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May 12, 2006
Why I Love Being Married To An Academic, Part LCMXVIII
Me (in 5:28 am getting ready for work mode): shuffle-shuffle
Bride (in classes-are-over-and-I'm-all-done-with-grading-exams-sleepyhead mode): "H-h-honey, why are you getting up so early? Oh yeah, it's Friday" (smiles and retreats under the covers)
sigh.
Posted by Mr. Bingley at May 12, 2006 07:37 AM
Comments
Bless her heart! She doesn't suffer through four Scotch lunches like you have to, either. The NERVE of her...
Posted by: tree hugging sister at May 12, 2006 09:27 AM
I drink Manhattans at lunch, silly person.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at May 12, 2006 10:11 AM
No, that's where you WORK, doofus.
Have another.
Posted by: tree hugging sister at May 12, 2006 11:28 AM
Preach it, brother! But, when classes are in, they are still at home. "Oh, but I'm grading papers!"
Posted by: Jeremy at May 12, 2006 11:32 AM
Hi Jeremy! It's a pretty handy excuse, actually, that we've used when we haven't felt like going out, and thankfully she doesn't have anywhere near as many papers now that she's teaching college as she did when she was teaching middle school.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at May 12, 2006 11:52 AM
(smiles and retreats under the covers)
She deserves her well earned vacation. A friend of mine mentioned your wife was recently awarded tenure. Congratulations.
Posted by: Prussian Tiger at May 12, 2006 12:55 PM
That is true, PT. Thanks! She most certainly does!
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at May 12, 2006 01:45 PM
"she doesn't have anywhere near as many papers now that she's teaching college as she did when she was teaching middle school."
It might be a really good thing that the college kids write less. Dunno where she teaches, but at a lot of state schools, the quality may actually be lower in college than in middle school, causing the irritation / paper coeficient to rise. I never had my high school students mistake "vile" for "vial" like the college students I wrote about. Granted I was teaching AP students shipped in to us college TAs for advanced lab work, but still...
Posted by: John at May 12, 2006 02:13 PM
Actually, while they write less and she has fewer of them, which is a lovely combination.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at May 12, 2006 02:41 PM