NP: No gov't; best gov't..from John Lanchester LRoB

[alice wellintown]

After I retired I could not relate to most everything that was going
on around me. So, I went back to school as an old Lady and back to
work. I doubt that if I retire a second time any one would hire me.
Although I'm a model American worker, hard working and smart, and
although I'm quite popular with colleagues and students, quite
entertaining,  and quite overqualified, and in excellent health and
shape,  I'm not worth the crappy salary and pension plus benefits they
pay me. My boss says things like, it is great that you have all these
credentials and can take anything we give you and do it well, but we
need knew blood.  But I've never missed a day of work. There is
nothing wrong with my old blood. It's not even that old. I'm younger
than my boss. So every year I find an excuse to teach Melville's
Bartleby the Scrivener. It can fit into most any AP course or college3
course I teach.   If 9/11 fell on a weekday this year I would have
taken the day. Sometimes, like when I'm spilling out some crap about
debt values I dream of walking into Cantor Fitzgerald and ....then I
think, no, I like knowing what is really going on in the world and
there is only one place I can find that reality and that is in amongst
school children.

Peace out brothers and sisters,

T&A

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
> On 9/5/2011 6:34 AM, alice wellintown wrote:
>>
>> Well, on this fake labor day, I'll say it again; Pynchon's works, from
>> the short stories to IV, are about labor. Now, I know that saying that
>> these books are ABOUT any specific or particular thing is just kinda
>> silly to the P-L crew, but I can't help it.
>>
>> Happy fake labor lay
>>
>
> Labor Day is hard for me to relate to but happy Labor Day everyone.
>
> P
>