Office hours

And here I am, back in my cocoon, academia's shield against the crazy world. I was thinking, hobbling from the bus stop earlier, by the gods, I've been teaching here 15 years! It feels like 5 or 6, which is how askew perception of time gets as you age. Fifteen years! And not on a tenure track, this is term by term, contract by contract -- I've had dozens of contracts here! I have reasonable job security in that the class is immenselly popular, screenwriting being screenwriting, and only once did someone try to "steal" my job, a retired TV writer who moved up here. They let him start a TV writing class instead.

But things are more interesting now because Theatre Arts has started its own screenwriting sequence.  This is good because it gives screenwriting students more classes to take.