Looking for Adventure
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Dear Readers,
As always, thank you for choosing to read one of my writings. I appreciate your support, love to read your comments, and hope you enjoy the read!
~Apple
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It never ceases to amaze me, even after six years of teaching university level courses, that at least one student will think they're smarter than you. In an age where universities and professors have software to scan papers and pick up on key words and plagiarized thought flow analysis, you would think they would stop stealing from people's works. But there's always one that tries each year, if not each semester.
Many may think the life of an academic is boring. Many are wrong. Life is anything but boring for me. I teach at a mid-sized, private university, where the students come from far above average incomes and often have less than average intelligence. This is especially true for many of those who utilize forms of plagiarism or copyright infringement, and think mommy and daddy will pay their way out of trouble.
However, that wasn't the case this time. In this particular case, the young woman in question was a student of high moral and ethical character. She had an excellent reputation with the faculty and, in general, was an all around star student. Of course, I didn't know all of that until after I identified the culprit.
She was a scholarship student working on her Master's degree and she worked as the student assistant to the Provost.
So, that evening, when I found Julia was the culprit behind the ruse, I was a little surprised and somewhat oddly pleased by the turn of events. By oddly pleased, I mean, there is always that spark that gets ignited in me when someone who is labeled as a good girl, does something bad, or at least naughty. It restores my faith in the balance of human nature, and to be truthful, it brings out the bad boy in me.
Of course, Julia went above and beyond at being naughty, just as she excels at being good. Again, to my surprise and pleasure. She did so well, if I were grading her, I'd have to give her extra credit for the way in which she went about it. And, because her naughty behavior wasn't acted out in a classroom or even on our own campus, I couldn't hold her accountable to the Board of Students, but I would hold her accountable in one way or another.
I had to be as creative with her as she was with her little set up. And, since I caught her 'stealing' some rather good lines, from a rather intelligent and well versed writer, ie: me, I felt that I had leeway on how I decided to handle the situation.
Also, I was very curious to find out what her reasons were behind her little game. It was a rather devious act to be committed by such a mild mannered, well behaved, and high achieving young woman and student. Maybe that's what most impressed me, at least at first.
Since it was my work she
borrowed,
and used for her devious plot, I felt it right and just that I was able to hold her answerable. And, in doing so, I was able to apply my rules to her actions and her punishment. And, my rules were very strict and came with equally strict punishments.
Looking back, the only error in Julia's plan was that she was under the belief that none of the faculty of our somewhat uppity university would be reading the local underground newspaper. She thought, and wrongfully so, that only the student body would respond to her ad.
Shame on her!
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Julia's ad was titled,
Looking for Adventure,
and was posted in the alternative lifestyle section of the small, but fairly well written underground paper, The Guardian Report. I'm not sure, but I may be the only professor who reads the Guardian. What I am sure of is that I'm definitely the only professor who has not only answered ads posted there, but has posted one or two of my own.
So, when I read the ad of a young woman who was, and I quote, "looking to be a naughty little school girl" and continued with "I'm a sapiosexual, who enjoys a large...vocabulary," I smiled. When I continued to read her ad, I realized, by her choice of meeting places, that she was most likely a student at the university. As I continued, I knew she was also a student of one of my classes. I knew this because she included part of an unpublished poem I read to my class earlier in the semester. A poem, I wrote.
Like a fallen angel
I want to accept the darkness
Like a flower's pedal
I want to fall open to you
The ad went on to describe the type of man she was interested in and what she wanted from him. I fit the look and intellect part of her request. And, as for her specific requests of how she wanted to meet and what she wanted done to her, well, like I said, my life is anything but boring. So, I responded to her ad.
My response was a little longer than I had expected, but I wanted to be thorough and make sure she knew exactly who she would be meeting and what she was getting into. I promised her that I could provide her with the scene she requested and then some.
