Material World Girl has, on occasion, implied that she believes me to be somewhat competitive--or at least she found me to be so when we both worked for the same company. Of course, competitiveness is not necessarily a bad thing in the corporate world. I really thought I had left that sort of thing behind me, though, when I turned in my fancy building keys and Survival of the Fittest Team Captain T-shirt.
I had a small moment of insight this past week, however, when the department secretary requested that each of the faculty complete textbook adoption sheets in anticipation of the Spring semester. Dutifully, I checked my projected enrollment, carefully copied down the ISBN numbers for the books I wanted my students to pay an arm and a leg for, and marched myself and my newly completed forms into the secretary's office.
You'll just have to take me at my word when I tell you that I had no idea what I was about to say until I actually heard myself say it.
"Am I the first?" I asked.
"The fourth," she said. I was further disappointed that she didn't even bother to glance up at me as she said it.
I was almost out of earshot when I heard her add, "But you're the only one to fill them out completely."
Thereby granting, once again, all the evidence I needed to confirm that I am--indeed--still the best.
I'm emailing evidence to Material World Girl right now.
image, Shorpy Photo Archive.
I had a small moment of insight this past week, however, when the department secretary requested that each of the faculty complete textbook adoption sheets in anticipation of the Spring semester. Dutifully, I checked my projected enrollment, carefully copied down the ISBN numbers for the books I wanted my students to pay an arm and a leg for, and marched myself and my newly completed forms into the secretary's office.
You'll just have to take me at my word when I tell you that I had no idea what I was about to say until I actually heard myself say it.
"Am I the first?" I asked.
"The fourth," she said. I was further disappointed that she didn't even bother to glance up at me as she said it.
I was almost out of earshot when I heard her add, "But you're the only one to fill them out completely."
Thereby granting, once again, all the evidence I needed to confirm that I am--indeed--still the best.
I'm emailing evidence to Material World Girl right now.
image, Shorpy Photo Archive.
2 comments:
Did I say that? Obviously, my words had a lasting effect since you remember and I don't. Of course, I was so clearly right. As I have a streak a mile wide, I knows competitiveness when I sees it.
Good job. I like to see you trimuph over other people. That's the kind of friend I am.
See...all those years of hounding faculty to turn in their sheets has paid off. You might just be the secretary's new favorite. Or a suck up. I don't know.
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