I'm Elizabeth Reese.

I'm Marjorie Punit.

This is Best to the Nest, the podcast that is all about creating strong, comfortable, beautiful nests that prepare us to fly.

Hi, Marjorie. Happy post post Thanksgiving. I know. I'm so

rested. It was such a great break. We decided not to go anywhere. Oh, yeah. So we just stayed home.

And our kids are in Chicago, but everybody was like, like, we're good. We're going to spend

Christmas together. We're good. Yeah. And we both, Ian and I really needed to just stop. I mean, the schedules have been a little crazy.

There's a lot of grading of papers. This grading of papers thing, Elizabeth. Oh, it's brutal.

But that's interesting to know, because I've always thought, like, teaching a college class would be fun if any college would like to have me.

But then the more people that I talk to about teaching a college class seems kind of like more work than I thought.

It's very hard.

I'm not looking for less work, not more work. So I don't know.

I was just reading something. So my aunt was a college professor for years and years.

She's my step-aunt.

And she's fairly well-known.

She wrote a fairly prominent book, I think, in the 80s.

Cool.

So she's very, very well-known.

And I was reading, she won a big award, and I was reading the interview with her.

And they were asking her about

retirement and she said she missed being in the classroom but the grading. It's like you talk to any

talk to any professor and they will say it's the grading. It's the grading. It's the grading.

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