Jan. 14th, 2008 04:31 pm
Collegiality
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muckefuckFinally had to send my student employee downstairs to file so that we could get some damn work done. He's extremely sharp and affable (pretty much the polar opposite of Zombie Boy), so I need to stay on my guard lest he get me started on one of our many common subjects of interest. I must be a little off my game today, but telling me about his Chinese architecture class was really hardball. I mean, I was in the Forbidden City just three months ago!
We wandered from that topic to family history...hmm, how did that happen? Oh, right: Chinese architecture > Chinese Muslim architecture > Kaifeng Jews > family traditions. He was telling me how his grandmother used to read from his grandfather's journal of being stationed in Burma during WWII. Of twenty-one men who trekked back to India with him after the destruction of their post office, only three others survived. He only made it because of a big ol' Punjabi Sikh who used to shelter him from frigid mountain downpours by standing over him. HOW AWESOME IS THAT?
You see what I mean. How am I supposed to concentrated on transfers and what-not with distractions like this?
We wandered from that topic to family history...hmm, how did that happen? Oh, right: Chinese architecture > Chinese Muslim architecture > Kaifeng Jews > family traditions. He was telling me how his grandmother used to read from his grandfather's journal of being stationed in Burma during WWII. Of twenty-one men who trekked back to India with him after the destruction of their post office, only three others survived. He only made it because of a big ol' Punjabi Sikh who used to shelter him from frigid mountain downpours by standing over him. HOW AWESOME IS THAT?
You see what I mean. How am I supposed to concentrated on transfers and what-not with distractions like this?
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