My stress levels are sky high right now, I occasionally emit an uncontrollable moan as I sit in my office, and I’m backlogged in grading still. But somehow, it could still be much, much worse.
I’m sorry, Professor Wilson, your situation does sound truly terrible, but am I bad if I say it made me feel so fortunate and happy about my situation? It’s all relative. There’s always somebody who’s got it worse.
I don’t understand why having COVID doesn’t put him in quarantine. I hope the office hours are zoom conveyed not in-person.
That is disregarding all the other issues that makes it incomprehensible he is not on medical leave for the rest of the year.
I don’t understand. I am nobody
Wish him well, being so committed to teaching despite his personal difficulties. Good luck, sir.
re 1:
oops, rereading the OP I see I missed the office hours are with TA, not the professor himself. my bad
Sorry, but I can’t help wonder if being shot, having covid and dealing with a messy divorce are all somehow related. THAT would be a mess…
And I think being shot is against everyone’s “best wishes”.
There are two English departments with 3610 course numbers, UVA and Nebraska (a linguistics course) neither seems to have a Prof Wilson. Oh well, I guess it was fatal.
Is this for real?
I put Patrick Wilson English Professor into Google and got a few hits. There is a link to twitter. He also is an English instructor in Georgia.
Looks like someone’s attempt at humor.
There is also a reply on twitter from the same guy.
Hello all,
It seems my last email went viral on the internet. I apperciate all the replies letting me know. Fortunately, the injury wasn’t serious and none of my Covid symptoms are serious. The exam is still Monday and it is asynchronous. Unlike my wife, I expect you not to cheat. Good luck to all.
Best, Prof. Wilson
Harry Harrison wrote a SF novel , “Deathworld”, where all organisms were striving to kill human life.
I think those hidden “reptilian” aliens have started to rerraform (exoform?) parts of the US.
(That might also explain the rise of awful politicians- they are bioweapons intended to make the place inhospitable by spreading the use of handguns, favoring emerging diseases and global warming)
Why does Prof. Wilson’s wife expect his students to cheat?
Does that school’s English have another Richard Roberts/Jerry Falwell Jr situation?
Perhaps that injury is more serious than the professor apprehends, if it has caused such syntactical slippage.
I presume it was his estranged wife who shot him.
My father used to say,
“I mourned the fact, I had no shoes,
until I met a man who had no feet.”
Or as Willie Nelson sang (I think it’s a cover)
@11 As the inimitable Roy Zimmerman and the Foremen sang:
“I was feeling sorry for myself
Because I had no shoes..
But then, I met a man who had no feet
And I said, “Friend…
Can I have your shoooooooes?”
@#12, PaulBC:
Reminds me of Tom Paxton’s Monday Morning in Paradise.
@14 It’s the opening of The Last Thing I Needed. The rest is OK and Willie Nelson’s singing is great as always, but I mostly just like this part.
He expected his wife to cheat?
Or his wife expects people to cheat (and is seldom disappointed)? I don’t know…
@12- PaulBC
Just a couple days ago while putting stuff in my car I managed to tip my coffee container over onto the passenger side floor. Luckily it only leaked a little. F-bombs were uttered loudly.
Over the past months I’ve managed to spill coffee and then clam chowder into the top of my stove. That was fun, but at least I wasn’t shot, COVID +, and suffering marital woes. Just clumsy and thankfully not singing “Hello walls”.
I chortled at “Unlike my wife, I expect you not to cheat.” when I saw it on twitter. Boo to all the grammar purists and curmudgeons in the comments, this was the the best way to write what the author wanted to express, precisely because it takes a minute to figure out he’s implying his wife cheated on him and gives it more than just a tone of sarcastic bitterness, but also a hopeful suggestion of offered trust. Anyway, Boo to you I say. Boo.
=8)-DX
=8)-DX @ # 19 – And a Happy Halloween to you too!