Chapter 19

David knew he ran pretty much on auto-pilot during the times he wasn’t with Bud. Classes seemed to fly by, his mind never totally focused on what was happening. But no one seemed to notice he wasn’t giving all of himself as he usually did. He still interacted with his students, trying to enthuse them into thejoys that lay ahead of them in the world of the sciences. He still attended meetings with fellow facultymembers. Then there were the usual after-school conferences with parents who wanted to know why their child wasn’t doing as well in school as they would have hoped.