Face Front! Friday! I Like Your Lunchbox!

What are you known for?

I’m the guy with the lunchbox

This happened again yesterday and I love it!

Someone I’ve never seen before shouted out to me “Hey, I like your lunchbox!”

Yes, that’s me, greeted again by the “meal gaze” as I walk to my classroom. I’m the professor carrying his lunchbox from class to class.

Not for food, though.

It’s my teaching toolkit.

Inside: index cards, crayons, dry-erase markers (and hopefully an eraser), my clicker, a dongle, extra pens, and… a green Mold-A-Rama gorilla to remind everyone of the “gorilla in the room.” (Because there always is one. I bring it.)

Every semester, someone asks, “What’s for lunch?” And I reply, “Oh, this? Let me tell you about my lunchbox…”

There are worse things to be known for around campus, I guess.

So… what are YOU known for?

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