property wrangling

Man, I swear I need to plant a NC state flag in front of the door to the Greek and Latin reading room in the library, because I am really tired of people randomly coming in there to do Lord knows what. Those of y'all who knew me in my undergrad and redheaded stepchild post-bacc days will remember that I had a certain amount of possessiveness in my nature when it came to the common room, and damn it, same goes here! The only people in the RR should be me, Simon and Alex since they have seniority, or the few visiting professors who come in there to work sometimes. I will stretch the rules to include that history grad who's been in there, because he is a) quiet and b) uncaring whether the rest of us are quiet, but seriously? All the little hoi polloi undergrads need to stay the fuck out. :P

And yes, that was petulant. I'm a little annoyed today...there was a departmental meeting wherein we were all expecting to find out who were were hiring, so we all went in with our fingers crossed for Beneker, but it turns out the damn meeting was just to tell us not to change the background on the computer in the Pillinger. Meh, I say.

So as not to be entirely negative, I leave you with a link to the genius that is Troy in Fifteen Minutes. I love that girl, I really do. Great things come out of Alabama, as I'm sure a former TA of mine will attest.