Over the years I have often thought that I was working in a Banana
Republic. Without the bananas. This is the fifth day in a row that my
office phone has not worked. Its red light for the answering machine
is on, but there is no dial tone. This happened earlier last week but
the phone spontaneously repaired itself. No such luck this time.

I understand that the telephone repair staff must have a lot to do.
These phones have lots of bells and whistles to go awry. Still,
unlike most of the faculty at this time of the year, as a department
head I have to be here every day. I do have a cell phone,
fortunately. But that number is not listed in the UTC phone
directory. Come to think of it, never mind. That directory was out of
date last year. My office number was in it but not a lot of new numbers. Maybe
we should save money by going back to the old phones and use the savings
to print a new directory.

My apologies to the faculty for sending the same basic message again. I had the
wrong address before. I wanted staff to see it too.  We all work in
the same place,
though as George Orwell put it, some animals are more equal than others.

Mike Russell
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James M. (Mike) Russell
Professor & Head
Department of History
Dept. Mail Code #2052
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN 37403

Phone: 425-4579
Home: 517-0645

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