He tries to pump his fist in the air like he’s a pro football player, but he looks more like a lame college professor trying to hail a cab.
– Laurie Halse Anderson, WINTERGIRLS (the Advanced Reader Copy, so not the final version sold in stores).
In today’s Wednesday Words, the narrator Lia is speaking of her bigshot history prof father, and it’s worth noting that the paragraph preceding this was as follows:
“Excellent,” he says. “My editor is extending the deadline and she’s giving me another advance to pay for a research trip to London.”
N.B.: Do not enter academia thinking that you will get a book deal that pays for research trips to London. This will not happen to you. If you are a successful tenure-track or tenured professor in a book-writing field, however, you may get to write some books with print runs of about 1,000 copies. Dream big.
Posted in Academia Has Ruined My Mind, Anderson, Laurie Halse, Wednesday Words, Wintergirls
