I worked in my college bookstore -- a lot of teachers had their own books as assigned reading. It's a good hustle, I guess! 😅

My students are reading some of my work (optionally) this coming week, and it's gonna be interesting to see what they do...

I’m sure they’re going to have a blast and it will be fun! It’s cute when they say things like “I like when you said….”

I have done similar to my children, and they have had the appropriate reaction: eyeroll, head shake, walk out of the room and loudly claim, “cringe!” Which is, of course, a parent’s duty to trigger.

Heck I've done this with my seniors and even made them write essays where they had to refer to me as McCall rather than DMac 😁

They’ve definitely had to write about me in the third person when they read my stuff. But I think it’s hilarious to imagine standing there and saying “Sepinwall says” 😆.

Yeah, I'd be smirking at the least if I said that :)

That's when I'm not standing on the table roaring how massive my lecture bibliography it to encourage them to cite all their sources. 😂 (yeah, I'm serious about history teaching but definitely not about myself)

I like that they call you Dmac!

When I was 28 and starting out 25 years ago, I was quite insistent on Doctor. At some point I made the shift. Very useful. Works as a first name emotionally while still giving me my props. Also really useful for former students who'd collapse from shock if they had to call me by my first name 😆

Samesies! I became “Dr. S.” at some point as I didn’t need to establish my authority with my baby face lol

I had the advantage of getting my Ph.D. late so my babyface (I looked 12 into my 20s) had already given way to a greying beard. I kind of like “Dr K” but I’ve never had students come up with it on their own...

one of these days I'll teach a class on the history of Los Angeles and do the rare double-agent version of this