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It's like facing a firing squad.
Mar. 27th, 2007 02:07 pmIn 7 minutes, I go into a department meeting for an hour. And then, for another hour, I have to attend a division meeting.
Right then. I believe Robert Fulghum said it best when he wrote of faculty meetings:
When I speak before educational groups, I tell my "war stories" - those tales that come out of my life as a schoolteacher. When teachers ask me how I feel about my current situation, I reply that I sometimes feel sorry for myself - when I've been traveling too long and spent too much time in the public fishbowl, and I'm tired and lonely and depressed. The self-pity doesn't last long - because a little voice in the back of my head always reminds me, "You could be in a faculty meeting."
Faculty meetings are black holes that suck intelligence out of nice people's minds. I hated them so much I always sat on the floor in the back of the room and concentrated on sleeping with my eyes open. Sometimes I survived by imagining what everybody in the room looked like sitting there in their underwear.
And why can't I indent the passage above without indenting the whole damn thing?
Right then. I believe Robert Fulghum said it best when he wrote of faculty meetings:
When I speak before educational groups, I tell my "war stories" - those tales that come out of my life as a schoolteacher. When teachers ask me how I feel about my current situation, I reply that I sometimes feel sorry for myself - when I've been traveling too long and spent too much time in the public fishbowl, and I'm tired and lonely and depressed. The self-pity doesn't last long - because a little voice in the back of my head always reminds me, "You could be in a faculty meeting."
Faculty meetings are black holes that suck intelligence out of nice people's minds. I hated them so much I always sat on the floor in the back of the room and concentrated on sleeping with my eyes open. Sometimes I survived by imagining what everybody in the room looked like sitting there in their underwear.
And why can't I indent the passage above without indenting the whole damn thing?
