Thursday (February 5th)
To: [departmental listserv]
From: [organizing committee members One, Two, and Three]
Subject: Announcement: [interesting-sounding talk]
Mark you calenders for [interesting-sounding talk]:
Date: Friday, February 13th
Time: 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Location: [on campus]
Light refreshments will be served.
Best,
Organizing Committee Members One, Two, and Three
From: [organizing committee members One, Two, and Three]
Subject: Announcement: [interesting-sounding talk]
Mark you calenders for [interesting-sounding talk]:
Date: Friday, February 13th
Time: 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Location: [on campus]
Light refreshments will be served.
Best,
Organizing Committee Members One, Two, and Three
Tuesday (February 10th)
To: [departmental listserv]
From: [Organizing Committee Members One, Two, and Three]
Subject: Reminder: [interesting-sounding talk]
Just a reminder of the [interesting-sounding talk] coming up this Friday.
Date: Friday, February 13th
Time: 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Location: [on campus]
Light refreshments will be served.
Best,
Organizing Committee Members One, Two, and Three
From: [Organizing Committee Members One, Two, and Three]
Subject: Reminder: [interesting-sounding talk]
Just a reminder of the [interesting-sounding talk] coming up this Friday.
Date: Friday, February 13th
Time: 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Location: [on campus]
Light refreshments will be served.
Best,
Organizing Committee Members One, Two, and Three
Thursday (February 12th)
To: [graduate student listserv]
From: [Organizing Committee Members One, Two, and Three]
Subject: Last Reminder: [interesting-sounding talk] tomorrow
The [interesting-sounding talk] is tomorrow.
Date: Friday, February 13th
Time: 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Location: [on campus]
Light refreshments will be served.
Best,
Organizing Committee Members One, Two, and Three
From: [Organizing Committee Members One, Two, and Three]
Subject: Last Reminder: [interesting-sounding talk] tomorrow
The [interesting-sounding talk] is tomorrow.
Date: Friday, February 13th
Time: 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Location: [on campus]
Light refreshments will be served.
Best,
Organizing Committee Members One, Two, and Three
Friday (February 13th): 9:21 a.m.
To: [departmental listserv]
From: [Organizing Committee Member One]
Subject: Last Reminder: [interesting-sounding talk] is TODAY at 1 p.m.
The [interesting-sounding talk] is TODAY at 1 p.m..
Date: TODAY
Time: 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Location: [on campus]
Light refreshments will be served.
Best,
Organizing Committee Member One
From: [Organizing Committee Member One]
Subject: Last Reminder: [interesting-sounding talk] is TODAY at 1 p.m.
The [interesting-sounding talk] is TODAY at 1 p.m..
Date: TODAY
Time: 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Location: [on campus]
Light refreshments will be served.
Best,
Organizing Committee Member One
Friday (February 13th): 9:46 a.m.
To: [graduate student listserv]
From: [Organizing Committee Member Two]
Subject: Last Reminder: TODAY is the [interesting-sounding talk] at 1 p.m. [on campus]
TODAY is the [interesting-sounding talk] at 1 p.m. [on campus]
Date: TODAY
Time: 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Location: [on campus]
Light refreshments will be served.
Best,
Organizing Committee Member Two
From: [Organizing Committee Member Two]
Subject: Last Reminder: TODAY is the [interesting-sounding talk] at 1 p.m. [on campus]
TODAY is the [interesting-sounding talk] at 1 p.m. [on campus]
Date: TODAY
Time: 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Location: [on campus]
Light refreshments will be served.
Best,
Organizing Committee Member Two
Friday (February 13th): 11:01 a.m.
To: [departmental listserv]
From: [Organizing Committee Member Three]
Subject: THE [interesting-sounding talk] BEGINS IN ONE HOUR AND FIFTY-NINE MINUTES
THE [interesting-sounding talk] BEGINS IN ONE HOUR AND FIFTY-EIGHT MINUTES
Date: ONE HOUR AND FIFTY-SEVEN MINUTES
Time: 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Location: [on campus]
WE WILL BE SERVING LIGHT REFRESHMENTS IN ONE HOUR AND FIFTY-SIX MINUTES.
Best,
Organizing Committee Member Three
From: [Organizing Committee Member Three]
Subject: THE [interesting-sounding talk] BEGINS IN ONE HOUR AND FIFTY-NINE MINUTES
THE [interesting-sounding talk] BEGINS IN ONE HOUR AND FIFTY-EIGHT MINUTES
Date: ONE HOUR AND FIFTY-SEVEN MINUTES
Time: 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Location: [on campus]
WE WILL BE SERVING LIGHT REFRESHMENTS IN ONE HOUR AND FIFTY-SIX MINUTES.
Best,
Organizing Committee Member Three
Friday (February 13th): 4:22 p.m. (?)
