The Pissed Off Professor

Thursday is People’s Day on campus, and while I don’t know what that means, I do know I don’t know why people need a special day. It seems to me people are in charge every single day of the year. (As many of my students would say, “whatever.”)

What I do know about People’s Day is that the English Department will have a table on the quad where students can pick up fliers about courses and such. (It has also been implied that baked goods may be provided to entice pupils to stop by the department’s table—simply learning a bit about the offered English courses isn’t reason enough to stop, you see.)

Since I really want my summer session English Writing 301 class to make, I have decided to work up a flyer.

I am digging back in my past to the days I used to do this stuff. It has been years. Many, many years. Plus ten. But I think I can give it a go.

This is what it has come to: I want to teach a literature course so much I am willing to spend (more of my unpaid) personal time to make a flyer. To entice students. To take a class.

I am not a whore, but I am now willing to sell a certain part of education.

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