A professor was reading as student paper on social media and the peer communities that form at their fringes. As she was reading, she saw her own (presumably anonymous) blog cited/quoted, and decided that that struck TOO close to home.
So she zorched her blog, and started a new one, on a different platform and with a new e-mail attached.
(After she ran to the can and vomited copiously, with her faithful TA holding her hair back and saying, "There, there" for a bit.)
Bear with her as she moves in, rearranges and gets back up to speed -- and lets her BP drop a bit. Could I ask y'all to SUBTLY spread the word to the Wretched Crew of Faithful?
(Via e-mail, rather than large posts screaming, "She's gone over THERE! *Donald Sutherland "Body Snatchers point* I don' wanna have to zap it all AGAIN.)
Damn.
ReplyDeleteWas the citation at least in proper MLA format?
Well, that explains a few things in my referrers list. Also: fucking yikes. That's a bit of a nightmare of mine.
ReplyDeleteYou humanities profs must pay your TAs awfully well; there's no way I've ever been paid enough to drunk-buddy anyone I've TAed for.
Yeah, I bet that was exciting. Rather like the feeling one gets when the big-ass rollercoaster goes over the hill and the bottom drops out, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteIf you listened closely, you would have heard a loud *click* a moment ago.
ReplyDeleteJim
Errr, wait, won't this... Uh, well, glad to have found you again.
ReplyDeleteWhew! Glad a few of your/my friends pointed me in this direction.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about the panic-inducing paper and ensuing Chinese fire drill of establishing a new online identity. It ranks right up there with having your wallet snatched and trying to reclaim your stolen identity, no?
(And I hope when you puked it was at least an interesting color or texture or left a lovely Rorscharch pattern.)
Yowzers! While I'm happy to have found your blog again, I had hoped your re-homing was due to much less terrifying reasons.
ReplyDeleteWOW. I was beginning to wonder, letmetellyou. I couldn't figure out what went wrong, and I never heard!
ReplyDeleteI happened to find you via the good ole' Sitemeter. Glad to know where you're at!
tweaker
I was worried you didn't want me to play your reindeer games any more. :)
ReplyDeleteWill update me blogroll soon.