I’m in my LRW class today and our professor is freaking us out by having us fill out a weekly calendar by scheduling all of our classes, when we will work on our outlines of our classes, when we will prepare for our classes, when we will work on our papers, when we will go grocery shopping, etc. etc. etc. During the exercise, I comment that “I have a wife.” Unfortunately, I made the mistake of making this comment right after the professor finished saying, “write down when you will go grocery shopping.” Of course, the entire class seemed to take my comment as “my wife is a woman and therefore does the grocery shopping,” which is entirely not true. I think Taryn will admit that, because I recognize her very demanding schedule as a first-year teacher, I try to do most of the grocery shopping.

What I meant by “I have a wife” is that I also need to include some time for her in my schedule. Aside from the 15 hours of class, 45 hours of reading/writing/outlining, 7.5 hours of commuting, and 42 hours of sleeping per week, I would like to set aside some time to spend with my wife. Please don’t assume I’m trying to be chauvinistic. I’m not a pig - I just have bad timing.