Best excuse I never got: “I was abducted by aliens”

My brother Bob took this photo on a recent trip to Roswell. He was NOT abducted in this hotel elevator, however.

I’m in my last semester of teaching English online for New Mexico Junior College and I have to share with you the best-ever memo I found in my inbox the other day from our dean’s administrative assistant.

“Now is a good time to compare your Canvas roster to the one in Banner (both if you have a second eight week class and to double check on your full term classes) to make sure there are no discrepancies.  It is a good idea to check several times over the semester to make sure a student hasn’t been abducted.”

I emailed back and asked if students being abducted was a common problem, it being New Mexico, which (in case you didn’t know) is home to the UFO Festival every year.

The reply was no, the admin just wanted to know if all the faculty members were reading the memos they got.

(Right. Talk about a great save.)

What a great line to use on students at the first of a new semester, though – “I will check regularly during the term to make sure none of you are abducted.”

If only I’d heard that line the first semester I taught instead of the last…

(Big news – My retooled website is scheduled to go live tomorrow and I’m SO excited! Please let me know what you think of it, and I hope to connect with more of you on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter very soon! 2014 is going to be a wild and crazy year for me, so I hope you’ll come along for the ride!)