TFA gives us $75 of printing and copying money for the five weeks of Institute. This is good, because English teachers print literally hundreds of pages of passages, assessments, readings, and note pages every week.
However, to use this copy money, I have to hike about half a mile across the ASU campus to the Copy Room. It’s under the business school at the Tempe campus, and it has about 100 computers, 15 copy machines, and a few printers and scanners.
This room is the worst thing I hate about TFA.
It has one rule: “No crying in the Copy Room.” That’s good, because the copy room is about as high-stress as TFA gets. People frantically run around from computer to printer to copier with no smiles on their faces and lots of coffee.
And, on top of this pressure cooker dungeon atmosphere, the technological logistics of the place are mind-boggling. Only one of the three scanners works, the printing and copying systems are not on the same contract and thus not on the same networks, which makes it hard to work with both of them, and for some reason my conference card (my ASU ID) only works on a few printers.
Oh, and on top of this, there is one magical mystery printer that prints 8 times as much as you want, and I can never remember which one that is.
It is my stressful and awful personal hell and I have already run out of printing money.
I try to avoid this place at all, but it’s sort of a requirement to, you know, have papers for my students and such.
I hate it.
peace and love from the grand canyon state,
pb
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