Any recommendations on what to drink when the bile in your gut starts to boil as your institution hires yet another wave of useless administrators who do nothing but consume the university's funds and mollycoddle the worst of the little shits in your classroom? Are there any choice mouth guards available for associate professors who bitterly grind their teeth as they think about how six years slaving away for a PhD now earns them zero job security and almost but not quite 40K a year?
Fun fact: Harvard now has an administrator to student ratio of just about 1:1. It's a problem everywhere, even in secondary schools now.
Honestly—for the last couple of weeks I've just been focusing on reminding myself that I haven't been flown to El Salvador and thrown into super jail. My semester has been rotten, but at least there's an end on the horizon.
(Of course during the summer I'll have the luxury of time to dwell on the overarching institutional & economic issues and allow them to exert a tidal influence on my guts and bile.)
I read the subtitle and thought for a second this would be a video game walkthrough. Has someone made "English Adjunct Simulator" yet? (And before you say "if you had the coding skills to create such a video game, you wouldn't be permadjuncting," this is literally the target audience for Twine.)
Funny you should mention video game guides. Some months ago I wrote a short story dressed up as a GameFAQs RPG walkthrough from the late 1990s. The only reason I haven't posted it here is because I can't figure out how to embed a .txt file in a Substack post. (The vibe just isn't the same with serif fonts and smart quotes.)
...Come to think of it, about a decade ago I partially mapped out a Twine game. The plan was to make it an insomnia simulator. Ended up being overambitious and unworkable. I wonder if I still have the script somewhere.
Any recommendations on what to drink when the bile in your gut starts to boil as your institution hires yet another wave of useless administrators who do nothing but consume the university's funds and mollycoddle the worst of the little shits in your classroom? Are there any choice mouth guards available for associate professors who bitterly grind their teeth as they think about how six years slaving away for a PhD now earns them zero job security and almost but not quite 40K a year?
Fun fact: Harvard now has an administrator to student ratio of just about 1:1. It's a problem everywhere, even in secondary schools now.
Honestly—for the last couple of weeks I've just been focusing on reminding myself that I haven't been flown to El Salvador and thrown into super jail. My semester has been rotten, but at least there's an end on the horizon.
(Of course during the summer I'll have the luxury of time to dwell on the overarching institutional & economic issues and allow them to exert a tidal influence on my guts and bile.)
Lol! I enjoyed it :)
Thanks for reading! I think I may have enjoyed writing it more than living it.
I read the subtitle and thought for a second this would be a video game walkthrough. Has someone made "English Adjunct Simulator" yet? (And before you say "if you had the coding skills to create such a video game, you wouldn't be permadjuncting," this is literally the target audience for Twine.)
Funny you should mention video game guides. Some months ago I wrote a short story dressed up as a GameFAQs RPG walkthrough from the late 1990s. The only reason I haven't posted it here is because I can't figure out how to embed a .txt file in a Substack post. (The vibe just isn't the same with serif fonts and smart quotes.)
...Come to think of it, about a decade ago I partially mapped out a Twine game. The plan was to make it an insomnia simulator. Ended up being overambitious and unworkable. I wonder if I still have the script somewhere.
The most important question: does this story-in-GameFAQs-drag begin with a bitchin' ASCII logo? (And if it doesn't, does it even count?)
https://patorjk.com/software/taag/#p=display&f=Fun%20Faces&t=NO
https://patorjk.com/software/taag/#p=display&h=0&v=0&f=Dancing%20Font&t=the%0Aindustrial%0Arevolution%0Aand%20its%0Aconsequences
The code format button can suffice for that. Looks like < >
I *think* I considered that, but now I don't remember why I decided against it.