No, she's at a faculty meeting. -I just came by to pick up my skull.

她开教工会去了 -噢, 我过来想把我的头骨拿走。

Um, Mike left his keys at home today, and I've got a faculty meeting after school.

今天迈克把钥匙落在家里了，我放学以后还有教师会议要参加。

A dozen years ago, I was minding my own business teaching Economics 101 in Alexander Hall and thinking of good excuses for avoiding faculty meetings.

十几年前，我正在考虑自己在 Alexander Hall 教授经济学 101 的业务，并想着避免参加教职工会议的好借口。

The aha moment came to me at the end of a faculty meeting when my colleague, Elizabeth Dunn, approached me and asked, " Can we make climate action feel happy instead of miserable? "

某次校务会议结束时，我突然顿悟了，当时我的同事伊丽莎白·邓恩走近我，问道：“我们能让气候行动令人快乐而不是痛苦吗？”

If you feel you absolutely must lie, at least make it a huge flaming whopper of a lie, so the professor can get a good laugh when they share it at the next faculty meeting.

如果你觉得你一定要撒谎，至少要把它变成一个巨大的谎言，这样教授在下一次的教员会议上分享的时候就能得到一个好的笑声。