1/12/2008

Eff teaching!

A friend asked me to be a reference for him for a job he's applying for, and I gladly agreed. Today, I got an email from the prof doing the hiring. I've just to answer a series of questions about him to the best of my ability. Pretty standard, except for:
19. Is the applicant in good health and good physical shape? (The job
requires a lot of cliff-climbing, long hikes, squeezing through tight
barbed wire fences, fording rivers, and rapid chasing of monkeys over
rough terrain.)

20. Do you think that the applicant is excessively macho? Is s/he likely
to be applying for this position primarily to have swashbuckling adventure
stories to tell back home, or because of a genuine intellectual
fascination for the evolution of social behavior?

Um, this sounds like the coolest job ever. Unfortunately, I'm probably not qualified due to my desire for swashbuckling adventure stories. Seriously, who doesn't crave swashbuckling adventure stories?

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