Not safe for work
Okay, I can’t even tell you the title of this blog, because if I did, the next time your supervisor got a memo from her boss telling him to make some cuts, he’d talk to the IT guy, who would point out that you had visited a site that had a vulgar word in the URL. And then your career would be in ruins, and no one would hire you in your career field because your former supervisor would use code words to signal to the recruiter that you are Not To Be Trusted with a desktop computer. You would have to take a job steaming milk at some corporate coffee joint, and your oh-so-PC friends would sneer at you, and mutter about burnt-tasting coffee. Then, to show that you haven’t totally sold out, you’d get piercings in peculiar places, and dye your newly spiky hair, and the corporate coffee place would quietly cut your hours, because you make the people who do have actual, productive jobs nervous.
Sooner, rather than later, you would be dumpster diving for wilted, soggy produce in the dumpster outside the organic food coop. And what’s worse, you would be proud, and smug, bragging to one and all that you managed to find all the ingredients for a chicken ceasar salad, except for the dressing. Your former friends would have quietly deleted your URL from their blogroll, “accidentally” forgotten your Twitter tag, and claimed the cell phone company failed to transfer your number over when they got the new Blackberry. But that’s okay, because you have a whole new set of friends like Angst and Harper, who are the shiz when it comes to RPG gaming, even if they only shower at the solstices.
I won’t have all that on my conscience. I’ll only tell you that there are pictures of cute animals. Click the link at home.
December 17 2008 12:25 pm | Uncategorized
December 19th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Back in August, in typical law school obfuscation, they announced:
“The AALS 2009 Annual Meeting will take place January 6-10, 2009, in San Diego, California. Several years ago the Association booked rooms at the San Diego Marriott and the Manchester Grand Hyatt. In the last few weeks there have been suggestions that the Association should boycott the Hyatt because its owner has contributed money to a ballot initiative designed to overturn the California Supreme Court’s May decision in favor of same-sex marriage. In addressing this issue, the Executive Committee has sought to ensure that the Annual Meeting serves the needs of all participants to the maximum extent possible given our contractual obligations to the hotels.
Our contracts with the hotels provide that each hotel reserve a block of guest rooms, and leave to the AALS the choice of where to locate the AALS Registration, Exhibit Hall, Section Programs, Presidential Programs, and House of Representatives meetings. We will honor our contracts with both hotels, and we have exercised our option to hold all AALS events at the Marriott to ensure the maximum participation by our members.
Law schools and other organizations hosting meetings and receptions will be contacted soon by an AALS meetings manager regarding the location of their events. Faculty and staff at law schools will soon receive housing information and you will be able to choose your individual hotel room on a first-come, first-served basis in accordance with the usual housing procedures.”
..which if it directly addresses the situation, does so in a manner which leaves me scratching my head. Is it a boycott..is it not? Perhaps they will address the inauguration in a similar manner, then get back to their paper chase ?!