Kayla and I were talking after class, our usual decompress session, and the fire alarm went off. It was a drill, and I'm pretty sure the occupants of the building flunked (taking too long to get out, staying too close to the building). It occurs to me this probably means I got a ticket for parking illegally out back, but oh well. It was actually rather pleasant to breathe real air for a few minutes, and now I'm getting ready to wrap up the day.
Class was awful. Pulling teeth would be a frolic by comparison. A lot of students were absent, and those who were there were mostly too insecure to even ask questions about the poetry. Still, I poked them through the three poems for this week, and we even got a moment to talk about the poem we'd left unfinished last week. I didn't go over their responses to the critical essays--but I did refer to the critical essays a few times in our discussion of the poems, so I hope that accomplished somewhat the same thing.
And I didn't issue any reminders about the papers that are due (first versions) on Monday. On the other hand, I gave them a chance to ask questions about the assignment, but they didn't ask, so ... moving on.
I managed to get all the work they submitted on Monday marked and back to them, which feels good. It's going to be a relatively easy few days in terms of marking assignments. I'll have the first big essays for both the literature classes--but there are so few students, even taking the two together, that I'm not terribly worried about the work load. And I'll have the study question responses I collected from 102 today--but that will be it. There is a lot of other stuff I need to tend to over the next few weeks (mostly for assessment, but other miscellaneous bits as well)--but I'm not going to worry about any of that until my health improves. I feel like La Dame aux Camellias, what with this tubercular sounding cough, but "Courage, Camille." Eventually I'll feel better, and that will be cause for celebration in itself.
There's more organizing and so on that I could ("should") do tonight, but I ain't gonna. I'm going to pick up my new glasses (replacing the pair I lost on my trip to Tucson) and go home. This has been enough for a first day back.
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