You can't tell, but I'm wearing Nightmare Before Christmas ponytail holders
Realized that there are no photos of me on this site where I'm a) clothed and b) sober. Which rather limited my options for my Orkut profile as well. So, snapped some quick-like, did no editing whatsoever except rotating and resizing, and tossed them up. This sort of hasty, spur-of-the-moment production is one of the reasons I didn't go to grad school; I did most of my papers as an undergrad this way, too.
That I usually got high marks on them just convinced me that the system obviously did not reward effort very well.
Also added the image to my Technorati Profile. See, Ellis claimed, and I gotta admit it seems to bear out, that people deal with each other better online when they can connect a face to the text on the screen.
Which isn't to say that anonymity doesn't have it's place, despite my ignoring that little discussion what's raging elsewhere in blogtopia or whatever the hell people are calling it today.
It's just that this ain't that place. Usually. I'm not so good with the hard and fast rules. Making it up as I go along seems to work pretty well, actually.
This is yet another reason I didn't go to grad school.
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Did I mention that I got to mention you at my interview in LA this week? Chair was a very sweet, shy linguist who was totally stoked after he "nailed" [his words] his class on morphology.
& you didn't go to gradschool why, again?
Posted by: neogrammarian | February 7, 2004 4:43 PM
seeing this pic makes me feel safer knowing you are defending the universe against intergalactic evildoers. whew!
i will never be this brave, ever.
Posted by: r@d@r | February 9, 2004 1:09 PM
Neo, coolness. And at this point I'm not going to grad school because my GRE scores have expired, and I so don't want to take that damn thing again.
r@d@r, "defending the universe"? Yeah, guess I do look a bit like Sailor Moon with the pigtails. . .
Wait, no I don't. Gamera, maybe.
Posted by: Aaron | February 10, 2004 6:40 AM
Oh hey, I almost forgot to ask... do those Nightmare Before Christmas deedleeboppers have Jack Skellington on them or Sally, or what? Personally I might like some that had some of the Oogie Boogie's bugs or something.
Posted by: ARJ | February 12, 2004 1:16 AM
ARJ, picked up a set of two on clearance a few weeks back. One set, the ones I was wearing in the photo, have Jack. The others have Sally.
Didn't see any with the bugs. Which would just have to glow in the dark if they made them, because that'd be cool.
Posted by: Aaron | February 12, 2004 6:28 AM