Opening Lines, Search Committees, Big Money Losses, and Spies

It's been a strange week, a bit tiring, even with less commuting back and forth between Spartanburg and Arden. We have movers coming today in Arden to take the big items that need a moving van down to the S'burg house, so last night, we got those items ready (taking stuff out of drawers, mostly). So no wonder it feels like it should be a Friday. Let me record some fragments before they slip away.--I've had several hours of extra faculty work this week; I'm on a search committee for a new Speech faculty member, a tenure track position, and it's not the only tenure track line Spartanburg Methodist College is filling. Around the nation, schools are contracting, and I am so grateful to be part of one that is expanding or holding steady in terms of enrollment.--I've been working on an assignment for the last few class meetings with my Creative Writing class. Today I'll give them a variety of first lines and sentences from published works, like Rebecca, Mrs. Dalloway, and "Sonny's Blues."…

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