Friday, January 31, 2014


Molly!


Anaheim Albert Sends In This Speedy Rant.

All of my teaching takes place on Mondays and Wednesdays. I've been teaching 12 years, and this is a schedule that makes me happy.

Yesterday, an amiable departmental assistant says to me, "It must be so nice to only work 2 days a week."

I didn't kill her. But I wanted to. Just like I want to kill anyone who says that to me. I do something for my job seven days a week. I absolutely spend hours every day of the semester working on my job, grading, reading, preparing, dealing with students.

Even during winter and summer breaks I work on this, writing, publishing, updating courses with new books, assignments, etc.

Yet, I've never met a layperson who didn't think I was just a lazy motherfucker who worked two days a week.