I just have to add that one of the funniest things I’ve read in a long time is in Dr. Crazy’s response to Perlmutter:

“Because apparently one needs a Ph.D. in scrap-booking as well as in one’s field of specialty in order to get tenure where I work.”

Oh my god, I laughed so hard because it’s absurdly true. While the creaky old professors in my department still make the secretaries make their photocopies for them, the tenure-track folks are, every year, finding themselves armed with computer software, scanners, label-makers, colored paper, binders of every dimension, hole punchers, staplers, and endless amounts of artfully formatted paperwork. Good grief. No wonder we don’t have time to be joyful.