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Date: Mar 13, 2006

Sad Prof

Date: Mar 13, 2006

Good Bye Parties wrote:

Have you been invited to many going away parties in the last three years? I’m getting depressed attending these happy/sad occasions where good friends of 20 years are given a send off to their next position, usually in heaven compared to here. It reminds me of the Jazz Funerals in New Orleans. People are crying to the sad blues on the way to the cemetery and then come to life with the happy dance music as they parade back to the party to celebrate their friends making it to the promise land. I don’t know how many more I can attend unless I’m the one that gets to leave for the promise land.

Let's just hope they don't start disposing of our dearly departing and valuable faculty members before they can get out of town, by using the method shown in the movie Soylant Green.

Date: Mar 13, 2006

Good Bye Parties wrote:

Have you been invited to many going away parties in the last three years?

Rumor has it that in some departments there are no parties, even for those retiring. People just want to get the h*ll out of Dodge.

Date: Mar 13, 2006

Rumor wrote:

Rumor has it that in some departments there are no parties, even for those retiring. People just want to get the h*ll out of Dodge.

Do you mean to say that they don't even wait around for the gold watch or the silver bowl?

Date: Mar 13, 2006

when i retire i don't a party. pack up that part of my office i want to take home, turn in my key, and say "goodnight mrs calabash wherever you are."