I Blog Poetry and Prose

It was a slow and boring day in the computer lab at the Henderson Campus of the Clark County Community College, now the Community College of Southern Nevada. We--the glorified Teaching Assistance, who worked in the computer lab answering students questions or assisting them to find the answers they needed--were doing busy work. We crawled under the computer desks to make sure the electrical cords were tucked up away from the students feet. We had dusted the desks for about the third or fourth time that morning. We had cleaned the computer monitors for the fifth or sixth time. Now we were taking turns patrolling the room, watching the front desk, and working at one of the student computers in the lab. (I suspect the idea behind this last item was to make it appear that, at least, one student was using the equipment in the lab.)