I know that to normal people, the job of a history professor must seem a tad boring. Reading, writing, grading, more reading, writing, grading, and then some more of the same. But actually, my job means that I get paid to read books that include marvelous sentences like this one:
"In June 2005, representatives from the British Potato Council demonstrated outside the offices of Oxford University Press and in London's Parliament Square, campaigning for the use of the word 'couch slouch' instead of 'couch potato', which they claimed was insulting to potatoes."*
I love my job.
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*Joe Moran, Queuing for Beginnners: The Story of Daily Life from Breakfast to Bedtime (2007), p. 169.
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