A-Z Meme

[bearshorty]

Taken from [Bad username or unknown identity: scream_queen.livejournal.com]

A is for Argument: Who is the last person you argued with and what was it about?
My neighbor, about us being noisy. She thinks it is the fault of our floors, we think it is normal apartment living.

B is for Breakfast: Do you eat breakfast? What do you usually have?
On weekdays

Comments

[unbound_spirit]

Wow, I didn’t know you were born in Minsk!
I was an adjunct prof for a long time. I think probably ten years in total, at four different colleges. I’m very glad I’m not doing it any longer!

[bearshorty]

Yes, I was born in Minsk when it was still part of Soviet Union. I was there when Soviet Union broke up when I was 11. I immigrated to US in 7th grade in 1993.

I taught writing and some history at Rutgers New Brunswick and history at Wagner College. As much as I loved teaching I'm much happier in my full time salaried job with benefits!

[unbound_spirit]

Wow My mother's family came from somewhere near Kiev, but in the earlier part of the century, escaping pogroms.
I taught at Rutgers too! At Mason Gross School of the Arts. I stopped teaching there probably around 2015 or 2016. Once I moved to PA, it was a bit of a hike for how little I was earning, haha. But I had a lot of great colleagues there and I loved my students.

[scream_queen]

Anxiety dreams about being unprepared for something seem like a common theme.

Yeah, that transition from friendly acquaintance to actual friend is really hard as an adult. I do know people who seem to be able to do it easily but I'm not sure what their secret is! I only really made friends when I was going to the local Meetup group regularly - even then it was always kind of nerve-wracking to try to take a friendship away from group events into the "outside world"!

[bearshorty]

Friendships are weird!