I don't understand why first class boards first. Is it just so they can look down on us peons in coach because for the life of me I don't know why someone would want to spend even more time on a plane.
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Mowed the back yard last night which was very overdue. I should mow the front and sides tonight but it's 98 and Friday. They aren't as overdue as the back was.
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It's pretty far away from Cape Fear. I checked the map.
This place is tough to pin down on details. It's not specifically saying tenure-track, and they have at least two people teaching history courses that aren't listed in the history faculty.
You can usually get a good idea what the teaching load would be from explicit wording and openings in their course schedule. No such thing here.
If you are already first class, why the hell are you even ********? You're going to have somewhere to put your luggage and you'll have leg room. Being 10th on the plane vs. 9th won't make a difference. That would have been awkward AF for her had she been next to you!
Now that I am highest status for multiple years on Delta, I mainly fly first class because I am fortunate enough to get the free upgrades.
Here are some reasons I can think of:
- Guaranteed overhead bin space
- Pre-flight beverage
- No standing in frozen/hot jetway
- Ease of boarding process (essentially the cheapest tickets board last but it's not more efficient)
- Get the boarding process over with. Some people find it very stressful to fly and getting into your seat, you can finally relax and be done with the most stressful part
- Seat is more comfortable than gate seating (usually) and includes that beverage I mentioned earlier, maybe a snack, in flight entertainment etc
- And yes there is some of the "I am better than you" attitude and the airlines play into it a ton. Particularly if you're a high status. For example every flight, the head flight attendant hands me a personal handwritten thank you note signed by the crew for being a loyal member. Another example is if I have an extremely tight connection for whatever reason, I will get escorted out of the plane, off the jetway onto the tarmac and put into a car and driven to my plane directly.
But since I was in the expenses app I looked how much "I" spent on flights with my job this fiscal year (July2017-June2018) and it was just shy of $90k, holy **** that's disgusting.
I see you didn't mention getting to walk across the 3 foot strip of red carpet like they do on United. That's what disappoints me the most about flying coach. I get to see those people walk across that damn strip of carpet and lament "why not me?"
Wait do they really do that? I have only flown United once and I didn't pay attention at all
My 3-yr-old was fascinated that the surgery was robot-assisted. I assume he thought it was like Screech’s robot from Saved By the Bell or something.
Today I wasn’t quite as super-achy, which was nice - just more nauseous.
Stuff I remember the boys required to read in 24 cumulative years of high school so far:
Tolkien, The Hobbit
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave
Sandberg, Abraham Lincoln
Cervantes, Don Quixote
Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
JF Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans; The Complete Leatherstocking Tales; The Deerslayer
Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
Kipling, The Jungle Book
C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Dumas, The Three Musketeers;The Count of Monte Cristo
Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea; For Whom the Bell Tolls; A Farewell to Arms
Dickens, A Christmas Carol; A Tale of Two Cities; Great Expectations; David Copperfield
Melville, Billy Budd
Paine, Common Sense
Beowulf
Wells, The Invisible Man; The War of the Worlds
Twain, Tom Sawyer; Huck Finn; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Importance of Being Earnest
Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Stevenson, Kidnapped; The Black Arrow; Treasure Island
Vonnegut, Player Piano; Slaughterhouse-Five
Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Rousseau, The Social Contract
Hobbes, Leviathan
Miller, The Crucible
Guest, Ordinary People
Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men; The Grapes of Wrath; Cannery Row; East of Eden; The Winter of Our Discontent
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
London, The Call of the Wild
Swift, Gulliver's Travels
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Machiavelli, The Prince
Lewis, Main Street
Thoreau, Walden
Kennedy, Profiles in Courage
Sinclair, The Jungle
Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Golding, Lord of the Flies
Frank, Diary of a Young Girl
Homer, The Iliad; The Odyssey
Kafka, Metamorphosis
Huxley, Brave New World
Mill, On Liberty
Milton, Paradise Lost
Scott, Ivanhoe
Shelley, Frankenstein
Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet; The Merchant of Venice; Richard II; Henry V; Macbeth; Othello; Twelfth Night; Hamlet; Sonnets 17-18; Julius Caesar; The Taming of the Shrew; As You Like It; The Tempest; A Winter's Tale; King Lear; Antony and Cleopatra; Henry VIII
Tolstoy, Anna Karenina; War and Peace
Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
St. Thomas Aquinas, Treatise on Law
Beckett, Waiting for Godot
Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain
Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago
Poe, Selected Tales
Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Arendt, The Human Condition
Tocqueville, Democracy In America
Marx, The Communist Manifesto
Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Mill, On Liberty
Heller, Catch 22
The Arabian Nights
Voltaire, Candide
Joyce, A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Emerson, Selected Essays
Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
St. Augustine, City of God
Aristotle, Politics
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Capote, In Cold Blood
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
We are working on our very last summer reading list.
