I have five days total left in the office (not counting the weekends), and I can’t wait to be free. People are driving me up a wall, as if there is a conspiracy to remind me why I don’t want the administrative job anymore.
I don’t even remember anymore what it feels like to not have to write absence request reports for every time I have an appointment and come late into the office. More importantly, I don’t remember what it feels like not to have to care about:
– anybody else’s low-enrolled courses
– unattractive classroom furniture
– forgetfulness
– conflicts with students and colleagues
– tantrums
– vendettas
– dysfunctions and dishonesties.
I have my good-bye ritual for the last day in the office all planned out. I will come in after hours, walk around, and then lock the doors behind me for the last time, knowing that I no longer have to care.
It’s simply that I’m very tired of people. People are not bad people, but there are more people than I need to be around me.
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