No time to tell you want I was doing. Only time to show you. I went skiing on Saturday with Larry and Hillel. My first time in 20 years, and I was scared. It took only one run to get the technique back.
There was also an interesting event with chairs. Hillel didn't like me sitting on the student chair all day, and thought I whould have a professor's chair. But the admin said no. They thought I might spill coffee on it. So I got a researcher's chair. I'll spill coffee on it for them.
The day before, Larry took me for a tour around town, and we saw some animals. I took pictures for yuka.
Kenny's here now. I'll get a picture up, when he stops spinning out.
Posted by jason at February 09, 2003 08:49 PMI'm struggling to understand chair hierarchy. Perhaps you could write a report?
Posted by: aleja on February 10, 2003 01:22 AMPart of the opaque clarity that is administration.
Posted by: jason on February 10, 2003 04:14 AMwell, you see, if jason were to spill coffee on one of the faculty chairs, a future new faculty member would be quite upset that he or she was getting a coffee stained faculty chair.
everyone here knows that coffee stained chairs signify being lower down on the pecking order. that means that you aren't ever allowed to sit at tables with other faculty members in the lunchroom or at the three hour faculty meetings where the president is fond of using the phrase "please understand" when he decides to circumvent the rules.
See, the president's chair is made of coffee resistant fabric, so that he can spill all he likes without fear of reprisals. this type of chair was developed under a special grant to the people in the complex systems department, who, like thomas edison and the light bulb, spend countless hours finding coffee resistant fabrics, and ways to get people to do a lot of work for no particular reason...but they can look at all this random work and eventually find a pattern and travel to london to tell others about the spillage patterns on the chairs at FUN.
Is that clear?
Posted by: larry on February 12, 2003 08:02 PMJust wierd intelligent! (perhaps you that's what you meant)
Posted by: Joe J. Doe on February 17, 2003 02:01 PM