Principles for Academic Survival

Sometimes a blog provides time critical sanity preserving information.

Unqualified Offerings meets the dark side of academic life.
The Uncertain Committee and its Vague Quantitative Assignments.

Fortunately Chad has figured this out, analyzed the context, and generously provides a survival mechanism.
I had some vague notion of this general approach, at least in theory, but Chad elegantly provides detailed, field tested, quite specific instructions for tackling this sub-category of the General Committee Problem.

I may need this in the near future.

Makes me long for the legendary ad hoc subcommittee of the committee on committees, for the review and abolition of committees.