My very late Fall email to the faculty, admins, staff, and hourlies of LAHC
(By which I mean my Fall email, which is very late. Not my very late Fall email, which isn’t here yet.)
(The antecedent of which in the previous parenthetical comment is “very late Fall,” not “email,” which I sent about ten minutes ago.)
(And when I say “ten minutes ago,” I don’t mean ten minutes ago from now, whenever that is for you, because I’m assuming that the now you are experiencing as you read this is going to be in my future from my now, now.)
Hello, everyone!
I have sat in front of this email to you for more than two weeks, and I simply have not had a chance to finish writing it. One of my friends outside academia asked me what being dean was like. I responded: A rushing stream of interruptions punctuated occasionally by dean work. The beginning of this fall was more interruption than back at work.
But this isn’t about me, it’s about you. Ok, well, it’s about us.
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