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Emery shifts the weight of her satchel from one shoulder to the other. She is currently loaded down with enough papers to sink her should she accidentally fall into the harbor (a vision that she briefly has as she walks away from PCU’s campus). She is trying her best not to let it get to her but in truth, she is annoyed.
Yes, she knows she is only an associate professor at this point. She is dancing around hoping for tenure and pulling up the slack of others in the department. She wonders if twenty years from now when she is good and settled in her office if she will treat the newcomer like she has been treated. She likes to think that she is better than that. She hopes when that day comes she remembers how annoyed she is in this moment.
It’s not really fair either because she loves Classical Greek history. She would have enjoyed helping the professor put the class lectures together if he wasn’t such a jerk. She does most of the work and he takes all the credit. She is probably going to spend a good part of her night looking over one or two of these papers and he’s home watching reality TV (or at least that is how she is going to picture him).
But first...
Emery thankfully avoids falling into the water and instead makes her way into Ashford and McCall. She is hoping for a bit of an update from Curtis. She lets go of her annoyance (or does her best to hide it) as she knocks. “Hi there,” she begins with a smile as she sees him. “How goes the battle? It doesn’t even have to be mine specifically. Just the battle in general.”
