It's a frustrating afternoon of increasingly explicit emails at work. The campus has mostly emptied, the chair is at a meeting, and you and I can only think about one thing. That's the curse of being employed by the same institution as a professor and graduate student, respectively. Fucking circumspection. No fraternizing or else. And on Valentine's Day, too. There's only one thing either of us can think of on Valentine's Day.
You've already visited me in my office. I've visited you. You've visited me again. You were almost caught with your hand on my breast (and how nice that felt) as someone passed the door. Clearly we couldn't be trusted in public today. Clearly visits were out. That's when you mention room 433. No windows, you remind me. So you sign the room out via the head office, toting your camera and tripod ostentatiously, announcing your intention to film student interviews for possible later use in your sociology project. No one is in line to use the room, but better safe than sorry. I, meanwhile, am fiddling with the lock, setting it up to be locked on the outside, covering the rectangular window with a piece of newspaper and posting a DO NOT DISTURB: FILMING IN PROGRESS sign. With a little heart, to celebrate the holiday. When you try the door on the outside (making sure no one sees you going in with your tripod) we find the door indeed has locked. Good. I let you in. The lock clicks. No one has seen us go into the room. We're giggling like idiots.
I walk into your arms and kiss you. Oh, that feels wonderful after a day of frustration. Your hands are under my shirt, my hands are on your fly. Nothing has ever, ever felt so good. But then you begin to set up the tripod.
"What is it -- verisimilitude in case someone unlocks the door?" I ask, puzzled. "It won't matter at all if they've seen us."
You raise your eyebrow.
"Now, professor. I've said we're going to make a movie, and so we will. An important documentary about student-teacher relations. Close relations."
Your hand is down the front of my pants now, convincing me of your wisdom. Is the camera on? Jesus. Wait a minute.
"Remember that classroom scenario?" you ask, gently pushing me back against the wall. "The one we wrote together?"