We may have vertical cuts at my university and I am slowly getting an interview wardrobe together. Today I bought these shoes. They had been marked down from $148 to $37, which I considered very good.
Axé.
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I tried to take a picture of the faux fur boots that Chipo bought for me in order to make me look more like an English woman. I don’t think the photo is worth uploading, and my temporary fascination with the illusionary nature of photography (change the light, and you effectively change the subject matter) is almost over.
I am aware that I totally do not know how to dress, Right now, I think I look very Russian, in Chipo’s boots, accompanied by baggy black easy to wear designer pants and a three-quarter body enveloping leather coat. No, I do not understand anything about fitting in with fashion conventions, even when what I am wearing is technically fashionable, in some senses. I will always look a little strange, a bit eccentric.
Vertical cuts as opposed to what other kind?
Horizontal! Vertical means they’re really paring down the institution, reducing programs permanently, firing tenured faculty, and targeting entire units for elimination.
Horizontal cuts would be to drop a class of workers across the board. Where I went to college, for instance, they dumped everyone at age 65 for a while.
This saved money since those people were the highest paid; they were replaced with new assistant professors.
I’m not saying this was good, necessarily, but it did mean entire units weren’t shut down.
I know how to dress, but can’t afford it! I want this leather biker jacket and V-neck ponte dress. Especially the dress. I’ve got a scarf like that and various shoes.
[Link in Nieman-Marcus catalog involving Eileen Fisher dress.]
I might need to start thinking in that direction too soon. 😦 Where shall we go if the cuts are as ubiquitous as I think they are, I have no idea.
Great shoes!!!
I think the sense in which I seem not to “know” how to dress is in that I do not seem to accentuate a feminine form. I like more boxy styles of clothing, generally.
I’m too short for boxy!
I’ve got these hips! But I’m tall. And I don’t slump.
By the way, you must have stumbled over some triple-X top secrets or something, in terms of the way somebody is reacting to you.
I want this dress, though [the Eileen Fisher dress] because I could put a different jacket over it and look professional, and not have to be in a skirt and blouse, I hate having to wear so many different pieces of clothes. I wonder if I can find it at a discount or have one made for less.
X, yes, I had reason to look some stuff up and I think the house sitters did, too — we had a hilarious conversation and all got curious. I guess we should have turned off javascript and logged out of everything, maybe we wouldn’t have been tracked. 😉
I am more interested in clothes porn, though, and I want all of the Eileen Fisher dresses (there are 2 pages of them in the Internet catalogue).
One of my favorite garments is an Eileen Fisher linen jacket in a subtle greyish-brown that goes with everything. I paid $150.00 for it, feeling angry at the cost, but it is my single most useful garment when I travel.
I’m telling you. Prices are high on her things but they turn out to be worth it. You have to find them on those half to 75% off sales. Even then they are expensive but they turn out to be worth it.
I would prefer natural fibres to viscose. I couldn’t open the url, though.
You know, if you use Internet Chrome as your browser, there is a “stealth” mode, but I haven’t really explored it very much.
Yes, those URLs turn out not to be stable, so I’ve killed them. Viscose travels a lot better than natural, is the thing, and job interviews in our field involve a lot of flying.
And I actually linked to this blog, of Emily Nagoski, Sex Nerd, so that may also help explain my traffic. http://enagoski.wordpress.com/ Partly I think people need to get more educated, and partly, I want to increase traffic.
Good luck.
I like viscose, which we call rayon. It’s very comfortable in warm weather and travels well. I bought myself some things in bright colors for the Caribbean Cruise I’m going on soon.
I have no idea how to dress for this cruise so am winging it. A neighbor advised me not to take too much and just buy stuff when I get there!
Yes, I like viscose & rayon too (I think of viscose as knit and rayon as not, but I’m not scientific). I’m sure your cruise wardrobe is good! Your neighbor means shop on board? It’s only a week! You’re fine, I’m sure! Wear what you’d wear in Hawaii!
I don’t think the rags I wear around the house would do, Prof. Z.
But I have a few nice things.
Sorry. Google Chrome.
Oh, it seems limited: browsing in incognito mode only keeps Google Chrome from storing information about the websites you’ve visited. The websites you visit may still have records of your visit. Any files saved to your computer will still remain on your computer. For example, if you sign into your Google Account on http://www.google.com while in incognito mode, your subsequent web searches are recorded in your Google Web History. In this case, to prevent your searches from being stored in your Google Account, you’ll need to pause your Google Web History tracking.
Yeah — I decided not to care — there are stronger anonymizers than that, too, so you are masked where you’re visiting — but by the time we’d started, and had gone to sites on debt relief, and alcoholism, and child abuse, and BDSM, and hadn’t anonymized or even logged out of our various university accounts, it was sort of hopeless. I realized too late, spent a few hours in shock, then decided that what’s done is done. I think I didn’t get a virus, at least.
This is horrible news. I’m so sorry. I’m cringing as I think of you hitting the job market now.
You’d think a tenured professor with years of experience wouldn’t have problems. Well, you, at least, could probably find something in a foreign country.
But shoes help.
Oh, I didn’t notice the Internet stuff. I just don’t understand any of the more elaborate things going on.
Yes – I don’t know what Jennifer’s using, but I don’t see hits to other blogs, just to mine; she sees spam and nasty comments before I do; I don’t look in my spam filter, even. How do you do it, Jennifer?
Jobs – well yes, we’ll see what happens.
I use caffeine, mostly, and flit around a lot.
Flit around, but where, avec quoi? 😉 On Blogger, I had a site meter that told me more than what I have on WordPress does.
