Entertain me so I have something to do on Monday morning.

[slemslempike]

[Poll #498770]

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[debodacious.livejournal.com]

Degree stifficate is perhaps somewhere in the house; probably in my desk but it could be in storage or at my mama and papa's house. It has only ever lived in a manila envelope. I boycotted my degree ceremony for reasons which I no longer recall.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I refused to wear the hat at my graduation ceremonies. (They said that men could take theirs off "if they wanted" but women had to keep theirs on.) If I get a PhD though, and it's floppy, I'm wearing that.

I know where my stifficate is through having to photocopy it for applications. If that hadn't happened, then it would be a vague somewhere in a room.

[debodacious.livejournal.com]

Glasses are rim down in our hotel bar, apart from a few old ones in a display cabinet in the hallway with a bit of silver and old china.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Is it health and safety to put them rim down? Or just balance? I noticed that most bars and restaurants have them rim down.

[debodacious.livejournal.com]

Probably it's to keep them clean. I don't think it's an official health and safety thing or just good practice.

[altoidsaddict.livejournal.com]

I keep my regular kitchen glasses in a cabinet in the kitchen, but the drinking glasses - Pilsners, shot glasses, etc., and tea mugs - I keep in a china hutch.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I hadn't thought of special glasses, since the fanciest glass in my kitchen is a Ikea glass, which is the only glass object among a sea of plastic picnic glasses. Althoughy I do have a rather swish plastic lilac wine 'glass'.

[kylegirl.livejournal.com]

I checked "in a special folder," but "somewhere, probably," would also have been accurate. I don't know exactly where it is, but they gave it to me in a fancy folder and I presume that it is still in its fancy folder, wherever that fancy folder may be (probably my dad's attic).

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Nice! We got ours a few weeks after the degree ceremony, in a hardbacked manilla envelope. Maybe this accounts for the lack of UK people displaying their certificate - if it doesn't come fancy already, it's less likely to become fancy. (In this poll, which is obviously a true and representative sample.)

[kylegirl.livejournal.com]

Obviously a true and representative sample. But actually I know at least a few USians who got their diplomas day of the ceremony, rolled up and tied with a ribbon. That might also encourage some kind of framing/preservation sort of thing, since of course it wouldn't last very long if you stuck it in a drawer all rolled up.

[ornery-chick.livejournal.com]

All of my glasses are in the cabinet to the right of the kitchen sink.

My diplomas/certificates are on top of one of the bookshelves, I think. there or else in the bottom drawer of my desk, or in that blue box in the basement. Buggerit, I know they're around someplace in this house.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

There seem to be only two people in the poll who have glasses lower than counter height. I wonder why - I suppose they get used quite often, and if you're standing, it's easier to stretch up than bend down.

[ornery-chick.livejournal.com]

Well, below my counters are kind of murky and dim and raggedy...the shelves are an impromptu affair, and a large part of the space directly under the sink is taken up with archaic plumbing.

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

Much of the time drinking glasses pass directly from draining board to wherever I'm pouring out the wine (cheapo supermarket glasses because I always break glasses anyway; frequently replaced to keep up the numbers because I still haven't managed to build up a suitable work ethic to wash up after every meal for one person)

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Currently we only have one non-plastic glass in the whole house, which saves on breakages, but is less inspiring for wine occasions.

It seems like such a waste to expend all the energy and water on washing one plate and a pan or two. I think, morally, that it's better to let it pile up.

[sangerin.livejournal.com]

My degrees have all been framed now, but are sitting in my room (at my parents' place) leaning against the wall. Eventually I intend to bring my Law degree up to Sydney and hang it in my office. Also my (NSW) admission certificate - my Victorian one, my Arts degree, German diploma and Grad Dip in Legal Practice will stay at my parents - some of them on our family degree wall - until I get my own place where I can hang things on the walls (one of the things I hate about renting...).

