Drink, Grade, Cry

Graduate school: welcome to a life of liminal spaces, problematic assertions, and weeping over a stack of comp papers.

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When a girl tries to read her entire seminar paper to the class

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When a student tries to tell me how to teach

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When a student asks for an extension on the last day of the semester

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Students emailing me with questions two hours before their final paper of the semester is due

Me

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When I look at my grindr messages

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When a student says he agrees with Tal Fortgang

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When my university still hasn't paid me for extra work I did two months ago

And I'm like

american horror story: school

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Turning in my final paper of the semester

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When I hear a theatre professor say that Meryl was miscast in August: Osage County

And I'm like

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When my professor suggests we hold our last class at a bar

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When I go to sleep after turning in my last paper of the semester

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When the department schedules a three-hour meeting on my day off

And I'm like

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When my friend is hitting on a guy who's obviously gay

And I'm like

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When my classmates and I saw our Post-Modernism grades

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When I get to teach a gay novel

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When someone brings a baby to seminar