Either I’m taking way too much cold medicine…
Posted on February 26, 2008 @ 5:17 pm
…or there was a camel parked in front of my office building as I left work half an hour ago. Seriously, it was just hitched to a tree. Nobody around to supervise it, no “Beware of Camel” sign. It was just there — a camel in all its dromedarian glory.
As a paranoid academic, I can only wonder…is the university providing some other professor with a camel as part of his or her contract? If so, I’m totally renegotiating for at least a burro when I go up for tenure. Or maybe an alpaca.
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I would ask for a pony.
What? I want a camel! That would be so cool. Until of course he spit in my face. That would not be so cool.
Oh you could ask for a burro and then go riding with Juan Valdez!
A burro? No way man. You want a Yak. Yaks are the new camels.
Maybe Ashton Kutcher got tired of trucks.
That’s because you’re not at Penn State. At Penn State, they get elephants. I know because I saw them parked outside the Bryce Jordan Center once while I was there. Camels… bah.
(Actually Ringling Bros. was setting up but I didn’t know that at the time.)
Sorry that this is too off topic but,
fix your freaking favicon.
Man, if there had been a camel in front of my office building I would have totally stolen it and galloped off into the sunset.
Camel envy - it’s the beginning of the end. I mean, I’m no Biblical scholar but, if that’s got to be one of the signs of the apocalypse… well, either that or something involving tapirs.
I have seen you hopped up on cold medicine before. You’re right, it was probably just another dromedary dream.