[Russell Crowe]

TPol123, on Mar 26 2009, 08:09 PM, said:

Gaaah. 25-26 hours.

i'm pretty sure that was a keanu reeves movie.

[aklaus]

Russell Crowe, on Mar 26 2009, 06:05 PM, said:

oh speaking of money stuff. you know how i posted that email last night about class sections getting cut cause the school doesn't have the money to pay professors? Yeah well guess what the front page story in today's paper was?

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2009/mar/25/k...-246-mi/?sports


Yeah... looks like a tough budget crunch for our school.

It's all about priorities.

poko, on Mar 26 2009, 06:07 PM, said:

You should consider making a move to texas/houston. Sure it's got negatives like 'it's texas' but it also has possitives like more jobs and BF.

That's actually a distinct possibility. Like, this summer, when I get my next student pay check with which to cover the moving expenses. Probably not Houston though, I'm looking closer to BF's area.

[Russell Crowe]

aklaus, on Mar 26 2009, 08:11 PM, said:

It's all about priorities.

i just keep thinking "how many frigging professors could you pay with 24 million dollars?"

[Shodar]

Apocalypse, on Mar 26 2009, 09:06 PM, said:

Once again, pics or it didn't happen.
I'm not sure how cuteness can "happen," but the internet mandate still stands.

I don't have any good pictures lately. Been taking scenic shots instead. But

1. in which you can see up my nose


2. in which we discover why the blue/green silky shirt made the bf happy

poko, on Mar 26 2009, 09:07 PM, said:

You should consider making a move to texas/houston. Sure it's got negatives like 'it's texas' but it also has possitives like more jobs and BF.

But it's Texas

[aklaus]

Russell Crowe, on Mar 26 2009, 06:12 PM, said:

i just keep thinking "how many frigging professors could you pay with 24 million dollars?"

Or books or journal subscriptions for the library, or...you know...other educational stuff?

[Apocalypse]

Shodar, on Mar 26 2009, 08:14 PM, said:

I don't have any good pictures lately. Been taking scenic shots instead. But

1. in which you can see up my nose


2. in which we discover why the blue/green silky shirt made the bf happy



But it's Texas

Ok, we have pics. Something can definitively be said to have happened here.

Gar I have a Hamlet paper to write. So I need to go write it now.

[aklaus]

Shodar, on Mar 26 2009, 06:14 PM, said:

But it's Texas

What I've experienced of Texas, I've found preferable to Arizona. In Arizona, my radio has gotten stolen twice and my car vandalized three times; in Texas, none of the above.

[Russell Crowe]

aklaus, on Mar 26 2009, 08:14 PM, said:

Or books or journal subscriptions for the library, or...you know...other educational stuff?

that is just crazy talk right there. then the library might actually have the books I want to read

aklaus, on Mar 26 2009, 08:16 PM, said:

What I've experienced of Texas, I've found preferable to Arizona. In Arizona, my radio has gotten stolen twice and my car vandalized three times; in Texas, none of the above.

Texas was cool. for the three days I experienced it. except dallas. dallas can kiss my butt

[aklaus]

Russell Crowe, on Mar 26 2009, 06:21 PM, said:

that is just crazy talk right there. then the library might actually have the books I want to read

OMG

Russell Crowe, on Mar 26 2009, 06:21 PM, said:

Texas was cool. for the three days I experienced it. except dallas. dallas can kiss my butt

Oh, was that where you couldn't find a corkscrew?

[Russell Crowe]

aklaus, on Mar 26 2009, 08:22 PM, said:

Oh, was that where you couldn't find a corkscrew?

no that was where i almost got run over by three million crazy people in giant trucks who all wanted to be driving in the exact spot that my vehicle happened to be in

[poko]

I very much doubt you'll find Texas schools an improvement but again, there will be work.


Hmmm all of Get Smart for 11 bucks.

[Russell Crowe]

Texas did have those billboards about every thirty feet with the whole "Want to teach in Texas? When can you start?" thing on it. So yeah i expect they might be looking for teachers

[WeatherManNX01]

Russell Crowe, on Mar 26 2009, 09:05 PM, said:

oh speaking of money stuff. you know how i posted that email last night about class sections getting cut cause the school doesn't have the money to pay professors? Yeah well guess what the front page story in today's paper was?

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2009/mar/25/k...-246-mi/?sports


Yeah... looks like a tough budget crunch for our school.

I have no problems doing things like that if you can give me a good reason why. The best I could get from the article was "because it would be awesome", which doesn't really fly with me. Certainly not for that money.

Russell Crowe, on Mar 26 2009, 09:12 PM, said:

i just keep thinking "how many frigging professors could you pay with 24 million dollars?"

Ah, you do have to be careful with that, though. That $24 million does not necessarily belong to the university as a whole. Athletics money is generally just that - athletics money, and it is entirely separate from the academics. Also, if you read closely, the money is not coming from the university, but from fundraising.

Finally, who the hell named a building after Anschutz? Phillip Anschutz can kiss my ass.

[aklaus]

Russell Crowe, on Mar 26 2009, 06:25 PM, said:

no that was where i almost got run over by three million crazy people in giant trucks who all wanted to be driving in the exact spot that my vehicle happened to be in

Ah. See, we were going around in one of those giant trucks, so the other giant trucks actually saw us and didn't try to kill us.

poko, on Mar 26 2009, 06:25 PM, said:

I very much doubt you'll find Texas schools an improvement but again, there will be work.

Actually...I heard from a student's mom who had lived in both states that even Texas beat Arizona. Also, I'd probably be looking in less metropolitan areas...there's bound to at least be less of the gang-bangery kids that way.

[Russell Crowe]

aklaus, on Mar 26 2009, 08:30 PM, said:

Ah. See, we were going around in one of those giant trucks, so the other giant trucks actually saw us and didn't try to kill us.

yeah.. i was in a small truck. all of the rugged masculine redneckiness, but with better fuel efficiency

[aklaus]

Russell Crowe, on Mar 26 2009, 06:27 PM, said:

Texas did have those billboards about every thirty feet with the whole "Want to teach in Texas? When can you start?" thing on it. So yeah i expect they might be looking for teachers

Yeah...the particular program those boards are advertising isn't any help to me, but...I'm hoping.

WeatherManNX01, on Mar 26 2009, 06:28 PM, said:

Athletics money is generally just that - athletics money, and it is entirely separate from the academics. Also, if you read closely, the money is not coming from the university, but from fundraising.

Semantics. The priorities of the university are represented in what they budget and fundraise for.

Russell Crowe, on Mar 26 2009, 06:31 PM, said:

yeah.. i was in a small truck. all of the rugged masculine redneckiness, but with better fuel efficiency

...and added likelihood of getting killed

[Russell Crowe]

aklaus, on Mar 26 2009, 08:34 PM, said:

...and added likelihood of getting killed

hence why i drive really fast so as to dodge all the bigger vehicles

[Russell Crowe]

s'okay, you guys don't have to talk. i'm just gonna listen to Whiskey in the Jar and play internet chess.

[TPol123]

*sigh*

[Russell Crowe]

TPol123, on Mar 26 2009, 08:47 PM, said:

*sigh*

do tell.