@jqheywood Especially in the Humanities! It's no longer publish or perish but publish til perish, and pray they don't shut down the department or make you an adjunct.
@jqheywood I would love, love, love an Indy sequel that exclusively shows his daily routine as a retiree: Indy drinking tea in the sun behind his cottage, Indy talking to his cat, Indy getting groceries and swinging by the pub for an early afternoon Guinness…
@jqheywood Retired Indiana Jones scratching his bare belly while absent mindedly pondering the contents of his fridge while wearing PJ bottoms and being courted by his cat.
@jqheywood When I was teaching in a Northwestern US math department years ago there was an emeritus professor in his 80s who would routinely come into his office and fall asleep in his chair with his mouth wide open
@jqheywood#today I was listening to a story about how #france is in protest over the government raising the #retirement age and I was shocked when the newscaster said it was going up to 64. People are flooding the streets to #protest against having to keep working to 64. Obviously except the academics.
Back from Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail and Discovers That His Bid for Tenure Has Been Denied
January 22, 1939
Assistant Professor Henry “Indiana” Jones Jr.
Department of Anthropology
Chapman Hall 227B
Marshall College
Dr. Jones:
As chairman...