The rest of your winter break passes in a frenzy of preparation. You have to upend your class plans to accommodate Blankenship and adjust your office to make room for him.
Dr. Blankenship sends a message to you to find out when the two of you can plan both the Divination and Intro to Library Services classes.
It's not the role you'd envisioned for yourself, but you bet the tenure committee will care more about your research than about one Divination class. "That'll be great."
"Wonderful!" Blankenship claps his hands together. "This is going far more smoothly than I'd feared. Some professors are so territorial about their classes."
"And he is not like that at all," Alex says, "what with him marking his territory with all of these papers."
Alex Has a Point