Conventional stuff–internet explorer, mostly, and google chrome.
Those are browsers — what are the functions a *browser* has that let you see what kind of traffic another site is getting?
I’m not entirely sure what you are getting at. I don’t think browsers per se have those functions regarding other sites. You really need to put a statistics monitor on your web site if you want that kind of information.
I have one, although I think yours is a lot more powerful. My question is, what monitor or other software are you running? Because you’ve told me about spam comments that are in my filter, not on the site, and you know of hits I’m getting that I don’t know of.
I didn’t know of any hits you were getting, I don’t think. Really, I don’t have anything special. I just download my email every three minutes, and flit around very fast, so I see a lot of things. But it has nothing to do with my monitor or software.
I’m still fascinated. What e-mail program is that, then? How did you see that Russian spammer a few months ago, who was trying to get a comment onto this site – and finally got it into spam (but you knew about it before I did) … what software got you to this perception: “By the way, you must have stumbled over some triple-X top secrets or something, in terms of the way somebody is reacting to you.”
Why I care: if the connection to or within the house is so poorly secured then I should perhaps do something — re bank account, confidential letters of recommendation, things like this.
It’s just outlook express. I don’t think it is the answer to your problem. And I saw it because I was registered to receive emails from WordPress for a particular article you wrote. Also I was just making conjectures on the basis of the other person’s overreaction. I was trying to support you, because there is always a reason for an overreaction, and it is usually because someone is feeling threatened. So it was psychological sleuthing, not technological the same that got me to that conclusion.
Aha … then it may just come from the day we decided to Investigate. We did even less to hide ourselves than we thought we had, which wasn’t much! Various purveyors of dark erotica, and some banks and treatment centers, have been pursuing me since. Always think security on computers, nowadays more than ever.
Yeah, I guess you are right.
And don’t broadcast your theories….
Ha – mine and others’ have already been broadcast through this very computer and through some of my identities. I’d just rather not be stalked to my house (although I will call police); and I definitely don’t want anyone to phish my university passwords or post anything about said university under any identity associated with me.
We all get enemies on the net, but the largest sector of society does not believe so, hence we need to defend ourselves from those people also.
Well we truly screwed up that day, because we were all logged into a whole lot of different accounts at once and we were sharing computers.
More serious is that I’ve been posting a lot under my Z identity on a site having to do with Reeducation and it is not a safe space, as its owner has reminded me recently.
That’s where I could have actual net enemies, and these days it is very easy to track people right to their houses.
By the way, I think I trust Google even less than I do Mark Zuckerman; and it is really true about net enemies, who are serious, a fact which people do not realize.
Just don’t say anything that could make you look bad if taken out of context. I don’t just mean socially out of context, but intellectually out of context, as for instance in a case where others do not share your paradigm or understand all the intellectual work that has gone into it. I’ve had patriarchs pull this one on me before. They find a ready alibi in those who are intellectually lazy.
I think I’ve said plenty on various occasions, and I’m fairly sure that on the day of Investigation we posted from each others’ accounts inadvertently. I’m all for security but I am rather stoic on the question of having things taken out of context.
The results of the day of Investigation are what they are and I’m fine with just letting anything that may be happening in the cyber world about that die down. As far as all of what blogger Z has said on that Reeducation related site, I stand by it; it’s not possible to control what people say about what you say, and I don’t know what they may be saying, so it isn’t affecting me.
What I would really worry about is if anyone has guessed my identity, believes that on this blog I am discussing current matters at my current university, and is spreading rumors based on that.
This would be extremely unfortunate and I hope that if you have seen communication or posting to that effect anywhere you will let me know where it is, exactly, so that I can take action in real life such as making this blog invisible to all except invited readers.
If there is some really volatile situation, for instance, that you are already aware of and I am not, I repeat that I would really like to know. I can post a disclaimer, or speak in person to whoever is drawing conclusions based on this site about events in the real world I inhabit.
I repeat: I really don’t care what may be said on whatever site about blogger Z, how s/he may be misunderstood, and so on. I do care about being hacked, and I care if there’s a site that says who writes this blog or what university I am at.
Just go with your instincts, Z.
Based on your level of concern and your mysteriousness, my instincts say I may want to seriously consider making this blog private.
My ex, whom I took to court for cyberstalking, and anyone he’s shared it with know this URL. So does the dean of our college, the chairs of two of our departments, and the University police, due to the cyberstalking episode. Any of these people, or anyone they’ve spoken with, could be reading me daily if they wanted to take the time — or following me around the Net, for that matter.
People here who know me, know I’m not talking about current events here, so it’s all right. But if there’s some discussion going on elsewhere, that reveals my true identity and/or that could be prejudicial to me the writer or to the university, then I really, really want to be told about it.
Yes, but it may not be worth it for your mental health. Being secretive is not healthy.
I’m sorry, but that is ridiculous. Read my comment, above. To amplify:
As a result of the day of Investigation I know I have a few kinksters and even more home mortgage refinancers and so on visiting me. As a result of posting to the anti-Reeducation site, I’ve got someone demanding real names and talking about hacking activity he apparently has software for.
I don’t normally have anything like this going on, but I did during the time I was being stalked. It was disturbing then and it is now. If you know of some concrete instance of words being taken out of context, especially if traced to myself and/or my institution, I would like to know about the exact situation so I can deal with it according to protocol here.
We have a serious economic situation and a hostile governor, and it is not a time to be playing around; I am soon to delete or heavily edit this thread.
I don’t know as much about the context as you think I do.
Anyway, I’ve completed my work assignments for today. Finally. Sent you a small email. Hope you enjoy. 🙂 The evening has arrived here.