The chair of the department at Emory just called me.
To tell me (and I'm quoting almost verbatim): what can we do to make you choose Emory?
How do you turn down an offer like that?
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I remember reading about how in certain parts of Asia and in Macedonia, people use cormorants to catch fish.
The fisherman uses a ring or tie on the bird's neck so it won't be able to swallow the fish it catches.
Every seventh fish the fisherman has to give to the cormorant or else the bird will stop fishing.
And if I remember correctly, after a few years, the cormorant won't fish for the fisherman any more.
The cormorant would rather starve than lose all but the seventh fish.
Except maybe that last part isn't true.
The fisherman uses a ring or tie on the bird's neck so it won't be able to swallow the fish it catches.
Every seventh fish the fisherman has to give to the cormorant or else the bird will stop fishing.
And if I remember correctly, after a few years, the cormorant won't fish for the fisherman any more.
The cormorant would rather starve than lose all but the seventh fish.
Except maybe that last part isn't true.
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Thusly:
"No."
And then you wait. He'll come back with something like, "Ok, I'm serious, anything, we'll do anything."
That's when you hit him with your list of demands.
"I want fresh gummi bears on my lab bench every morning. You're going to delegate all my menial responsibilities to lesser members of the program. And, I want a lifetime free pass to any museum in the country."
well, i'm sure they can get you a lifetime supply of coke.
maybe you should demand a new car and a signing bonus. maybe an escalade with a gas card. you'd be so baller.
Actually I hear that if you move to Atlanta you automatically get a life time supply of coke, delivered by Ted Turner.
You must refer to it as "Hatlanta"
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