I took the picture. If you think I'm the bad law professor for it, just know I'm saying "hi" to all the former students who come by this blog sometimes and like when it's a window looking back into their beloved college town.
There was some really cool skiing on the hill yesterday!
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Beautiful. My meeting view yesterday was blue sky over a placid Lake Pontchartrain.
Why do we have so many damn meetings in the last weeks of the semester?
May I suggest you send a photo to Andrew Sullivan for his "View from Your Window"? (don't forget to work in a little window frame though- he likes that- LOL)
Seriously, I love your UW photos.
I love the pictures! You're not a bad law professor! Maybe some of your colleagues should start blogging! It's been cold here in California, and the skiing locally here is picking up as well. Hope you're safe and sound -- the Midwest weather made all the evening news headlines last night.
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thats great!
loved my time in madison.
Here are my thoughts on “the bad law professor”
Initial thought #1. Of coarse she’s not a bad law professor; she’s just snapping a picture during yet another (laborious & trite) committee meeting.
Important premise. (foundation for thought #2) People all around the Blogs seem to routinely label (& then dismiss) Ann Althouse’s thinking as of the dreaded “conservative” kind. {I don’t but it myself }
Thought #2. Even the perception of her as such means she’s under constant scrutiny in an academic environment.
Thought #3. Any hint of her lacking professionalism will be used as an excuse to diminish her status and career.
Thought #4. Gosh I hope she’s got tenure.
I remember reading at one point that some CEO (or could possibly have been Admiral Hyman Rickover) decreed that no meeting was to include refreshments or chairs.
The story continues on to say that meetings shortened from hours to a max of 15 minutes; with nothing to consume and nowhere to sit people lost interest in hearing themselves chatter, got the business over with and went back to work.
Susan Sontag's book of essays 'On Photography':
"There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera," --Sontag
"The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own." --Sontag
"What renders a photograph surreal is its irrefutable pathos as a message from time past, and the concreteness of its intimations about social class."-- Susan Sontag
(Althouse and her agressive camera--definitely a class thing!)
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19650
Peace, Maxine
You had a faculty meeting on a Saturday morning? Oh, the horror!
You have no respect for the classroom. I think it goes all the way back to kindergarden, when you used to propel yourself around the room on your little rug.
Bad Ann.
WV: owbutq
Meaning: I must have been going too fast on my little rug.
Reminds me of my tour in Madison, circa 1966-1971 (the "good" years).
BTW, when you got the paper the other morning, were you in flannels or flimsies? Just asking. . .
If you want to really raise hell, take a picture of the meeting and post that.
Skis? You're supposed to use trays from the chowhall.
Todd: They used to tray in the old days, but I don't think I've ever seen people tray on the hill. I don't see regular sledding either. And I think yesterday was the first time I ever saw people ski.
Click on the photo to get to an enlargement if you have trouble seeing the skiers in the picture.
I was in Middleton today -- it's amazing how little snow is on the ground 5 miles west of the UW.
I go to school in Charleston, SC. Seeing pictures like this makes me miss snow!
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