With just two days left "on the job" here are recaps of the two conversations I'll miss having the most as an academic in the work-a-day world...
Coworker: "So you're going to school?"
Me: "Yes"
Coworker: "So do you go to school at night?"
Me: "No. I'm done with my class work. I'm just researching and writing my thesis right now."
Coworker: "Oh."
1 week later
Coworker: "So do you go to school at night?"
Me: "No. I'm done with my class work. I'm just researching and writing my thesis right now."
1 week later
Coworker: "So do you go to school at night?"
Me: "Yes, I go to school at night."
Coworker: "Wow, you must be busy."
End Scene
Coworker: "Anthropology, eh."
Me: "Yup, Cultural Anthropology"
Coworker: "Do you ever watch Bones?"
Me: "Sometimes (I lie). She is a forensic Anthropologist. I study cultures."
Coworker: "Cultures? (pause) I thought that would be more like biology."
Me: "Not throat cultures, people's cultures."
Coworker: Oh.
End Scene
Thursday, August 16, 2007
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