Wednesday, April 20, 2005

anecdote

Sitting calmly at his computer in his room in Breese Hall, Eric Strelitzer (name purely coincidental) explained what a professor had said to him at a recent banquet.

With a neatly trimmed reddish beard and multiple jackets hanging on the back of his chair, he rocked and surfed the web while he told his tale, looking up sporadically.

There had been a film festival the night before the banquet he attended. Upon the festival's ending, its winners received comments from the judges. One of Strelitzer's professors was a judge and he noticed that she did not put any comments about his film.

At the banquet the following day, Strelitzer said with a laugh that he asked her why she didn't write any comments.

"You got those back?" she had questioned and suddenly became upset and anxious. Apparently she did not know participants would be receiving the scoring sheets and wrote some "pretty harsh things."

Strelitzer said he had told her "It's not that big of a deal," yet she was agitated, mentioned she needed a drink and rushed over to a participant who was there to whom she had given harsh comments.

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