She was an exceptional graduate student, though she published only two book reviews before graduating.
She never thought she'd get a job at a research university, but she did.
She always said she'd never leave school without finishing her dissertation, though life had other plans for her.
She thought search committees would find her "silly," but they didn't.
She knew that her work--and her colleagues'--deserved more attention than it received, though she tired of searching for such sites that would afford such recognition.
She was hired to help develop a curriculum in her area of expertise, but her devotion to such development hindered her ability to publish.
She published essays and produced "creative activity," except she doesn't believe that reviewers appreciate her/the work of the field.
She built a place for her colleagues to publish their undervalued work, though this place doesn't help her advance her own.
She's going up for tenure this year, but all she hears in her paranoid head are her senior colleagues saying, "You're going down."
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