I want a pudding pop.
Mister Husband and I are reviewing each others RSA papers-in-progress. He comes in to my office and comments on my cobble-y writing process.
Him: My dear, you have made a weird and wonderful pudding here. But it is half chocolate and half vanilla and you have not yet swirled them.
[Discussion of structural details follows. Eventually...]
Me: You know, Advisor #1 would totally say, “You have not properly cited the custard literature here. You must go back and briefly outline the early social aspects of custard.”
Him: True. Mine, however, would just inform you that your pudding is entirely wrong. You've got chocolate and vanilla here, but tapioca is much more rigorous. He would not like your pudding. Or most other people’s pudding.
Me: No, absolutely not.
Him: And my other advisor would say that you’ve completely forgotten to discuss the cup. You need many more pages on the contextual conditions imposed by the cup and its particular aspects.
Me: My other advisor would encourage more discussion of Jello. Because Jello makes pudding, and has some fascinating and contributory characteristics. Particularly when you add extra gelatin and make wigglers. More theoretical discussion of wigglers is in order.
[pause]
Him: Now I really want some pudding.
Comments
a. Now *I* want a puddin pop!
II. You are taking this whole RSA thing a tad seriously, are you not? Or is it just because I now have a tenure-track job where they couldn't care less if I present at RSA than I'm not worrying so much? Hmmmm.... ;)
Posted by: susansinclair | May 13, 2008 3:01 PM
Oh that is hilarious. But you did, of course, forget to mention why you don't want to discuss mousse instead of pudding. Or cheesecake for that matter.
Posted by: Spirophita | May 13, 2008 3:27 PM
OK, it's official, you really are a fully-immersed graduate student once your conversations turn that direction.
Posted by: Scrivener | May 13, 2008 5:32 PM
But what about the really important questions, like cool whip or whipped cream on top?
Posted by: jspad | May 13, 2008 5:55 PM
Susan - I think not. And neither would you if you had my respondent. :)
Spiro - True! I reject mousse theory and we shall speak no more of it in this paper.
Scriv - Sadly, this happened years ago.
jspad - Creamy toppings are for you literary scholars. Here in STC we focus on the pudding and like to think we are superior for it. (Which is not to imply that this is true. We just like to think it is.)
Posted by: Krista | May 13, 2008 7:30 PM