[Spring is less lonely than autumn. The campus is unthawing, which sounds like it should be beautiful but mostly means that the paths are full of mud and slush, that it rains too much and still snows sometimes, that no one leaves their homes with the correct number of layers on.
Everyone's lighter anyway.
Spring break is far enough away that torrent of projects and assignments that usually accompanies it are only just beginning to gather momentum, and Betty lives close enough these days to hear them out late in the evening practicing for their clubs and chatting with their friends. It's like the extra bit of sun lights up everything, and she drinks it in as much as anyone else. She could live like this, maybe, like the world isn't waiting to end, like she isn't waiting for... anything. Living suspended until she forgets what it's like to live any other way. Even the emails. It could be okay.]
I'm not a frightening woman! I'm very nice! You're lucky this virtual, pal. That's a perilous line you're walking.
But yes, I'd say I'm sufficient and they're mostly good kids, so I don't think I'd mind doing this again. Grading is terrible, though. Next time I want a TA.
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Everyone's lighter anyway.
Spring break is far enough away that torrent of projects and assignments that usually accompanies it are only just beginning to gather momentum, and Betty lives close enough these days to hear them out late in the evening practicing for their clubs and chatting with their friends. It's like the extra bit of sun lights up everything, and she drinks it in as much as anyone else. She could live like this, maybe, like the world isn't waiting to end, like she isn't waiting for... anything. Living suspended until she forgets what it's like to live any other way. Even the emails. It could be okay.]
I'm not a frightening woman! I'm very nice! You're lucky this virtual, pal. That's a perilous line you're walking.
But yes, I'd say I'm sufficient and they're mostly good kids, so I don't think I'd mind doing this again. Grading is terrible, though. Next time I want a TA.