Grace Notes

GRACE NOTE: n. in theater, a small gesture, evocative of character. / GRACE: n. unmerited divine favor. / NOTE: 1.v. to observe with care. 2.v. to preserve in writing. 3.n. an informal record.

Thursday, September 09, 2010

Bad to Worse

You know what's bad? When you are in the middle of teaching your 11:45 class, and the realization dawns on you--sinking with the certain inexorability of a weighted corpse dumped into still waters--that the class actually started at 11:30, which explains why all of your students were already seated when you arrived.

You know what's worse? When this realization happens to you on the second day of class.

(I mean, I'm just saying. Hypothetically, you know. Not that this happened to anybody specific. Certainly not anybody up for tenure this year.)

5 Comments:

Blogger Erin said...

ha ha ha!

Thu Sep 09, 02:10:00 PM EDT  
Blogger Maura said...

this cracks me up. did your students think it was funny?

Thu Sep 09, 02:27:00 PM EDT  
Blogger Tara said...

They did. They were really nice about it, though (probably the bitter ones had left by the time I arrived). Anyway, I am totally taking them some doughnuts or something next Tuesday. At, ahem, 11:30.

Thu Sep 09, 07:52:00 PM EDT  
Blogger Julie said...

Tee hee. I've done things like this. And you've got so much going on these days :)

Sun Sep 12, 08:18:00 AM EDT  
Blogger kate said...

OH my gosh. You poor thing!
So funny. I just didn't think of my profs, teachers, etc., having real-world concerns. But boy, do you ever!

Thu Sep 16, 10:10:00 AM EDT  

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