The Mindtraveler by Bonnie Rozanski
Author:Bonnie Rozanski [Rozanski, Bonnie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bitingduck Press
Published: 2015-01-10T08:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER 9
The following week at two oâclock, one of my undergrads was leaving my office, having just persuaded me to up his grade from C+ to B- on the last exam, and Caleb was on his way in. As usual, he just barged in, pushing the student back against the door frame. Then as the young man left, Caleb closed the door, turning the sign on the door from âCome inâ to âBack tomorrow,â and dropped into the chair facing me.
There are two chairs in my office: one for me, and one for the rare visitor. Behind the battered desk stands a single precarious bookshelf crammed with physics books I havenât looked at in years. Along the adjacent wall lies a lone window so dirty I have to dredge my memory to recall what it looks out upon. The room is an eyesore. No one comes to this office for a social call except Caleb, and I wish he wouldnât.
âMy office hours go till three,â I protested.
âDonât worry your little head about it,â he said, easing himself back into the chair.
âCaleb, you are so patronizing,â I told him.
âYou feminists have no sense of humor, you know that?â Caleb shot back, his fat face looking genuinely hurt.
âOne, Iâm not a feminist. And two, your so-called jokes arenât funny. Theyâre insulting.â
âThatâs my point. You women are just too sensitive.â
âLike your âjokeâ the other day,â I continued, ignoring his comment, âabout the gene for intelligence being based on the Y chromosome. Not funny.â
âEveryone else laughed,â Caleb said, crossing his legs.
âNot everyone, and, besides, all the other people in the room were men.â
âCould be the gene for humor is also on the Y chromosome,â Caleb quipped.
âDamn it, Caleb,â I said, standing up. I never could figure the guy out. Half a dozen times he insinuates how much heâd like to get me in bed, but then he goes and insults my intelligence. Some people are clueless.
âAnyway,â Caleb chuckled. âThatâs not what I came here to talk about.â
âOkay,â I said, sitting back down. âWhat is it?â
âJanie Carr called me this morning.â
I felt a jolt of adrenalin, but 35 played it cool. âDid she now?â I said.
âShe says that she saw a man coming out of your lab last night. Must have been around nine.â
Another jolt of adrenalin, this time stronger. âWhatâs she doing, spying on me?â
âNo law against standing in the hallway of the science building,â Caleb said with a grin. âThe thing is, you didnât come out for another twenty minutes.â
âJesus, Caleb. Why are you even talking to her?â
âHey, she says you wonât talk to her. She pleaded with you, she says, to tell her somethingâanythingâbut you said no.â
âI donât have to give out information on my research until Iâm good and ready.â
âWell, thatâs why she came to me. Iâm advisor to the paper, youâll remember,â Caleb said. âAnyway, whoâs the man? Janie didnât know. Just said heâs tall. Could it beâ¦Frank?â
âI donât have to account to you for anything,â I said, folding my arms across my chest.
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