Tuesdays are crazy for me. I’m out of the house by 7 am, I prep my courses until 9:30, then I teach 3 classes one after another with no breaks to speak of.
Then I rush home, answer the advising / the association / the union / the sorority related emails, pack up Klara’s dinner and ballet outfit, rush to the daycare, change Klara into ballet gear, drive her to the dance school while she eats her dinner in the backseat, stare stupidly and happily at a wall for the 30 minutes that the class lasts, and then drive her home. She is of course full of energy after the class and eager to have fun. N comes home after 9 pm on Tuesdays, so the evening routine is on me.
So in the midst of all this crazy rushing, I ask my device to tell me the news and it regales me with a story from the NYTimes where an individual endowed with extreme chirpiness informs the world that a border wall is a bad idea because “it promotes borders and divisions between people.” The idea that such smug cluelessness exists is hard to contemplate in and of itself. But having it inflicted on you in the midst of a very busy day is beyond aggravating.
Since when does “news” stand for “very simple-minded and aggressively ignorant people opining obnoxiously on issues completely beyond their meager powers of comprehension”?
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Advising? Are you a program director?
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No, we all share advising, so it’s all fair and the load is equal.
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Ok sorry, I didn’t know what it is.
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I tell our majors which courses to take every semester to graduate on time. It helps that I know everybody in person and what their Spanish is like.
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Which is different than here in English majors because of the advanced English requirement to enter.
PS: this is my second week in my English lit course, Jane Eyre is not too bad.
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Good luck with the course! Jane Eyre requires a huge vocabulary but you totally can do it.
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So in the midst of all this crazy rushing, I ask my device to tell me the news and it regales me with a story from the NYTimes where an individual endowed with extreme chirpiness informs the world that a border wall is a bad idea because “it promotes borders and divisions between people
Wait, you have an Alexa/Siri/Google Assistant now?
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Yes, it’s the Alexa. It’s my fault for connecting the stupid NYTimes news report.
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You do realized that you’re doomed now, don’t you? It’s tracking your every move and word, and will eventually send all of that evidence to the Deep State authorities.
Klara and your readers will miss you.
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I’m sure Alexa is cursing the digital gods for sending her to a place where she gets to play “The Ring around the rosy” fifteen times in a row every day.
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