He wasn’t physically threatening me. (That has happened, and over something far more stupid than this.)

Teaching is dangerous enough without guns involved.

As an adjunct with literally zero job security, you get pretty good at holding your tongue.

We’re talking about South Africa again tomorrow, and the music is all (still) about apartheid. I’ll lead off with a song called Shame, Shame, Shame.

I hope you’re right, because that might actually spell change for the law/university system.

Based solely on my anecdotal experience with first year students and their parents in another university system, however, I’m extremely skeptical that 2 and 2 will be put together before the inevitable death and lawsuit.

I tried to explain what apartheid was in a lecture about music from South Africa, yesterday, and was followed to my office by an angry student who didn’t want to hear about “any #blacklivesmatter bullshit” in a course they were paying for.

I’d teach the class in Texas, but I probably wouldn’t survive the semester.

I’d say very few.

Now, when they get there and get shot to death in lecture, there will be a lot of tears about how it’s the university’s job to protect them from this madness, but my impression is that most incoming freshmen choose school by name, rather than by safety concern.

Most news is written on a coast, and we here in the middle don’t exist, unless it’s to be the butt of a joke.

I’ve long suspected it, but this confirms the suspicion.

Don’t give him ideas.

You’re automatically enrolled in Fabletics each time you utter her name. If you don’t unsubscribe before the 5th of each month, you’re auto-charged $50 and sent an outfit.

Ditto. I was like, “Wait, didn’t we do this yesterday ... I still love that color on her.”

If she wins, it’ll just get worse.

I can’t decide which I prefer, but I think (hope?) she’s probably made her peace with it.

If they want to tell my employers things about my online activities and insurance usage, could they please let them know that I’m actively looking for full-time employment, and intend to quit at the least opportune time as a way of thanking them for putting me in this position? (Caveat: unless offered a full-time…

And I replied to them, as did about four other people.

Employment. If I do any more study, it will be online for a certificate in a field the pays. And even then it will be extremely reluctant.

Thanks, that’s nice of you!

In reality, for what I do, it’s super common, and I expected it. (It is literally one in a stack of hundreds. I used to keep track of what universities I had been rejected by, but I think now it’s like ... oh yeah, I applied there once ... or was it twice?) They tend to come in clusters, and…

When I watched this, my (now husband) had just accepted a position in rural Kansas. Which is like Omaha but you know. More rural. And Kansas.

The movie has scarred a lot of us.

They just hired someone cooler than me.

I’m not mad, but it was funny to see one of the more recent rejections in the context of this article.

I think I left the theater, bought some wine, and told my (now husband) not to call me for a few days.

I feel you.

Fuck the one. The several years of them, though, are starting to point toward the need for life changes.

I’ll do something. Just maybe not this.

You know I get it.