An Aside on Boxed Lunches

In theory, food offers a selective incentive to encourage attendance at the plethora of seminars that we have had this semester. But I am beginning to sense a problem -- a paltry menu. Working one's way through the menu and trying everything once was easy, now that we have come almost through round two, how I hope that something better comes along. I suspect there are structural reasons why we cannot change [indeed, I am almost certain what they are and this is a REALLY silly reason].

Looking down the game tree, I see an issue on the horizon. After almost one dozen talks that are not a part of regularly scheduled seminar series [after all, in some way or other, every talk is a job talk] and nine in the space of two weeks, another dozen are scheduled between a joint search with International and Area Studies and a search in normative political theory. Without a change in the menu, the selective incentive will, at least for me, be completely underutilized because I think I would rather fast.