This weekend I recieved a 13 dollar check. Two persons/entities have purchase xeroxed copies of my dissertation. Though I do appreciate the money, I do, I do. I would love to get ahold of the purchasers and let them know that they wasted their money. That what they are reading is a simple academic exercise, an extended and prolonged hazing process.
In other news, my golf game yesterday, wasn’t too bad. I lost five balls and found 15. This is how I judge the quality of my play.
The same post, put another way:
SUCKERS!
by greg—Jun 20, 07:40 AM
Seriously, that’s not a bad return, is it? $6.50 per copy seems a decent value, although it’s nothing close to making up for the time and effort and money you put into the thing…
by greg—Jun 20, 07:42 AM
One of my professors commented to me about a month ago (while I was still pregnant) that writing a dissertation was like pregnancy, only with a longer gestation period, say, 2 years, like an elephant’s. I’ve decided therefore to refer to my project hereafter as my “elephant’s child.” But Elephant Child is on hold till I get the hang of the human child thing…
thanks for the well wishes!
by JTB—Jun 20, 06:13 PM
I recently had a column I wrote for the Daily Idiot reprinted in an obscure lefty librarian magazine called Counterpoise. The DI paid me $16.50 to write this column. They charged me $10 for permission to have it reprinted elsewhere. . . I guess I still came out ahead.
by Laura—Jun 20, 06:17 PM
wait. so you’re saying there are magazines that both are for
socialistslibrarians and are obscure? no. way.by greg—Jun 20, 10:05 PM
laura, that was a lovely essay… too bad the iowan (greedy bastards!) didn’t let you print it your lefty mag without demanding payment.
by Jeremy—Jun 21, 05:48 PM
J, thank you (I am just now getting back to check out the happenings in the Hermitage while I was away—more on that later).
G, I’m not even going to go into a reply. . . .
by Laura—Jun 30, 04:48 PM
I didn’t think you would. ;)
by greg—Jun 30, 09:52 PM