tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164185959238733667.post368526187606110297..comments2023-09-29T04:22:04.132-07:00Comments on Quills: Office!Fretful Porpentinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11165078003123517013noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164185959238733667.post-34417143618609997112007-08-17T07:31:00.000-07:002007-08-17T07:31:00.000-07:00Oh, thanks! I might have to add those two.Oh, thanks! I might have to add those two.Fretful Porpentinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11165078003123517013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164185959238733667.post-68213912640348493222007-08-16T19:10:00.000-07:002007-08-16T19:10:00.000-07:00Anent university/teaching-related poems, I am inor...Anent university/teaching-related poems, I am inordinately font of <A HREF="http://angevin2.livejournal.com/326842.html" REL="nofollow">this poem</A>, myself. Also the second one in <A HREF="http://angevin2.livejournal.com/322594.html" REL="nofollow">this post.</A>Leahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07249532247015252188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164185959238733667.post-26889698928558020812007-08-12T11:22:00.000-07:002007-08-12T11:22:00.000-07:00Hi, Lucky Jane! (Great name, by the way.)... Oh, ...Hi, Lucky Jane! (Great name, by the way.)<BR/><BR/>... Oh, right, the <I>other</I> kind of window -- somehow I missed that when I read Bardiac's post for the first time. Heh, those have got to be the strangest design feature ever; I wonder what they're supposed to be for?Fretful Porpentinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11165078003123517013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164185959238733667.post-12727450340466674202007-08-12T07:55:00.000-07:002007-08-12T07:55:00.000-07:00Hi! I found your site recently and am enjoying you...Hi! I found your site recently and am enjoying your reflections on the new environs. Congratulations the office and the move!<BR/><BR/>Like Bardiac's, my first grownup office had a window in the door. The office was also tiny, so I couldn't move the desk into a position where I wouldn't be startled every time someone looked in. Because the office was in a blind corner at the end of a hallway, people couldn't help looking in. After two weeks of surveillance, I started covering the windows with tea towels. I remember swapping out the Mappa Mundi for the Smithsonian's portraits of the 43 presidents. There was also one of the Krebs cycle. Since I was only a VAP, it was just as well that no one could figure out what I taught.<BR/><BR/>My current, windowless door is pristine, as is every other office door on my floor. It's a dreary sight, especially without students bustling through. Anyway, thanks for the misty, watercolor memories. Congrats and good luck!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164185959238733667.post-83596545211541944742007-08-10T07:36:00.000-07:002007-08-10T07:36:00.000-07:00Oh yes, I've got a window, and not one of those li...Oh yes, I've got a window, and not one of those little vertical slits we had in grad school. (The campus where I got my graduate degrees has some real beauty spots, but the English building is NOT one of them; it's one of those concrete-block monstrosities built circa 1970, and the windows are mostly suitable for pouring boiling oil on student protesters.)Fretful Porpentinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11165078003123517013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164185959238733667.post-56981109071805765072007-08-10T07:19:00.000-07:002007-08-10T07:19:00.000-07:00Congrats!Does yours have a window? Ours do. We f...Congrats!<BR/><BR/>Does yours have a window? Ours do. We faculty folk spend a lot of creative energy blocking out the window so people don't stare at us while we're working. Or something.<BR/><BR/>My first all alone office was in an old frat house that had been kicked out for (sexual) misbehavior. The downstairs was the writing center; second floor, the bedrooms had been converted to our English dept offices. I can't tell you how creepy it was, given the history, to have some old guy come in during homecoming and say that my office had been his bedroom.Bardiachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164185959238733667.post-91069483463729696962007-08-09T15:25:00.000-07:002007-08-09T15:25:00.000-07:00Heh, I've already got that one, actually! I was g...Heh, I've already got that one, actually! I was going to post it, but I thought it was a little too long.Fretful Porpentinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11165078003123517013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164185959238733667.post-20791539961891198952007-08-09T15:02:00.000-07:002007-08-09T15:02:00.000-07:00Congrats on your new office! Here's another poem f...Congrats on your new office! <BR/><BR/>Here's another poem for your door: http://www.library.utoronto.ca/<BR/>canpoetry/wayman/poem5.htm<BR/><BR/>It's on mine!<BR/><BR/>roaringgrrlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com