Reading over my reply, I was happy with it. It read:
Dear Bibliophile,
I too am a lover of books and find myself lost in them often. So, we already have something in common. As a student of life, if not the university, I'm intellectually focused and more than able to carry on and maintain...
an intelligent conversation on a variety of subject matter
. I enjoy meeting new friends and exploring all sorts of things. Kink, as you put it, is one of my favorites to explore. Some would describe me as a guide of sorts.
I am particularly drawn to women who, as you described, "love the company of a strong, intelligent, dominant man, who knows how to be creative, take control, and direct the activities," all of which are characteristics and abilities I possess. Hence, the reference to being your guide.
As to requirements of being a "physically fit man or an athlete," I am fully mentally and physically fit, healthy, and enjoy an active lifestyle.
In addition to your stated requirements, you may be interested in knowing that I am very communicative, wildly creative, and extremely unconventional in all things. I would also use the term authentic, but I find it is overused and therefore, devalued.
My experience and skills include a complete curriculum of subjects and techniques that are able to cover the needs of introductory level activities through graduate course work. If you choose to take my course, I promise to aid you in exploring the outer bounds of your comfort zone and, if you're up for a challenge, possibly give you some advanced work for extra credit.
Sorry, at this time, I choose not to exchange pictures online. However, I'm willing to provide you with an accurate description of my physical appearance. I've been told that I'm relatively easy on the eyes. I'm 6'2", hover around 200-210 pounds, have dark brown eyes and hair. Although I'm not an athlete, I am athletic in build, and participate in sports activities. And yes, I do have a clean bill of health which I will bring proof of if you decide to contact me and set up a meet.
As an added bonus, I'm inherently sexually dominant and creatively imaginative in that area.
Looking forward to our potential encounter and making a new friend.
Typing in her coded ID number, I hit send and wondered which student was so daring as to post such an ad and include lines from my poem.
Julia was not at the top of my list. In fact, she wasn't on my list at all.
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Surprisingly, after I sent my response, I found myself somewhat excited about the chance to meet the little vixen bibliophile who was basically advertising for anonymous sex among the bookshelves of our sister university's library in the next town. The campus was about ten miles away and our students utilized both campus libraries, so I'd have to be careful if we met.
I checked my inbox more than a few times that day. Right before I went to bed, I checked it one last time...still nothing!
My subconscious got the better of me that night. My dream was all over the place. At one point, the entire female population of my classes was waiting in the bookstore when I arrived. One by one they cat called me as I walked through the aisles of books to the back of the library and took the spiral, iron staircase up to the second floor.
In another part of the dream, it was Bridget waiting for me. She was a little red redhead that sat in the front row of my English Lit class and always had one too many buttons undone on her blouse. She also dropped her pen a lot. Not that I noticed.
Right before I woke up, Ms. Hirsch, the biology instructor, was the woman waiting in the back of the second floor of the library. She kept asking me if I was up on my knowledge of female anatomy. I assured her that I was...then I woke.
I was thankful to finally wake up from what was a fitful night's sleep. The sun was barely peeking through my window when my alarm went off. Why does it always feel like seven a.m comes so much sooner when you sleep like shit the night before?
As I ground the fresh beans for the morning pot of coffee, I opened my laptop and signed in. While the water came to a boil, I decided to check my mail. There it was, a message from the Guardian Personal Ad section with her ID number.
I was in. She said she wanted to meet. This evening, at six-thirty.
My morning included a few student appointments during office hours, which ended at eleven. My first class was at noon, my second at two. So, I'd be back at home by late afternoon.
I was home by four and able to shower and change before leaving for my rendezvous at the library. I put on a freshly laundered, white, button up shirt and jeans. I tied up my Doc Martens and headed out for what I hoped would be an interesting few hours.
Arriving a little earlier than expected, I found a quiet corner in the back by the circular staircase and waited. I found it unusual that there was so much activity in the library on a Friday evening. Even more odd was that much of it was made up of young men, who based on the number of letterman jackets and sports jerseys, were obviously athletes.
Just how many offers to her ad did she accept?