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These should<\/em> be easy times<\/strong><\/p>\n

The semester refuses to let go. The director of composition dumps a file folder of papers on me, which I am to read to help her evaluate one of the part-time faculty.<\/p>\n

I feel for the instructor, a “freeway flier,”<\/a> someone teaching part-time for miserable Colorado wages ($1,300-$1,500 per course) at several colleges in order to try to make a living. S\/he might be teaching as many as seven courses, which is two people’s work load for writing classes. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a former student, a “non-traditional” (in his 40s) stopped by today. He wants to enter the M.A. program.<\/p>\n

“So you can make $1,300 per class teaching in the community college?” I asked.<\/p>\n

“It beats $6 an hour,” he said. Maybe. But perhaps he could get a better-paying job in a rural high school, many of which are desperate for teachers as the Baby Boomers retire. It is possible now to be hired and then to pick up the education courses.<\/p>\n

I should be sitting back to read Alan Cameron’s<\/a> Greek Mythography in the Roman World<\/em><\/a> to learn something about how the Greek myths were massaged (and invented) to suit Roman religio-political uses. But I also need to explore why the wipers on my old Jeep CJ-5<\/a> have quit. (No, I don’t think it’s the switch or the fuse that is bad.) Jeep first, then Classics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These should be easy times The semester refuses to let go. The director of composition dumps a file folder of papers on me, which I am to read to help her evaluate one of the part-time faculty. 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