Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Today I'm going to add a new dimension to slacker co-teacher.

Or, to be more specific, talk about another side of him that I didn't know about until now. It concerns our new graduate/hiree.

If our new guy has to work in the office until early evening (preparing for the class the next day, for example) he usually rides with us going home. But if finishes work early, he can ride with S.C.T., with whom he can save on commuting fare further.

That is, unless S.C.T.'s car pool is already in effect, since he's already feeling the pinch of the Everest-like gas prices.

Anyway, I have always assumed that if there's a chance that S.C.T. can leave the office early he'll take it, especially since he doesn't want to get caught in the expressway traffic build up.

I also know he likes having someone to ride with who will let him dominate the conversation, which, New Guy, being respectful, allows him.

So I was surprised the other day when S.C.T. waited for New Guy until around 6pm.

Of course, there are other possible extenuating circumstances, like for example S.C.T. having to pick up wife somewhere close to that time, but somehow I believe that he has come to cherish more the fact that he has someone who will listen to all the shallow and self-glorifying things he has to say and not contradict him, and in fact may encourage him with questions. It's bad enough that I know this is the same thing that he does in his classes.

Session 2259 prolongs lectures with jokes and anecdotes so make up for the fact that there isn't much material covered, and excuses it by saying the students don't forget because of the non-related topics. Class dismissed.