I want you to know that I always give my spiders fresh, live flies.
I’m going to be handing out flies like candy today, because I have to have something pleasant to do when I go to work, and I’ll start with a meeting of the Latrodectus horde. This is it, the semester is starting now, and as usual, we start it with…committee meetings. We start today with a meeting of my biology colleagues, so at least we’ll be discussing stuff that matters. On Thursday we all meet with administrators, which won’t matter at all and just sucks more time away.
Maybe I should bring a couple of bottles of flies to share?
I don’t meet with any students until Monday. That’s so backwards — we should start the semester by engaging with students, and then later, in our spare time, the administrators can yammer at us.
When will you retire from teaching? I want to read the books you write.
“Maybe I should bring a couple of bottles of flies to share?” Alternatively you could tur the Latrodectus horde loose. I’m sure they’d like some nice fat administrators to chow down on.
Smart. If you bring flies or other yummy prey to the meeting, the administrators that are alien shape-changers from the Antarctic may give themselves away.
U. of Minnesota, Morris starts the Fall semester early.
Mid August?
My undergraduate university started Fall quarter in late September.
A late September at least means you get to enjoy a longer summer.
Summers are already too short in the northern USA