TrashcanMan79 wrote:Precisely why I will never become a gynecologist.
Precisely why I will never be a computer engineer.
Oh wait . . .
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:27 am
by _ludwigm
Doctor Steuss wrote:TrashcanMan79 wrote:Precisely why I will never become a gynecologist.
Can't... breathe...
Brilliant.
There are occupational risks. The wife of the anesthesiologist feel nothing.
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:16 am
by _Blixa
ludwigm wrote:Doctor Steuss wrote:TrashcanMan79 wrote:Precisely why I will never become a gynecologist.
Can't... breathe...
Brilliant.
There are occupational risks. The wife of the anesthesiologist feel nothing.
heh.
Well, I have to admit I'm bloody sick of teaching at the moment. I thought I would be all fired up after having the sabbatical, but my energy levels are sapped. I taught that Wilfred Owen poem "Dulce et Decorum est" last week and in the middle of reading it aloud realized that the first time I taught that poem was 30 years ago. I felt like dropping dead right there on the spot. But no, I don't hate reading and learning. I just hate the institutional limitations of teaching. Most of the time it seems like school is arranged to actively prevent learning...