The fellowship restricts us to quarter-time employment, ten hours a week. Except that readerships may end up paying more than that--quarter-time allows for thirty-five students, and I'll have sixty or sixty-five. There's all sorts of stupid administrative calculations behind this. The payroll person claims that I can take the job with sixty students even though it's technically too many hours, since readerships all go on the books as only being quarter-time. Or something. No one is sure what's going on.

At any rate, I do need to have some employment appointment even when I'm on fellowship, because the fellowship (in a gesture of astonishing stupidness (or poverty) on the part of the department) doesn't include my registration fees. Which run to over three thousand dollars per semester.