Sunday, 18 November 2007

Statuses

Scott Eric Kaufman

Mean Cat: Still Mean

Blog : Unupdated

Classes : Finished

Dissertation : Unwritten

University of California Irvine : Future Alum

Irvine : Current Home

Orange County : On Fire (Still)

California : Full of Hippies

The United States : Arrogant (Beyond Words)

The World : In Peril

The Universe: Expanding
Nov 18, 2007 7:59:05 PM

11 Comments

Sisyphus

Apologize, pluck out his eyes!
Apologize,
Apologize.

Hey, where have you been? You are forcing me to come up with ever-more-unusual ways of procrastinating from my work! I mean, really! Make with the funny!

Posted by: Sisyphus | Sunday, 18 November 2007 at 08:22 PM

Karl Steel

Diss Status: Not unwritten. Unfinished. There's a world of difference, and you're on the happy side of that difference. Keeping at it is much easier than starting.

You forgot one status given the recent reports of global warming:

The Future of Our Civilization: foreclosed.

Posted by: Karl Steel | Sunday, 18 November 2007 at 08:47 PM

Ahistoricality

Readership: strained pseudo-maternal relief.

Posted by: Ahistoricality | Sunday, 18 November 2007 at 09:15 PM

surlacarte

Library fines: ever resolved?

Posted by: surlacarte | Sunday, 18 November 2007 at 11:14 PM

charlotte

Heh. Been reading too much Thornton Wilder lately?

From: Dissertation still unfinished.

Posted by: charlotte | Monday, 19 November 2007 at 02:28 PM

Martin GL

My inner language nerd wants statuses not to be the plural of status. Surely it should be statii.

Posted by: Martin GL | Monday, 19 November 2007 at 04:59 PM

Martin GL

...it should be statii question mark

Posted by: Martin GL | Monday, 19 November 2007 at 05:00 PM

SEK

Library Fines : Blessedly Resolved, but ...

... Health Insurance from Student Fees : Still in Process

Dissertation : Being Progressively Unwritten ...

... is how I should've phrased it, Karl.

(And it's not Wilder I aimed for here, Charlotte, but Joyce in Portrait.)

Posted by: SEK | Monday, 19 November 2007 at 09:00 PM

Karl Steel

Surely it should be statii

Pretty sure it's no because status is fourth declension. The plural for pedants would be statūs.

Being Progressively Unwritten

Edited, SEK, edited. Whittled if you like.

Posted by: Karl Steel | Monday, 19 November 2007 at 11:17 PM

Jack

Get out of Orange County or face major corruption. No really, it happens to everyone.

Posted by: Jack | Friday, 23 November 2007 at 04:17 PM

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