My wine glasses are on the bottom shelf of a wall cabinet: my water glasses are on the middle shelf of the same wall cabinet.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Did your degree certificates come in a manilla envelope, or in a fancy folder? I'm just wondering if how they arrive affects what you do with them afterwards.

[sangerin.livejournal.com]

The Grad Dip and the Victorian Admission certificate came in postal tubes; the NSW one came between two pieces of cardboard, couriered across from the court. The three from Uni were handed to me, in sort of plastic cover with the Uni logo and gold string so that they could be tied up in a tube.

Stifficatz

[tabouli.livejournal.com]

Gah. The piece of paper which proclaims my survival to the end of the torment that was PhD (shudders) is shoved in between a filing cabinet and a bookcase in total obscurity, so that my walls can be covered with far more inspiring things, like holographic circles of pink and gold contact in a winding trail...

Re: Stifficatz

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Hee! I do like the sound of the holographic circles.

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

I know where my certificates are because I haven't moved them since I got home from the library where I'd been photocopying them. They're in an ordinary plastic folder, shoved down the side of the wardrobe. I had a panic when I discovered that I had to photocopy them to send to prospective employers - it turned out that they were in a drawer at my parents' house and had to be posted to me in a hurry.

Glasses are in ordinary kitchen cupboards at about head level, by the sink. Wine glasses on the top shelf and tall glasses behind the tea (I'm not sure why - I think the tea expanded into the space created by broken glasses) in one cupboard, and short glasses and pint glasses fighting for space with mugs in another cupboard. Incidentally, does anyone know where I can buy pint mugs? I used to have one but it met a saucepan rather too hard some time ago.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

The only place I've ever got pint glasses from is the student bar on campus. We returned some of them in the amnesty! Or, you'll just have to go to as many beer festivals as possible and buy the glasses there. S'where my parents have theirs from.

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen proper pint mugs at beer festivals, only offical festival glasses. Mind you, I'm generally more interested in the beer than the glassware.

[debodacious.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to check you got the Amazon voucher.

And to wish you a happy birthday. Hope you have a great day and lots of cake.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Yes, thank you. Is there anything you'd like me to look out for you to make up the balance?

Thank you!

[birdsflying]

My AVCE certs are..somewhere. I'm assuming in a folder. I'll put my BSc somewhere where I can find it when I get it, unless I get my first with honours, in which case my parents will probably frame it. The same goes for any future qualifications.

My glasses live in with my flatmates's glasses in the bottom shelf of a high wall cupboard. They're stacked in three or two depending on whether they're glasses or mugs. Pint glasses and shots live on the top shelf. Unless they're my LotR shot glasses in which case they're in my room. I do store them rim down occasionally as an automatic reflex from barwenching but don't like to do that unless I can get plastic mesh for between the glass and the shelf.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

It never occured to me to do anything with my certificates. My family don't seem to - I wonder why. Plus, if I put things on my walls, there's less space for bookshelves.

[netgirl-y2k.livejournal.com]

My mother has put my higher results up on the wall of the downstairs loo, opposite the toilet. That's how my mother expresses parental pride.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Hee!

[blindfish.livejournal.com]

No certficates yet but I had a meeting about summer reading for my disertation topic, which is witch craft and the end of time. Yay quite excited and scared. I store my glasses on the middle shelf of my cabinet btw.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

That sounds fascinating! What's your background, are you looking at it from a Wiccan perspective?

Completely forgot about middle shelves. Oops!

[sammywol.livejournal.com]

Don't know if you really care or not but we have so many glasses they are kept in a variety of places: all shelves of a wall cabinet, in a box on top of the wall cabinet, in a box we haven't unpacked but really should, at my parents' house in a box we haven't unpacked but really should, and last and most importantly, in the dishwasher, oh, and rim down, absolutely.

If this is more than you needed for your Monday pleasure then blame leedy's birthday wishes sent me here. Happy Birthday by the way!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much!

Gosh, that is a lot of glasses! Do you collect them, or just drink a lot?

