Today’s adjunct horror stories come from two colleagues who prefer to remain anonymous. Both were lightly edited for length and clarity. Send me more! Misery loves company! Click on the “about” page for my email address. 1. They’ll Never Know I was teaching at a local college and I actually really liked the job except […]
For your weekend reading pleasure (or schadenfreude inducement if you’re one of the admins whom I suspect reads my blog), I bring you the first installment of Adjunct Horror Stories! The Seeds of Friendship and Hatred When I first started adjuncting in the early 1990s, I worked at a suburban community college. Typically, I had […]
ADJUNCTIVITIS: A NOVELLA A struggling young writer, stuck with dead-end teaching jobs he’s literally allergic to, watches glumly from Hollywood’s fringes as everyone else seems to succeed. Then a chance encounter with television’s Mr. Big changes everything—or does it? A “laugh-out-loud funny” novella of about 60 pages. HOW TO BUY ADJUNCTIVITIS: It’s available for $2.99 […]
Adjunctivitis, my novella about an adjunct desperately seeking health insurance in Los Angeles, is for sale as an Amazon Kindle Single here. If you don’t own a Kindle, you can get a free reading app here. I I had a conversation with a student writing about Bedouins in Israel. “In Bedouin culture,” she wrote, […]