Photo by Flickr CC user Joseph Gray; model, Sara Foust

So my friend Tim comes to visit. I don’t let just anybody into the office today because I am in official Grading Hell (all grades done, but not all comments completed–this is how I torture myself), but Tim is not just anybody. He’s the Knight in Shining Technical Armor. He’s the one who rescues everybody in my Department (but especially me) when strange intergalactic stuff enters my hard drive. Or whatever it is that happens when my computer stops working.

Anyhow, today Tim stops by not because I have called, miserable and cajoling or even calling with an offer of homemade food (which I do often use as an excuse to keep him happy and to grab his company) but because he wants to announce, with some bitterness, that it is Rokjesdage.

I think maybe he had…

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