Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Dear College Tenure Committee

According to the calendar of deadlines the University provided me with last fall, my deadline to respond to your report and recommendation regarding my tenure & promotion decision is this Friday, 5 p.m.

When may I expect your report?

Sincerely,

Notorious Ph.D.

4 comments:

clio's disciple said...

They haven't told you yet? Procratinating jerks!

Word verification: "ethipybo," which sounds to me like some sort of tropical snake.

Anonymous said...

Good luck, good luck, good luck!

Notorious Ph.D. said...

Thanks. I told my chair, and she's going to prod the appropriate parties.

@CD: a tropical snake with an ailment of some sort.

Dr. S said...

Effin' A.

My word verification is the appropriate-sounding "flensub." As in, what one does when one's institution doesn't deliver news in appropriate time.

And now, I have to do a second one, because apparently I spelled flensub wrong. Now it's "bodisser." I don't think I need to tell anyone what *that* means.

WTF? A third word verification? Maybe the system knows I'm making fun of it.