Today’s adventure was brought to you by
- Franz Kafka’s The Trial
- a Slate article about an upcoming Franz Kafka video game
- a fine example of gallows humor in “Twelve Fixed, Eternal Commandments for Academic Job Candidates“
- a blog post about a guy who thinks the longer an adjunct successfully teaches in his department, the less qualified s/he becomes to hold a tenure-track position there (see his point 9)
- Franz Kafka’s “A Message from the Emperor” (no copyrights were violated: the original German is in the public domain, and the translation, posted again here for better legibility, is my own)
- the letter A
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Reblogged this on Augie Prof in Progress and commented:
Sure it’s three-and-a-half days early for “Just for Fun”… but this one’s just for fun.
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Great, great stuff!! Can’t wait for more Academic Avenger, revealer of truths, slayer of university bullsh•t.
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Thanks, Paula! “Slayer of university bullsh•t” – sounds like we got ourselves a new motto!
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Ha,I love it! :p
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