In my office yesterday... (oops... we're LIBERAL ELITE EDUCATORS)...

[DrZeeLit]

I am an adjunct professor of English, which is basically a nice way to say "no benefits, have a good time anyway."
I share an office with quite a few other adjuncts who usually are not all in the office at the same time. The admin is very good at figuring out who will be "in" and assigns offices accordingly.

Well, this year... not exactly.
So I'm in this little office with four professors.
And we are all in complete, jaw-dropping, pissed-off mode about this whole "Vee Pee" (imagine S.P.'s grating voice and you got it) thing.
Of course we are all brilliant. SARCASM.
But we do have a lot of years and a lot of political expertise on our side. A couple of my colleagues and I have worked for several political organizations over our lives.

We are horrified so much that we don't even curtail our conversation when a student comes in for some writing help.
Finally, we ask him, point blank, what he thinks of this whole Vee Pee mess.

And, you gotta love it... you gotta thank the gods for it... you gotta take a lot of HOPE from it...
Here's his reply:

"I'm not even interested. I'm voting for Obama."

He said this with such conviction and with such a "duh" sort of matter of fact finality.

Are you listening America? The college vote is important. We have sought these young adults and we have registered them and they are ready.

In a day where I kept wondering who was going to step up and YELL to the RAFTERS "the empress has no clothes," I finally felt quiet satisfaction.

Take heart.
Even the freshmen are not fooled all the time.

"I'm not even interested. I'm voting for Obama."

[Teaser]

1. another adjunct here

some dude in a chem class I taught last night wanted to get home in time to see the convention.
He didn't seem like a Gooper, but this is a conservative Catholic college, so who knows.

[Fumesucker]

2. The Triumph of the Will live is an interesting thing to see..

Watching it implode like I think it did last night was a fascinating exercise in dystopian vision.

[watercolors]

3. I have 3 grandsons in college, all registered to vote

They will vote Obama for sure, I also have grandson in AF and he is also on the bandwagon. My 2 grandaughter turn 18 this month and are so anxious to regeister to vote, in fact excited about it. Obama is their choice also. I am indeed a pround grandparent!! Beleive me the young vote is there.

[enlightenment]

4. I teach history (adjunct)

and most of my student's are utterly clueless. They don't read news, watch TV (any TV, apparently - it must interfere with their cell phone reception) or even look at news on the Internet. Most are registered to vote, however . . . mostly because they were encouraged by older people (like teachers) to do so.

I'm not fooled, but neither am I convinced that the college vote is going to be as impressive as we would like to believe. That old saw "you can lead a horse to water . . ." definitely applies in this case. They have the ability - whether or not they will use it remains to be seen.