It is All About the Small Pleasures

It is important to smell the roses and all that.  And it is important to enjoy some good snark:

@Worse_Reviewer hey, when we talk about de tenure, we mean de book or 6-8 of dese here articles
— Steve Saideman (@smsaideman) March 19, 2015

Of course, the U of Tennessee undermining tenure is pretty ugly, but gallows humor has a purpose--to take a bit of the pain out these kinds of things.

Either you laugh or you cry, and I choose to laugh.