I wasn't exaggerating about the snow. Seriously, I need to get out there with a shovel. But this looks a lot like how things feel these days. The college is drowning under anxiety and anger. Excesses of empathy accompany a shocking surfeit of empathy. Members of the faculty who have never bothered to learn anything about administration look silly, while the administrators who have amnesia regarding their former faculty lives look bloated. Nothing has happened yet that warrants the expressions of sympathy that are sure to sound insincere. No one has been fired. No one has had anything happen at all. There is a sickening calm about things. Searches for new faculty members proceed as if it's business as usual. The silence is deafening. The snow keeps falling, burying light.
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