Delightful

What I find particularly delightful is when people resign 10 days before classes begin (and a week before the start of the Fall pay period which takes mountains of paperwork to reverse).

I find it even more delightful when people refuse to sign the contract and continue bickering about its terms 10 days before classes begin, etc.

As a result of these behaviors, I will now have to teach a course on Mexican identity which I didn’t prepare because why would I prepare for somebody else’s course? And I won’t pretend I’m not excited about teaching about Mexican identity plus it pays well but I have to prepare a whole new course in a little over a week and that’s daunting.

There’s no chance the person who was originally supposed to teach this course would share their materials with me but I wouldn’t accept them anyway. We are on opposite ends of the political spectrum, and my plan for the course is not to excoriate Mexicans for being sexist-racist-somethingphobic.

Yes, a Ukrainian teaching students (a couple of whom will be Mexican) about Mexican identity is funny. But I don’t think anybody else’s identity appears in an actual course title. How cool is that?

OK, I need to quit it with the coffee for the day.