Dispatches From Adjunct Faculty at a Large State University

by E Wayne Ross on February 20, 2008

New post from Oronte Churm at McSweeney’s:

Dispatches From Adjunct Faculty at a Large State University

D I S P A T C H 16
On Ghosts.
By Oronte Churm

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London was cold and wet. Starbuck and I needed a place to rest, get warm, and have some juice and a coffee. But I was asked to leave one café because it was a betting shop in disguise—no children allowed—and a second because the owner said Starbuck’s collapsible stroller would take up too much room, though the place was empty. On the streets, every English granny in town glared at me for having a toddler out in public. Glancing around furtively, I did what any American under siege abroad would do—I went in a McDonald’s.

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