A restrained turkey club

After much anticipation, today I not only got to eat at the Faculty Center, I was invited to blog about it.

I was positively aquiver with anticipation.

As it turned out, the turkey club was unremarkable and therefore nearly unbloggable. I am still buzzing from the cherry cobbler three hours later, though. (Suuuuuuugar!) Furthermore, no comments were made about Johnson's lack of tenure other than to note the lack of comments about his lack of tenure; Hollander made only one off-color implication (not even enough to be called a comment); Russell proclaimed the potato soup "pretty good" and extolled the virtues of mixed-breed dogs (not at the same time); Sweetser contributed her "I can't believe you guys eat there" comment via Twitter approximately an hour before the meal.

I'd just told Hollander's students not to write for others for free unless it's a cause you really believe in, so... ummm... you guys owe me $10 for this post. (What's that? You paid for my lunch and validated my parking and I should shut up? Sheesh.)

Chicken .... elsewhere

Spent Friday grading at the Barnes & Noble and had coffee and a chicken sandwich there for lunch. Not bad at all, though a bit pricey. Herbed fancy bread, some sauce. Decent coffee. Good magazine to read.

That means I missed Friday at the faculty center and its best meal of the week: meat loaf (seen at right, pre-meal, lifted shamelessly from wikiland).

Waiting to see what Johnson does with all those receipts...

Also, there is a chance we may have a guest Monday, if she sticks around after guest lecturing in my morning class.

Third Person Tweeting

Things we learned:

• Hollander does not Twitter, but several believe someone should tweet for him. (Ghost tweeting?)
  
• Hume is ready to sing camp songs.
  
• Russell gets annoyed when Johnson steals her tenure line.
  
• Someone will, eventually, do a study on the contents of this blog for which they will not get doctoral credit.
  
• Also, lemon bars may have included lemon. Or at least been stored near lemons. Or lemon fruit pies. 
  

12:21

Russell declares us tiresome and departs

We follow

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Now

It's crowded ...

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There they are

Hume, Russell and Hollander just arrived. Will delay dessert a few
moments.

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Well

Where is everyone? Just Fink and me. And he just left ....

Mark E. Johnson
mej@mejphoto.com
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En route

But late ...

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mej@mejphoto.com
http://www.mejphoto.com

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Georgian Chicken

So, is it called Georgian Chicken because

• of the way the bird is prepared, or
• the bird came from a farm in Georgia

If we didn't already have a poll going, I'd do one. At the table were Fink, Hume, Russell, and myself. Johnson missing in action, or inaction. Roasted potatoes a bit tough. Limas did not scream while eaten, or leap from the fork. Rather dull for limas, I thought.

Lots of discussion of dead people, of people talking to dead people, but very little about whether dead people post to their own online obits. Now that's research I'd read.

Multimedia at the Faculty Center

Well, our plan didn't go off exactly right, but we did manage to live-Twitter parts of the discussion. Still working out the kinks in the system ...

On the walk a back, we recommended Hume chair the curriculum review committee and/or
the search committee that will hire someone to chair the curriculum review committee. Johnson suggested, Hollander concurred, that applications should only be accepted via Twitter, thereby enforcing brevity via its 140 character limit.

Did the turkey club to be different, tomato was a little scary but the turkey was good.

live ... But we cannot get to the text field

"I think we should all have to wear bibs"

The lunch meeting was called to order at approximately 11:37 a.m. In attendance: Hollander, Hume, Johnson and Russell (Fink at another table; the dean came in late and sat with someone else).

Committee reports: Russell reiterated that Johnson does not have tenure. Hollander failed to make any notable off-color remarks.

Old business: No votes were taken. However, a recap of Johnson's last LATFC video included discussion of Hollifield's eating habits and her remarks about "governor shopping."

New business: Several important questions were raised. First, what are the monetization possibilities for LATFC.blogspot.com? Second, it has been reported that the dean and department chairs discussed this blog at a meeting. Are they readers, or was it all just hearsay? Third, is the real purpose of this blog just to annoy Sweetser? Finally, why did it take Hume so damn long to eat her salad? IT WAS NOT EVEN VERY BIG. All issues were tabled until further research can be conducted. The possibility of a grant was tossed around.

Announcements: Hollander declared that all people who enter the Faculty Center should have to wear a bib. Discussion led to a conclusion that it should be designed like a lei, with Hawaiian music and a ceremony at the front door.

Point of order: if Hollander eats all vegetables because it's Lent, does it necessarily follow that Johnson has to eat only non-vegetable food products?

The meeting was adjourned.

Three Minutes of Your Life You'll Never Get Back

Why? Because we can ...




At least the opening minute is kind of neat ...

Moving Conversation

Had a very lively meal - the Sicilian Casserole kept leaping off my fork, very odd. Discussion ran the gamut of AEJMC deadlines, curriculum reviews and Hume's imminent appointment as search chair for a visual faculty member.

Blackberry cobbler was a nice finish.

Astroturfing In Action

You read about it here a while ago, but now we're actively working on it. We spotted both magnets and bumper stickers today at The Eatery, so now we can spread the word about the wholesome goodness that is our lunching establishment.

Or, at least about the people who run the place we like to eat at. Okay, maybe "like to eat at" is a little strong ... frequently frequent?

Hollander's MEAN to puppies

How can anybody hate poodles? Or part poodles?

(Johnson -- You knew I'd find a way to post a dog picture.)

A Lunch at the Faculty Center first.

Today, Barry Hollander offers LATFC's first podcast.

All Quiet on the Southern Front

Not much going on today, not many people around campus so The Eatery is doing a little recruiting ...

Astroturfing

Learn something new every single day around here. 

We learned that Russell is manipulating the poll - every time she finds a new computer, she votes again for Sweetser. In the PR world this is astroturfing - a fake grassroots uprising. 

Go figure.

Happy Feet

Check out Johnson's latest contribution to the social media sphere.

Better Late Than Never, Right?

I have been delinquent since Monday's poll. (And who the heck is voting for Sweetser?!? It must be all those future PR kids ...)

Tuesday I had stuff to mail, so after searching for the new/hidden entrance to the post office, I hit the Bulldog Cafe for a chicken burrito. Different, and had about the right amount of jalapeño peppers on it. Maybe a few more would have been better. Chicken flavor was rather ... absent.

4-day-old Arby's sandwich

For lunch today I dined at home: an Arby's sandwich and fries that had been in the refrigerator since Saturday evening (long story, neither funny nor informative, so I'm not repeating it).

In comparison to Faculty Center sandwiches, it was warmer, the bread was fresher, and the cheese appeared to be actual cheese. I'm not sayin'.

I'm just sayin'.

New Poll!!

Over to the right there's something new on your Lunch at the Faculty Center blog - a POLL! We have a pair of photos below, let us know which is the better image.

(No, there's no real point to this poll. Or to this entry. Or, heck, even to this blog.)

Entry 1: The Hume Sandwich


Entry 2: The Johnson Platter



As they say in Boston, Vote Often, Vote Early!!