Comments on: Why St. Edmund is my Favorite Saint (and why I quit academia while I was ahead) http://meetzorp.com/2008/03/13/why-st-edmund-is-my-favorite-saint-and-why-i-quit-academia-while-i-was-ahead/ "If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" - Florence King Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:16:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Alex http://meetzorp.com/2008/03/13/why-st-edmund-is-my-favorite-saint-and-why-i-quit-academia-while-i-was-ahead/#comment-887 Alex Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:44:52 +0000 http://meetzorp.wordpress.com/?p=851#comment-887 What do you mean threaten? I'm sure I managed to get a few of them in there - not to mention "liminality" that was the buzz word for a while wasn't it?! Hmmmm... don't think I took it seriously enough either - the nonsense was half the fun. That and drinking lots, prancing around in silly costumes, drinking more and getting to swear in an OE/ME accent! Sorry I've not been in touch in forever - life is crazy! Email is on its way - promise! Oh and huge congratulations! xx What do you mean threaten? I’m sure I managed to get a few of them in there - not to mention “liminality” that was the buzz word for a while wasn’t it?!

Hmmmm… don’t think I took it seriously enough either - the nonsense was half the fun.

That and drinking lots, prancing around in silly costumes, drinking more and getting to swear in an OE/ME accent!

Sorry I’ve not been in touch in forever - life is crazy! Email is on its way - promise! Oh and huge congratulations!
xx

]]> By: meetzorp http://meetzorp.com/2008/03/13/why-st-edmund-is-my-favorite-saint-and-why-i-quit-academia-while-i-was-ahead/#comment-846 meetzorp Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:31:34 +0000 http://meetzorp.wordpress.com/?p=851#comment-846 Oh yes, the Steaming Pile. I don't think we had an official name for it, but some of us from the CMS used to get drunk and make shit up that sounded kind of erudite (basically we said "epistemology" and "dichotomy" a lot) and threaten to integrate our drunken raving into our next papers. Drink is the great equivocator, eh? Oh yes, the Steaming Pile. I don’t think we had an official name for it, but some of us from the CMS used to get drunk and make shit up that sounded kind of erudite (basically we said “epistemology” and “dichotomy” a lot) and threaten to integrate our drunken raving into our next papers.

Drink is the great equivocator, eh?

]]> By: sgazzetti http://meetzorp.com/2008/03/13/why-st-edmund-is-my-favorite-saint-and-why-i-quit-academia-while-i-was-ahead/#comment-845 sgazzetti Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:29:01 +0000 http://meetzorp.wordpress.com/?p=851#comment-845 It is indeed a most excellent and thorough martyring. And it is 'hogwash' like this story, taken all literally, that makes it hard for me to take the whole religion thing at all seriously. In such context, the idea of a benevolent airborne pasta-based creator is not farfetched. The "jargonistic doubletalk" you mention had a special name in the office I shared with a few other grad students when it came to writing papers: The Steaming Pile. We would purposely make edit our text to be as incomprehensible as possible. The more obtuse, the higher the grade. Come to think of it, Steaming Pile comes pretty close to admitting that "everyone is sniffing everyone else’s butt... and...they all think it stinks". Academia does suck. But Aedmund obviously rules, even if not over the <i>flotman</i>. It is indeed a most excellent and thorough martyring. And it is ‘hogwash’ like this story, taken all literally, that makes it hard for me to take the whole religion thing at all seriously. In such context, the idea of a benevolent airborne pasta-based creator is not farfetched.

The “jargonistic doubletalk” you mention had a special name in the office I shared with a few other grad students when it came to writing papers: The Steaming Pile. We would purposely make edit our text to be as incomprehensible as possible. The more obtuse, the higher the grade. Come to think of it, Steaming Pile comes pretty close to admitting that “everyone is sniffing everyone else’s butt… and…they all think it stinks”.

Academia does suck. But Aedmund obviously rules, even if not over the flotman.

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