students

when you're a para-professional at a university and you're young like me, you pray that you don't see any of your students when you go out. so you do things like not go out to places around campus and generally seek out places that would not appeal to undergraduates. in the past, this has worked well. but since i returned from south africa, every time i've gone out (well, almost) i have seen students. i feel like for them it is like when you were in elementary school and saw your teacher at the grocery store, amazed that he or she actually had an existence away from school. i always feel weird about this. i feel like i am setting a bad example. it happened again last night, downtown, TWICE. it just makes me feel icky.