“… Anyway, in my first proper summer in full-time academic employment, I’ve been having the same experience. A colleague did tell me before that students assumed that, even during the academic year, their lecturers hung upside down (bat-like) in the Law School when not teaching or seeing students. Perhaps. I have certainly heard the ‘enjoying your three months holidays?’ line a little too often, though it is meant well (and there are some teaching occupations where, of course, that is the correct thing to say) …” (more)
[Daithí Mac Síthigh, Lex Ferenda, 28 August]