It’s Alive
Apr 17th, 2008 by Shawn Hansen
Well, I’m back. I tried to stay away: I really did.
I have lots of things on my plate, and there is even more where they came from, so I made a choice: no more The Pissed Off Professor.
Who needs cyber-idiots e-diots showing up and mucking with a perfectly good, perfectly logical rant?
Who wants to have battle after battle of wits with unarmed people?
Not me, I said over and over to myself. No. Definitely NOT me.
For awhile, it worked. I’ve kept busy—very, very busy.
I approached the current semester with more of an if you don’t care about your education, neither do I attitude, and I added a serving of my way or the highway to the mix. After all, there are plenty of other classes for the excuse-ridden and lazy to invade.
I even loosened up my paper policy and added some extra credit to the mix.
But NOTHING works.
Lazy, argumentative, ill-prepared students are being spawned at a rate of speed that needs to be saved for the dwindling Salmon population.
I began getting e-mails and posts asking where I was, and while I had brief moments of wistfulness, I resisted the urge to return.
Then, yesterday happened, and everything became clear: I had to come back. I had to post this thing. It’s bigger than me. Bigger than any of us.
It may be the most idiotic thing EVER.
So, I’m back, and in a day or two, once the shock of my return wears off, I’ll spill the beans about THE INCIDENT THAT PROMPTED MY COMEBACK.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. The more people I meet the more I like my cat.
Still waiting to hear about the incident that prompted your comeback…