ratio

I raise my head and when the professor calls on me I ask “Are these real numbers?” She pauses and narrows her eyes, hand frozen in mid-motion on the chalkboard where she’d been writing out the tables for the various ratios she was explaining. “How do you mean?” I stand up and go to the front of the class, gesturing to… Continue reading ratio

payroll

...I find that I have overslept and am in a rush to get a stack of deposits to the University’s bank by noon, otherwise all of the faculty and staff paychecks will bounce. The deposit is a stack of checks and slips totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. There are pink and yellow carbon copies, very slippery to keep in… Continue reading payroll