In the past few days, I have written many pages of comments on my students’ papers, paragraph after paragraph of report card comments, and five (now nearly six) letters of recommendation.
My tennis elbow– earned two years ago when I spent every spare minute typing away at my Master’s thesis– has recently (are we surprised?) returned. And just now, my eyes glazed with fatigue, I wiped at some specks on my computer screen: an array of them, origin unknown, scattered there like some archipelago of dried spittle on the glowing monitor. What could that be, I wondered to myself, stroking them gently with the sleeve of my bathrobe.
They did not remove.
And then I realized: Oh, these are just the dots over some letter i‘s. Letter i‘s that I put there on purpose. I‘s Come With Dots in the lower case, don’t you know.
Maybe I’m just tired?
