Everything's fine

Only no. It isn't.

Class was over for the morning, and I was back in my office, preparing for the next in a long line of indignities that come with semester’s end. Ask any professor. We are at the point where we are eating coffee grounds straight out of the bag. Sometimes, we use a spoon. Sometimes, we just tip the bag on end.

In the hallway, a student who’d just come from…