Clarissa's Blog

. . . is what you will keep encountering.

I’m very bad at waiting to find out what will happen. For me, any news is better than no news. And for some mysterious reason, I always find myself in situations where I have to wait, wait, wait to find out what to expect.

To give just one example, everybody knows what their teaching assignment will be for next semester except me. I won’t go into detail because it’s too boring but there has been a bureaucratic glitch and now neither I nor the Chair of my department know what my teaching schedule will be like. (This entire brouhaha happened because our administrators think that all professors are interchangeable and can pick each other’s courses at the drop of a hat.)

So I’m sitting and waiting. And it’s always like this. First I waited for my immigration papers, then for more immigration papers, then for article acceptances, then for the MLA job list, and so on, and so forth.

I feel like my entire life is about waiting for something to happen.