My workplace, side view
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"Noam Chomsky was my thesis advisor and he called me a talking pile of pig shit and that was when my parents drove all the way from Michigan to see me graduate. And did I cry? No. Do you know why? Because. There's no crying in Linguistics. There's no crying!"
@fuz: It's not even plugged into anything. Its sister is, though.
HAhah, that is what you were telling me about? You are such a nerd, I love it.
oh, this makes me yearn for my MA days. Not my PhD days; they were no fun. But in my MA days, we had MC Hammer dolls and Action men acting out important historic moments. And freaky kitty pictures
@purl: We're still considering making a poster (or shirt) that says CEILING CAT IS WATCHING YOU CONJUGATE.
@ two-headed boy: We had a t-shirt made up that had the Jerome painting from the cover of Said's "Orientalism" with the word "Sorry" printed underneath.
There was some talk of everyone getting "I'm a postmodernist" in the language of their field put on a shirt, but we never got around to it.
This makes me almost miss being in that department.
Then I remember, "I sleep now, and I'm sane." :D
"Ceiling cat is watching you conjugate" is fucking hilarious.
After you conjugate, do you get a sore on your lip that prevents you from speaking properly?
@Tive: Did you see the shirts that Yinzling printed out this year? So many people want one that they're considering a second printing.

Not seen: "There's no crying in Linguistics!" We added that after we learned that people had been using the fort as a Cry Box after particularly brutal classes.