Sargoth (skateboard aspect) @Sargoth@scholar.social

"I must admit I am intrigued by this candidate's use of Habermas' critique of Weber's concept of rationality in the context of speedrunning. However, what really made them click for me was that one summer gig they had at 7-Eleven three years ago"

I just realized there might have been a typo in that application I sent in yesterday, and I'm not gonna check

"mastodon user sargoth, do you think your applications would be met with more success if you resisted the urge to utterly deconstruct the application process by abusing the tools of the discipline?"
none whatsoever

tfw you find a PhD program that initially sounds like a perfect fit, but then turns out to be in a very different field than the first impression implied

in which I livetweet listening to an audiobook version of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

it is a strange, strange book
https://twitter.com/sargoth/status/1244649887586811904

Become the null hypothesis you want to see in the world

looking back on my initial post, I realize it did not convey the specifics of the generality of the job posting
it did not consist of a "we need an IT manager" in general. it consisted of "we need a person who can do these things", followed by a very detailed enumeration of things that needed to be done. to call it "all the things" would be perfectly accurate

to boot: they all needed to be done at speed

my university just posted a position for a very, very, very general IT management person

my local university library has closed
alas
I will have to make due with the 40-odd books I've already checked out

The combined forces of reason and science: don't touch your face
Face: *instantly turns into an erogenous zone of previously undiscovered potential*

or
who you do not have to crank up your productivity knob to 11 whilst working from home
http://discursiveanomalies.com/2020/03/20/byung-chul-han-the-burnout-society/

under conditions of anonymity, ask former students for such resources. they will have 'em

the effects of self-quarantine in general, and the difference the presence of a cat had for long term mental health in particular

*has two different programs in mind to top off a degree in being*
*looks closer at one of said programs, and notices it has dramatically different eligibility criteria than I remember*
welp
this sure simplifies things, doesn't it

This is a shoutout to Foucault scholars who become confused when people tell them that their Corona fearmongering has material effects

I hope this email finds you.

with every application, there is a drop-down menu asking where you first saw the job posting. it does not include the helpful RSS feed

this amuses me, who sees 'em all through the helpful RSS feed

Good thing that happened on campus:
a student used one of the blue doors, pushing against years of superstition about common folk not being allowed to use 'em

it would be tempting to claim that my years of openly and brazenly using said doors, whilst loudly proclaiming that it is indeed allowed, contributed to this groundbreaking development. however, I do not have sufficient empirical evidence for this, so I'll settle for the pleasure of seeing it happen