So Monktress Hermitage attended her deparment's annual 'let's ring in the New Year with karaoke and bad hor d' oeuvres ' party and it was great fun. Hermitage observed her Superior Professors engage in bad renditions of Spice Girls', Aretha Franklin's and Tina Tuner's greatest hits and got to know some of her elder PhDs. And Hermitage observed that many of her fellow students were very comfortable around Professors, so comfortable that they glibly became hammered out of their fucking minds.
Figure 1: Hermitage is all about a good time, but not around The Man Hermitage thought this was a curious phenomena. These were students who, presumably, are always vying for Professor's attention and respect when in the sober state. Wouldn't it compromise their standing in their future colleague's minds if everyone saw said student constantly engaging in an artistic interpretation of the linedance "Bullshit!" ? Or is this just standard behavior that Professors have learned to filter out in the course of their tenure? Or maybe the Professors were glad everyone was too drunk to film their heartfelt "What's Love Got to Do With It?" to show ad infinitum? Hermitage seeks wisdom from her Extremely Intelligent Readers.
Figure 2: Hermitage wonders if her mad dancing skills would be as well received in a social setting
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Yeah - I've suffered through several of these. I'm ok with student/faculty parties, but overindulgence in alcoholic beverages by either group just shows who the fools really are. There's a time and a place for getting drunk and these get-togethers are neither.
Even though I've seen it a gazillion times, watching Elaine's thumb/kick dancing just slays me but this is probably my all-time favorite dance scene.
Damn, I put the link in wrong. Here it is again.
I have resisted the call of the original BBC Office, but now I will have to add it to my list of 'shows to keep me alive after Battlestar Galactica." I'm pretty sure straight off I want to have Ricky Gervais' babies.
The original version of The Office is one of my all-time favorite series but very uncomfortable viewing the first or second time through as it looks so real. I'm a massive fan of Ricky Gervais (particularly his podcasts) but I'm not sure I'd ever want to have his babies ...
Yup, I've noticed the same drunkenness crap. The guys who want to be noticed by everyone start dancing or even worse, getting physical and obnoxious and the gals become hangy drapes on everyone and start crying. Departmental events with drinking amongst the faculty and students are whacked.
The video is positively awful - wanted to maim my eyes.
Hahahahahaha - yeah I did my PhD in Glasgow, where whole labs get plastered together on a regular basis. Oh so much fun, and the students were usually NOT the most drunk people there.
The British Office is the finest television programme ever made, period. The American version is also good, but diluted through having too many episodes. Both Extras and Ricky Gervais' stand-up are also very good, and apparently he's one of those comedians who is always "on" in real life. My husband worked on 2 movies that had RG and Robin Williams in, and he heard from the on-set guys that filming was a riot.
Haha - I felt bad about hijacking Hermitage's post to discuss my obsession with The Office so I've listed my all time faves here.
You know what's the best? When professors generously invite their grad students to a soiree at their homes, only to have certain of said grad students get fucking wasted beyond human comprehension and have noisy sex in the guest bathroom adjacent to the living room in which a sizable amount of the smashed-but-sufficiently-less-so-in-most-cases party has gathered. But it's not like I've witnessed something like that or anything. That would be crazy.
The video's hilarious.
@VWXYNot: I'm all for it if your profs are equally plastered. But getting blitzed when they are completely sober, eh...
@Juniper: Escandalo!! You all should have stood outside and cheered them when they came out, and took paparazzi-esque photos! Then sent it to CollegeHumor or HotGhettoMess, you'd be famous!!
Hermitage, you should check out Candid Engineer's post on a similar subject:
http://candidengineer.blogspot.com/2008/10/hey-prof-pass-dube.html
It's pretty funny :).
And Juniper - LMAO!!!!!!!
Juniper - seriously??!! That's hilarious. My PI in Glasgow once threw a party (actually it was my leaving party) that deserves its own post some day. Suffice it to say that two people threw up - one in the bathroom, and one in the bushes outside. Good times.
My PhD advisor was renowned for being a heavy drinker regardless of the situation. A few years ago he was dry humping a first year student on the dance floor at the department's annual ball in front of all of faculty and students in attendance ... and then seen dropping her off at her apartment the next morning in his car. Classy.
Oh Mein Gott, I think I just go abs of steel from laughing at all these fabulous stories! I should host a 'exchange your drunk dept party stories' night every week and I'll be ready to run a fucking triathalon. Scandalouuuuus! All of you! But Juiper & PiT takes a prize I'm pretty sure.
My PhD advisor was renowned for being a heavy drinker regardless of the situation. A few years ago he was dry humping a first year student on the dance floor at the department's annual ball in front of all of faculty and students in attendance ... and then seen dropping her off at her apartment the next morning in his car.
Yeah. That sounds like the kind of shit that went on in the grad program I left. Sordid as hell.
Cath, everyone, I'm not kidding! We all stared at the closed door, stupefied, and finally one of the other graduate students actually got so angry that she threatened to bust in if they didn't come out. The shenanigans only ended then. Totally HGM material.
Hey! I saw your comment on my cookie recipe, thanks. Did you bake them?
Hahaha I never read the comments before mine, but now I did, and wow, this cookie-thing really landed in the wrong place, hahaha!
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