Ten years ago this week, I taught my first class. As I waited outside the building, in new linen pants and blazer, the department chair (whom I knew from a class the previous semester) walked by and asked if I was in fact going in for the first time.
"Yup," I said. "today my first class, and in 25 years, I'll be department chair, just like you."
Pause.
"Yeeaahhhh...." he said...dubious.
Fifteen years left to make good on that promise.
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Twelve years ago this week, I walked into the first class of my first seminar. That course on Modern Drama was taught by my future advisor. I sat down next to an attractive woman whom I would later marry. How many other people do you know can claim they met two of the most influential people in their lives (in different ways) in the same moment?
3 comments:
I taught my first class 25 years ago this week ....
I'm not department chair, but then again, I don't want to be.
Congrats, and happy anniversary!
As for me, I've met some of the most influential bloggers in my life at the same moment (MLA, natch). . . but that isn't quite the same thing.
sweet post. happy (belated) anniversary.
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