You are almost not free if you are teaching a group of graduate students to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged just a friendship.
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention...
I loved my 17 years with R.E.M. but I'm ready to reflect assess and move on...
My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.