Tuesday, November 09, 2004

the life and times of...

Imagine you are a student and imagine for a moment that a public holiday has been declared by the government. With hope creeping about your insides, you check the notice board and find the following confusing announcement:

The University shall remain closed tomorrow due to a public holiday having been declared. Classes and exams scheduled for tomorrow shall proceed as scheduled.

What would you make of such an announcement? Would you not, with a happy skip, assume that the administration had either taken partial leave of their senses or gone completely mad in their attempt to get an already delayed semester to end as soon as possible?

My own theory was that this meant, in effect, to bring you own picnic blankets to spread outside the university and sit down for classes since the entire staff, from the peons to the creepy staring temporary guard man would have the day off. Everyone but the students and the teachers.

On a happier note, today may well be 'Masters Day' on the feline calendar, with my cat giving me a great deal more 'lift' than normal, right down to following me to the bathroom and sitting in the middle of the tub observing in what I assume is a protective rather than creepy gesture.

Misha at Tuesday, November 09, 2004

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