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CycloneErik said:
You realize that I'm a white abolitionist scholar from the North going to the heart of slavery country, potentially? I'm sure that can't end badly.
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Things really aren't so bad, I'm joking for the most part about the terminology. The worst (racist) parts of my family have already died off. One of my cousins took the brunt of it from those idiots because she married a black man. I heard some whoppers this weekend about the crap they put her through, all because the old folks were set in their ways.

The younger generations of my family are all "woke." The future is bright.
 
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ImJustKCClone said:
Remind me how to do a screen cap and I'll show you my page...you are light years past me!
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On your PC go to the searchbar and search on Snipping Tool. Launch it and and select NEW. You have options on new for what either free form, rectangular etc. Pick rectangular .

You should then be able to use your mouse to select any portion of your screen and save it to a png file. Then you just upload that file to your post.
 
CycloneErik said:
So, the job at Ole Miss would/will involve a course they hadn't mentioned, an upper-level history of the U.S. from 1789-1860, or to Yankee ears, "The slavery story."

I'll be prepping that course today and tomorrow to sell my version of it Wednesday morning.

Course description from their website: "This course examines the social, political, economic, and cultural history from the founding of the nation through the expansion of the frontier, market revolution, rise of plantation slavery, and the era of reform."

That's everything I do. It's like they wrote it for me, and selecting the dissertation chapter that spells all that out was probably a good choice.
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Remember this - "Cooper is my favorite Manning brother."
 
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harimad said:
What is the deal with the unsolicited richard pic? I have yet to get that one that made me think to myself, "well, crap, hari, maybe I should have gone out with that guy after all!"

So, after a few years of trying, but failing every time, to successfully go 4 weeks with good-looking, painted, natural fingernails... I gave in and tried a full set of powder (fake) nails. The clincher for me was getting a rip across my thumbnail, horizontally, somewhere between halfway down the nail bed and the cuticle. After waiting a couple of weeks for that thumbnail to repair itself and regrow to almost fully cover my nail bed, I went to the salon and had them put on some fakes.

First thought: wow, these look great!

More thoughts over the next few hours/days:
1. Hmm. I forgot my job involves lots of typing.
2. Hmmmm. How in the &%$@ do I unclasp my necklace?
3. OwWW. My eyeballs! How the hell do I get my contacts out?!
4. Seriously. First my necklace, now I can't put the backs of my earrings on either??
5. Well. There goes my grooming budget. I'm going to have to buy a bigger tub of Cerave, because half of this one is now stuck between my nails and my fingers.
6. Holy $&%@, i can't button my top?!? FML..
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That last one isn't an issue for us, BTW.
 
CycloneErik said:
So, the job at Ole Miss would/will involve a course they hadn't mentioned, an upper-level history of the U.S. from 1789-1860, or to Yankee ears, "The slavery story."

I'll be prepping that course today and tomorrow to sell my version of it Wednesday morning.

Course description from their website: "This course examines the social, political, economic, and cultural history from the founding of the nation through the expansion of the frontier, market revolution, rise of plantation slavery, and the era of reform."

That's everything I do. It's like they wrote it for me, and selecting the dissertation chapter that spells all that out was probably a good choice.
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I am so pumped for you!

Don’t buy into the everyone in the South is racist crap. There are good people everywhere and bad people everywhere.

Blind Side them! They do have cool tailgating there.

Remember that while it is middle of July and you are getting desperate, so are they!

Will bust out a novena for you!

Taking it that this is phone interview?
 
harimad said:
What is the deal with the unsolicited richard pic? I have yet to get that one that made me think to myself, "well, crap, hari, maybe I should have gone out with that guy after all!"

So, after a few years of trying, but failing every time, to successfully go 4 weeks with good-looking, painted, natural fingernails... I gave in and tried a full set of powder (fake) nails. The clincher for me was getting a rip across my thumbnail, horizontally, somewhere between halfway down the nail bed and the cuticle. After waiting a couple of weeks for that thumbnail to repair itself and regrow to almost fully cover my nail bed, I went to the salon and had them put on some fakes.

First thought: wow, these look great!

More thoughts over the next few hours/days:
1. Hmm. I forgot my job involves lots of typing.
2. Hmmmm. How in the &%$@ do I unclasp my necklace?
3. OwWW. My eyeballs! How the hell do I get my contacts out?!
4. Seriously. First my necklace, now I can't put the backs of my earrings on either??
5. Well. There goes my grooming budget. I'm going to have to buy a bigger tub of Cerave, because half of this one is now stuck between my nails and my fingers.
6. Holy $&%@, i can't button my top?!? FML..
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My husband is creeped out by long nails so I keep mine simply functional. Very happy not to deal with that upkeep.
 
Cyclones_R_GR8 said:
On your PC go to the searchbar and search on Snipping Tool. Launch it and and select NEW. You have options on new for what either free form, rectangular etc. Pick rectangular .

You should then be able to use your mouse to select any portion of your screen and save it to a png file. Then you just upload that file to your post.
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Sounds like a vasectomy.
 
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carvers4math said:
I am so pumped for you!

Don’t buy into the everyone in the South is racist crap. There are good people everywhere and bad people everywhere.

Blind Side them! They do have cool tailgating there.

Remember that while it is middle of July and you are getting desperate, so are they!

Will bust out a novena for you!

Taking it that this is phone interview?
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Yeah, 30 minute Skype interview. Committee chair even noted desperation. Someone suddenly, surprisingly left and they're scrambling.

She said, and I quote "We are looking to move quickly and make an offer when the interview, er, interviews are over."

But oh, goodness, that's a lot to do to get there in time. Find a home, get Z a school. We signed her up for dance last night, so that would change. Arrange the move, the $ for the move, yada yada yada.

I don't tailgate here, though, so I'll probably still stick to TV. Be a good chance to catch mens' basketball on the road, since we're going to Ole Miss this year.

Right now, I'm enjoying the crash course in preparing a course to present on Wednesday. It's not too tricky, and the lectures will be easy enough to prepare when I get there.
My adviser and I are doing a practice interview tomorrow night. It's coming together quickly.
 
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I am now a paperclip trillionaire

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