Today was adjunct orientation day. They served chips with guacamole and salsa. Also cookies--you know, the big round kind that are actually the size of four normal cookies. The people at this college seem really nice. There was quite an assortment of individuals at this orientation. A woman with a turban and also a man with a turban. Hers was white and his was orange. They were not there together. There was also a man with a very red face. The registrar was very helpful, and she was sort of half sitting, half leaning on a desk which was really a long table. Then a man with a gray ponytail and beard walked over to her and pulled her plate of food away from her coat which was soaking in the guacamole. She said "Oh! Thank you!" He said,"Well...you did get some on you." And she went right back to her presentation about midterm grades and IIW (instructor initiated Withdrawal). I was more in the mood for IWW after the provost thanked all of us adjuncts profusely for our "service," explaining that we teach about 60 percent of the classes and "generate 60 percent of the credits..." he told us how much they appreciated us. He said they wanted to do all they could to help us and someone (pas moi) muttered "how about some more money." I met another adjunct today who was very young and seemed quite nice. She just finished her dissertation on "middle voice." I asked her, "Does that have anything to so with the Middle Passage?" I am not sure she will speak to me again. Oh well. Seriously, folks, I am looking forward to meeting the students here. I will be teaching technical writing and composition. My aim is to simplify the tech writing class and complicate the composition class. There go flukes!