Foiled again
July 26, 2009 By: almostgotit Category: TITSNOB, unemployed
I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with a Master’s Degree in “Human Movement & Leisure Studies.”
Actually, I have no idea what “Human Movement & Leisure Studies” even IS, nor what it has to do with managing websites and writing stories; however, most other people don’t know what “English” is either, so fair’s fair.
And that’s absolutely as snotty as I’m going to GET on the matter, too, except perhaps to add a tiny little observatory note that The Institution That Shall Not Be Named (TITSNOB, if you sort of squint) clearly maintains its eccentric obsession with Master’s Degrees, no matter how irrelevent.
One might ask why I was so silly as to go tilting at the TITSNOB windmill again in the first place, but one would be handed an ice cream and told to go sit in a corner and be quiet if one did.
I know. I KNOW.
See, there were all of these complicated REASONS, and it was too tempting to see if TITSNOB really again would be so silly itself, especially after it had promised me a job yet again, and this time in WRITING.
Yes, complicated and silly all mixed up together in a nasty soup that doesn’t even GO with ice cream, so let’s just dump TITSNOB on its big fat old stupid head, shall we, and go dig into a big tub of Moosetracks instead!
(Don’t tell my WW leader though, ‘kay?)
July 26th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Wink! G! I had no idea we’d applied for the same job! And those other things too! You’ve made my day, and thank you, sweet thing.
July 26th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Leisure Studies? Isn’t that what the legendary Van Wilder majored in?
July 27th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Well written. Love the bit about the nasty soup and ice cream.
September 1st, 2009 at 5:11 pm
After many years of working and studying at that institution for over 20 years myself, all I can say is “I feel your pain.” They have attempted to destroy my self-esteem more than once, I assure you.
September 1st, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Hi LouAnn! Yes, you were smart to Get The H Out. We’re still working on it…
November 11th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
[...] Meanwhile, we’ve started woodstove season. Pulled out the crockpot for warm, autumnal meals. Become fascinated with stacking rock walls around new garden beds, and making hypertufa planters for next spring’s garden. Been trying out a new volunteer gig, so long as the unemployment rate is 10.2% and still rising. And on that subject, been clearing the air with some new ears about some old business. [...]