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Wednesday, September 01, 2004
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UD's FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
The customary approach here is to assure your reader that even though you've taught at a university for decades, you're still a nervous wreck on the first day of fall semester classes. UD is not a nervous wreck. Her main source of anxiety is whether she can find marginally acceptable business attire in the hours before her class meets. Her class meets in one of the new weird time slots -- 2:20 - 3:35 WedFri -- that her university has this year adopted in an effort (UD figures) to make better use of facilities. Before that, she'll go to her local mall for her traditional dash through department stores. UD has always bitterly resisted dressing up, and certainly "professor" is one of the few jobs where expectations are low along these lines. But even UD feels compelled to punch herself up a bit for the beginning of the academic year. As the semester progresses, her look will collapse. Off I go. |