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A post about academic bloggers over at Rate Your Students had me laughing so hard this morning that I teared up enough to have to reapply my eyeliner. Here's a snippet:
And I won't even get started on the whole insular world that is academic blogging, with all the above inanities tagging each other with memes. "I tag WonderProf and TeachingSuperstar with this newest meme: 5 authors you'd like to poke with a stick and 5 sexual positions you could get into where it'd be easiest to revise your un-sellable and boring dissertation."
I found it so incredibly funny because I see us in this post; I see myself. (Yes, I can and often do laugh at myself.) Check it out but be warned--don't have coffee in your mouth.
It is really funny -- and the reason I don't tag people...
It is bad enough that I post cat pictures, writing updates and whines about hubby and I not being able to get jobs in the same place...
I don't have a cat so I have to settle for dog pictures. Wah! I don't fit in with the cool kids!
He forgot to include the disturbing phenomenon of grown female academics making those sad little stick-thin, plate-eyed digital avatars for themselves.
Those things are so weak they barely make the MySpace cut; seeing them on academic blogs is just pathetic.
