Departmental meetings are encounters where faculty members with grown children torture people with small children and people with short fuses. I uses to belong just to the short fuse category but now I’m in both.
The funny thing, by the way, is that N has no idea how impatient and bad-tempered I am because he never sees this side of me.
“Departmental meetings are encounters where faculty members with grown children torture people with small children and people with short fuses.”
LOL! I think this the most apt definition of a department meeting I have ever read. It needs to become the Merriam-Webster definition of the phenomenon.
It’s like they are doing it on purpose! Asking every irrelevant question, and going on every imaginable tangent while I and the other people with small kids seethe.
LikeLike
A conservative literary critic and college professor
Clarissa's Blog 
Leave a comment