Check out my photograph, Erqi, in GUD Issue 6.

This morning has been a morning of great clumsiness even for someone as typically clumsy as I am. First, I slipped coming out of a toilet stall in the foreign language building. (I have a bruise on the palm with which I caught myself, and I’m sure the story had made its way around all to all the students in the department.) Then, I nearly toppled over my chair in the teachers’ office while wheeling it around to talk to someone. Naturally, this led to a lot of kidding about how I need to stop drinking before class, to which I responded that the problem was that I insisted on teaching sober. It’s like how it takes a while to shake off your sea legs when you get back on land, right?

In fact, I’m surprised that I managed to avoid falling down in front of my classes given the kind of morning it was. In both rooms, I teach from a slightly elevated platform, and in one of them, the platform runs out before the chalkboard does, which has led to a couple near misses already this semester (and the second week isn’t even complete as yet).

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