To: [graduate student listserv]
From: [Organizing Committee Member Two]
Subject: Last Reminder: TODAY is the [interesting-sounding talk] at 1 p.m.
TODAY is the [interesting-sounding talk] at 1 p.m. [on campus]
Date: TODAY
Time: 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Location: [on campus]
Light refreshments will be served.
Best,
Organizing Committee Member Two
From: [Organizing Committee Member Two]
Subject: Last Reminder: TODAY is the [interesting-sounding talk] at 1 p.m.
TODAY is the [interesting-sounding talk] at 1 p.m. [on campus]
Date: TODAY
Time: 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Location: [on campus]
Light refreshments will be served.
Best,
Organizing Committee Member Two
Friday (February 13th): 4:47 p.m. (!?!)
To: [departmental listserv]
From: [Organizing Committee Member One]
Subject: Last Reminder: [interesting-sounding talk] is TODAY at 1 p.m.
The [interesting-sounding talk] is TODAY at 1 p.m.
Date: TODAY
Time: 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Location: [on campus]
Light refreshments will be served.
Best,
Organizing Committee Member One
From: [Organizing Committee Member One]
Subject: Last Reminder: [interesting-sounding talk] is TODAY at 1 p.m.
The [interesting-sounding talk] is TODAY at 1 p.m.
Date: TODAY
Time: 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Location: [on campus]
Light refreshments will be served.
Best,
Organizing Committee Member One
How was the talk?
Posted by: The Modesto Kid | Friday, 13 February 2009 at 09:21 PM
Hey, at least you're getting redundant updates on the same day. My campus voicemail sometimes can't be bothered to tell me about new messages until two or three days after they've been recorded.
Posted by: Miriam Elizabeth Burstein | Friday, 13 February 2009 at 10:32 PM
Hey, at least you're getting redundant updates on the same day. My campus voicemail sometimes can't be bothered to tell me about new messages until two or three days after they've been recorded.
Posted by: Miriam Elizabeth Burstein | Friday, 13 February 2009 at 10:33 PM
Um, speaking of redundant...
Posted by: Miriam Elizabeth Burstein | Friday, 13 February 2009 at 10:33 PM
Saturday (February 14th): 1:02 a.m.
To: [departmental listserv]
From: [Nostalgia Committee Member One]
Subject: Good Times: [interesting-sounding talk] was YESTERDAY at 1 p.m.
The [interesting-sounding talk] was YESTERDAY at 1 p.m.
Date: YESTERDAY
Time: 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Location: [on campus]
Light refreshments were served.
Best,
Nostalgia Committee Member One
Posted by: collin | Saturday, 14 February 2009 at 12:02 AM
I have a feeling that perhaps the attachments caused some delayed listserv funkiness, to which the senders initially responded by sending additional emails, resulting in the Friday afternoon deluge. Regardless, there were too many announcements about the talk.
Also: Hello. I'm a fellow 39Ber (we seem to favor the same staff meeting), and really liked your posts on teaching film and comics.
Posted by: Terry P | Saturday, 14 February 2009 at 01:43 PM
To: [departmental listserv]
From: [Professional Diva and Specialist in interesting-sounding subject]
Subject: When are we having the interesting-sounding talk?
Date: Saturday
Time: 6 p.m.
Excuse me, weren't we going to have a specialist come to give an interesting-sounding talk? When is this happening? Why aren't people getting the word out about this? This talk is highly important and I don't want to hear of any of my graduate students skipping it!
Counting on seeing all of you there,
PD
Posted by: Sisyphus | Saturday, 14 February 2009 at 07:59 PM
Collin, if only you knew. (One of those accidental "Reply:" vs. "Reply to All:" errors, but still . . .
Terry, happy to be of service. I'd say you should say hello to me at the next meeting, but you probably remember everyone's name from that first meeting as well as I do---so, um, the unshaven guy with the backward baseball cap who talks way too much? Say hello to him at the next meeting, because he's me.
Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Saturday, 14 February 2009 at 08:01 PM
Sisyphus, yours wasn't there when I wrote mine, but I should say this:
At some point---after a certain number of reminders---people need to assume that we're not like PD. I mean, we all do mark things down on our calendars if we want to attend them. Then we go, or maybe we don't, depending on the day. But we can't be cajoled into going, I don't think. Guilted, yes, most certainly yes, by advisors and the like, but cajoled? We're too stubborn, damn it.
Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Saturday, 14 February 2009 at 08:06 PM
Oh, it was last Friday, Feb 13, not this Friday, Feb 20?
I'm sorry I missed it.
So, how was it?
Posted by: bartkid | Wednesday, 18 February 2009 at 02:03 PM
I didn't go. On principle, you know.
Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Wednesday, 18 February 2009 at 02:13 PM