I turned in my notice today. I informed the local administrators that I will not sign a contract to renew my tenured position at UND. It is a little early, but if I wait until I receive the contract the department will find it difficult to fill the position for another year.
It is interesting how quickly the news gets around. There were book reps in the department today and not one paid me a visit.
Standing by the side of the road,
Hitchhiking,
I began to feel invisible.
(anonymous)
P.S. – Evidently, my daughter was concerned by the tone of this point. She sent me the following:
I like this one better:
“He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.”
― Albert Camus,
― Albert Camus,