Office Hours

of·fice hours [aw-fis ou-erz] -noun

1. University required time for adjuncts to sit alone in the coffee shop: No one ever visits me during office hours!
2. An opportunity for adjunct professors to consume more caffeine than the Surgeon General recommends: My hands are always slightly jittery after office hours.
3. An excuse to blog: I wrote this post during office hours.
4. (rarely used) An occasion for face-time with students in a more private and less threating environment, so that they may share their questions, misgivings, and misunderstandings more openly than in class: Please see me during office hours if you have any further questions, misgivings or misunderstandings that you do not feel comfortable addressing in class.