Questions:
- Why, when the Greek called last night, did I not answer the phone?
- Why, when the Greek left a message, did he not leave his phone number so that I could return the call?
- Why didn't I eat breakfast?
- Why do I have to teach today?
- Why did I agree to attend a luncheon this afternoon instead of telling them to send my certificate of completion in campus mail?
- Why did I agree to attend a reception tomorrow afternoon, on paper-turn-in-day, when under non-reception circumstances I'd be in my office wearing yoga pants and sneakers?
Answers:
- Because I was wicked exhausted and when the phone rang I was asleep and drooling. Not a good state of mind for a first phone conversation.
- Because he's married? Lives with a girlfriend? Lives with his mother? Is paranoid about being stalked?
- Because the block of time reserved for "breakfast" was spent instead on "snoozing."
- Because I am being paid back for some horrible crime I committed in a past life.
- Because I am an idiot. Also because I always think that these sorts of things sound good and will make me look collegial and that they won't be painful until I have to go to them.
- Because I forgot that if I do this reception thing I'd have to dress up - at least a little.
5 comments:
If I were at a party with you and some guy was chatting you up and I knew that that guy was married, I would run up to you and say (right in front of him, mind you) in a loud whisper: "MARRIED! MARRIED!" while pointing at my left ring finger. :)
Too bad we do not have these options with
eharmony.
When I'm tenured (count chickens much? after I graduate, get a job, and then get tenured), I'm going to trade in my shave-and-necktie teaching persona for a disheveled-unkempt-genius teaching persona. Yoga pants and sneakers every day!
Medusa: I can't believe you brought up that story on my blog! Ah, memories.
Derrick and Baruch: Only on days when I'm not actually in the classroom do I dress in such a relaxed fashion, but yes, it is one of the perks of working in a university setting that I can choose to do so. But hey - we need perks - it's not like we get paid very much given all of our education and training ;)
Because I am being paid back for some horrible crime I committed in a past life.
This made me laugh SO hard! Just what I needed today! Thanks!
I'm glad I could make you laugh, Weezy :)
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