Yesterday I discovered that some teachers at my school think I don't work so much. One of them asked me whether I could teach an after-school computer class for the staff and I said I'd be happy to, if I could figure out when to schedule it. He found out about the 12 violin students I teach "on the side". He discovered that I actually have "plenty to do" and I'm not just leaving at 3:30 to go eat bonbons on the couch. I suppose I should have been horrified, but I actually thought his expression was sort of funny. It's never occurred to me to notice how much time everyone else spends at school (particularly since half of my work gets done at home anyway), but it seems that other people are used to keeping tabs on it.
I wrote to E. about it, answering some of her e-mail about assumptions people make about her. Told her that most people are going to assume things, and probably the best thing to do is to go along and let them assume things for as long as possible because then the moment of truth will be so much funnier. Then again, I'm weird.