Thursday, August 13, 2009

The cheery predictability of it all

Soon the students will return. This is not necessarily a blessing. Some of them add sparkle and pizzazz to this town, and disturb the comfortable self-satisfaction of the average Berkeleyite. Other, unfortunately, give vent to their innate Messiah complexes, and insist on saving the world.

Given that like the priggish middle-classes here, they too are staggeringly ignorant and undeep, you can imagine how unfortunate their involvements will be.

Each academic year brings with it new and increasingly unpleasant surprises.
I look forward to this fall with trepidation.

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