It seems they want a piece of you, but not a piece of your mind. You don't have to give anything you don't want to give. There are people around you who will ask for more than is healthy for either of you.
Civil Twilight - Dancing With Myself (Billy Idol)
Bonus track - Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
Got granted a full semester of time to develop a medical humanities program next spring. A likely sabbatical the following fall. So the year TJ will go off to college, I will be also unmoored from my job as I know it. I used to fear flying off the earth to be this free. But I'm thinking I might sell the house too, and had a real estate agent come price it last week. This is a few blocks from campus, I could rent it then not be there much.