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Alejandro was a patient man. He’d been waiting for Deja for over a year.
It was a loaded question, Alejandro thought. There were the wet dreams and the other ones, the ones he didn’t mention to anyone, not Mike or his brothers because they were too ridiculous, too far-fetched.
These weren’t her regular office hours, and technically, Deja wasn’t even supposed to be on campus on Fridays. She was normally home, puttering around her apartment trying to work on her articles, not making any progress, and then sinking into a comfortable pit of self-loathing just in time to spend the weekend stressed out.
Too close for comfort
She knew that her family thought the life of a professor was cushy, a few classes a week, and weekends and summers off. She’d given up on trying to correct their assumptions about her life because she quite literally didn’t have time. But being on the tenure track had been hard for Deja in ways she sometimes struggled to even admit to herself. She’d expected the long hours outside of class and the heavy teaching load. She’d even been prepared by her mentors for the lack of mentorship, to a certain degree, but she hadn’t expected the uncomfortable ways she’d folded under the weight of all those
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He straightened, that sexy smile back on his face. “Good. Have dinner with me tonight?”
Its about time. Its a litte weird that he didnt just ask her out like six months ago...
All academics lie. Period.
“This might shock you, but only if you aren’t paying attention. I’m literally always worried about Deja and Marie, and Cristina in Biology, Annette in English, Sun in American Studies, and damn near every other woman of color in the College. Hell, there are some women in the Education and Business colleges I’m worried about as well because, as you know, the university keeps hiring these women of color and then throwing them to the wolves.
They do more service in and out of their departments, on and off-campus. They teach bigger service classes and get some of the worst student evals. They publish far less, and if they don’t leave before they go up for tenure — and many, many, many of them do leave and are trying to leave right now — they’re denied tenure and have to leave anyway. And the ones that make it through the tenure process are a mess.