Tolkien, The Hobbit
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave
Sandberg, Abraham Lincoln
Cervantes, Don Quixote
Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
JF Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans; The Complete Leatherstocking Tales; The Deerslayer
Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
Kipling, The Jungle Book
C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Dumas, The Three Musketeers;The Count of Monte Cristo
Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea; For Whom the Bell Tolls; A Farewell to Arms
Dickens, A Christmas Carol; A Tale of Two Cities; Great Expectations; David Copperfield
Melville, Billy Budd
Paine, Common Sense
Beowulf
Wells, The Invisible Man; The War of the Worlds
Twain, Tom Sawyer; Huck Finn; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Importance of Being Earnest
Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Stevenson, Kidnapped; The Black Arrow; Treasure Island
Vonnegut, Player Piano; Slaughterhouse-Five
Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Rousseau, The Social Contract
Hobbes, Leviathan
Miller, The Crucible
Guest, Ordinary People
Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men; The Grapes of Wrath; Cannery Row; East of Eden; The Winter of Our Discontent
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
London, The Call of the Wild
Swift, Gulliver's Travels
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Machiavelli, The Prince
Lewis, Main Street
Thoreau, Walden
Kennedy, Profiles in Courage
Sinclair, The Jungle
Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Golding, Lord of the Flies
Frank, Diary of a Young Girl
Homer, The Iliad; The Odyssey
Kafka, Metamorphosis
Huxley, Brave New World
Mill, On Liberty
Milton, Paradise Lost
Scott, Ivanhoe
Shelley, Frankenstein
Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet; The Merchant of Venice; Richard II; Henry V; Macbeth; Othello; Twelfth Night; Hamlet; Sonnets 17-18; Julius Caesar; The Taming of the Shrew; As You Like It; The Tempest; A Winter's Tale; King Lear; Antony and Cleopatra; Henry VIII
Tolstoy, Anna Karenina; War and Peace
Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
St. Thomas Aquinas, Treatise on Law
Beckett, Waiting for Godot
Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain
Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago
Poe, Selected Tales
Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Arendt, The Human Condition
Tocqueville, Democracy In America
Marx, The Communist Manifesto
Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Mill, On Liberty
Heller, Catch 22
The Arabian Nights
Voltaire, Candide
Joyce, A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Emerson, Selected Essays
Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
St. Augustine, City of God
Aristotle, Politics
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Capote, In Cold Blood
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
We are working on our very last summer reading list.
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Oh god I didn't even know this article guy showed up! I am getting an adult beverage and getting in
Can I use this one? Please?
Coastal Carolina won the College World Series two years ago, and they're the Chanticleers. (which is a type of rooster)
In other news, I hate when car trouble hits after 4p on a Friday. 
Need to get a couple of new tires...we've got the funds to take care of it, just the logistics of it sucks.
Need to get a couple of new tires...we've got the funds to take care of it, just the logistics of it sucks.
Have a drink for me! God it just got better and better to read, it was hilarious.
Carvers post reminded me...add The Crucible, The Scarlet Letter, The Great Gatsby, and Death of a Salesman to my high school required reading repertoire. I want to say we also read Homer's works, but can't remember what year that was for me.
The Red Badge of Courage, I think, was junior high, as was Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
The Red Badge of Courage, I think, was junior high, as was Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
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