It’s a chaotic Monday morning with far too much to do and too little time to do it. I’ve got a post on the decline of military history percolating in my brain, but that will likely have to wait until tomorrow. Thanks to all for the comments below the various posts below — this has been my highest week of "hits" (15027 as of 9:00AM) in all of 2006, and for that I am grateful.
Reject the Koolaid has an interview this morning with Steve Joordens, a psychology professor at the University of Toronto. He’s in 1st place on the 50 Hottest Professors in North America list, and he’s a humble, funny dude who loves his wife and plays in a campus rock band. Clearly, his nearest competition on the list can’t compete on grounds of humility, humor, looks, or musical skills — though word on the street has it #2 loves his wife very much as well. Anyhow, read all about Steve. Whether the RTK will conduct an interview with the (rapidly fading) runner-up remains to be seen.
UPDATE: A reader kindly tells me that this post seems to have led those who love me less than they ought to put fictitious ratings up at RMP in an effort to rob me of my hard-earned chili peppers. Their perfidy is revealed by the fact that they don’t know what classes I teach, and list me as teaching psych and sociology. Folks, if you want to slam me on RMP, at least have the sense to list the right classes so that it will appear that you are an actual student: I teach History 1A, History 1B, History 25B, and Humanities 1. It”ll look more authentic that way. Sheesh.
UPDATE to the UPDATE: They’ve caught on. I’ve lost seven chili peppers since this morning. Keep at it, lads, and you’ll have me off the top fifty by Thursday.
Holy moly! I can’t believe I blog-know the second hottest professor on the whole continent!
I tell you, you hottie professors are just the nicest guys. We could use some of you multi-chili types here in my faculty. Wonder what the top-ranking women are like? Maybe that will be the subject of my next investigative report.Thanks for the link. DD
Wow, they’ve taken more of your chili peppers today. Can’t Rate my Professors.com do something to keep the MRAs from ruining your ratings?
Why do you give them so much attention? Why did you tell them what classes you teach? Do you want to lose all of your chillies???
Kt, if I lose all of my chilies and my ratemyprofessors rating goes in the tank, it won’t change how I feel about the job I do and how my actual students feel about me. I am increasingly convinced that most of the ratings aren’t provided by students but by others who either want to shower with unearned praise or want to be as nasty and hurtful as they can. Despite widespread rumors of an incredibly fragile ego, my sense of self is not linked to receiving constant validation.
Wow, that’s terrible. I feel kind of responsible. Trolls, give Hugo his chilis back!!!
It’s all your fault, Deirdre. All you. 110%. I’m furious beyond words. ;-)