#i can't quite tag ur blog but i hope it's okay if i moved it and our thread here!!

[clemencetaught]

@temporalobjects sent in: "happy birthday, prof! hope all your wet dreams come true!" Uta couldn't be bothered to write a card, so that message was just scrawled on a sticky note and stuck on a bottle of pretty expensive wine (an unwanted gift of course) which he left on Patrick's desk. (There was also cat hair stuck on the edge of the labels, since it was shedding season.) || a very very late birthday for the professor :'D ( late bday asks! )

He’s going to pretend that he didn’t read that second part ( because he definitely didn’t burn his tongue with fresh tea he just brewed ). When did Mister Utagawa learn about his birthday? It couldn’t have been from Dr. Ratliff- in all the years Patrick has worked with him, not once has the head of the Literature Department ever left a birthday message.

Speaking of which, the man in question is next door in Dr. Towell’s office. Patrick can hear him through the walls as he pontificates about the brilliance of Emerson and how students should be required to read his essays at least once while in the program...Patrick is inclined to disagree, but that’s not important right now.

Either way, Patrick peels the sticky note off ( it wouldn’t do for his students or co-worker to read that anyways ) and tucks it inside his desk. As for the bottle…well, that goes in his desk for now too. Maybe the next time Hyuk is over, they can drink it the next time they ditch whatever departmental party Dr. Ratliff forces Patrick to come to.

In the meanwhile though, Patrick pulls out his rainbow fountain pen and his fancy note paper. Maybe for once it’s a good thing Dr. Ratliff is next door with no sign of taking his leave.