[sammywol.livejournal.com]

Err yes. We like glasses. We also have p**s all storage so those on the wall are only those we use regularly. We also had to get a lot of new glasses when we got the dishwasher as most of the old were not dishwasher safe but were also too nice to get rid of. As to dipsomania the problem is variety of beverage not quantity: shot glasses, whisky, wine, tall glasses, tumblers, baby safe glasses, smoothie glasses and so on. We did give a lot away - promise. OK, OK I admit we may have a slight acquisition habit here.

[listersgirl]

My two degrees are framed, and leaning against a wall in the bedroom closet. Or possibly under the bed. I'm not sure.

One day, I will have an office, and then they will go on the wall.

And the regular drinking glasses are on the bottom shelf, and wine etc. glasses are on the top shelf.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I hadn't even thought about framing mine until I was flicking through friendsfriends and saw someone mention theirs. I think that the uni sells special frames, but I'd always wondered why. Maybe it's a family thing, even my grandfather doesn't have his on the wall (although he does have some kind of award, but not an academic one), so it's not expected.

[listersgirl]

My dad bought me the frames; it would never have occured to me. Neither of my parents finished their degrees (although I think they were each within a year of graduating before they ran off to the frozen north), so I think they were particularly excited about mine.

[protoainsley.livejournal.com]

Interesting; I wouldn't have thought not to. I have the double-matted frame because my mother insisted on buying it, but...that's what you do with diplomas. You frame them.

Of course, mine is quite large. I noticed my best friend, who went to a less prestigious uni, had hers in the folder-thing the uni provided for it at the ceremony (the diploma itself came later); that folder-thing was like what we had our high school diplomas in.

Now I'm wondering how much of this has to do with the size of the piece of paper. Mine's too big to stick anywhere much. It's not huge huge, but large enough that it's not easily protected.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

How big is your diploma? Mine's A4 (portrait), and I've never seen any bigger than that.

[protoainsley.livejournal.com]

Mine is indeed larger than A4, if I'm converting inches to millimeters correctly, which I'm rather certain I am. It's 12x14--not much larger, but still larger. It won't fit flat into my desk or either chest of drawers, or on or in any other piece of furniture I own (other than my bed). I could either keep it in the envelope in which it arrived or buy something in which to store it, neither of which would be durable enough to survive living with me.

In comparison, the friend I mentioned above? Hers seems to be 8x10, which is smaller than our paper standard of 8.5x11, and thus can be stored easily almost anywhere.

[chiasmata]

Every now and then I decide it is the Best Idea ever to store my glasses and mugs rim side down in the cupboard. Because otherwise, they get all dusty and then I have to wash them again, which is just silly. But it never lasts more than a day or so... Ah dear.

As for what kind of cupboard they live in, at the moment it's a wall cupboard on any shelf that takes my fancy. At home, I can't remember. My mother had a kitchen reorganisational moment about a year ago and as with everything else that's changed since I went to uni (the advent of recycling, the second fridge, rules regarding which dog's allowed where and when) I can never remember the new system but default to the old. Which drives my parents nuts...

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Either I don't notice dust, or they're never in the cupboard long enough to gather any.

[alltheleaves.livejournal.com]

I use clean kitchen roll to store my glasses on rim down, I don't like putting them straight down in the cupboard. Quite often I just put them in before they're dry so they dry better that way, I was taught when working in pubs that you should never dry the insides of glasses with tea towels.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Why - because it's easier to break glasses that way, or something else?

[alltheleaves.livejournal.com]

I think it was about hygiene. Unless you're using a clean towel every time you dry the glasses you don't know how clean they are. And when the towel might not be clean and you put it inside the glass and that's what people are drinking out of, it was apparently a bad thing to do. So glasses are always left to dry on their own

[sabethea.livejournal.com]

MY glasses are kept in something that I think was supposed to be a vegetable rack, but isn't used as one. They're rim down to stop stuff falling into them, which seems a good reason to me.